Sean Dreyer MD 🎮🎹
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Spinal Cord Injury & PM&R. @UCBerkeley » @dgsomUCLA » @NorthwesternPMR » @Stanford » @RanchoRehab. Farsi fluent. Smash Melee (Falco). Be kind to trainees!
Joined January 2011
Tired of your AirPods getting stolen at the hospital?. 📟Introducing the PagerCase™️. Because nobody wants to carry another pager lol
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How to identify a physician in the hospital in 2024:
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During med school OSCE exams, I found the camera in the room, and made intense eye contact in between cases. I got permission to get that footage and was not disappointed. #MedTwitter
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This was my shower 2 weeks before taking the Step 1 medical board exam. Peak mental health lol. #Wellness #MedTwitter #MedStudentTwitter
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What medical word did you butcher until someone corrected you?. As an intern I pronounced Golytely "golly telly" and rounds halted for the team to laugh.
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The year is 2024. > You are a resident. > Your med student is at critical levels of lazy. They also have 400,000 TikTok followers. > They BLACKMAIL you into writing a good eval, or else they’ll make a scathing TikTok video about you. ????
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An unintended side effect of medical training is accumulating names like this in your phone contacts:. - Alex Surgery.- Pharmacy Joe.- Elise Resident.- Tall med student.
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Med students who matched into Neurosurgery had THIRTY SEVEN pubs/presentations on average??. This research arms race to match into residency is getting wild. It rewards students with enough financial support to take a gap year during med school.
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🧵Interview pearl thread🧵. How to handle ANY "Tell me about a time when" interview question. 🚨If you have med school/residency/fellowship interviews coming up. this is for you #medtwitter ⤵️.
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Applying for residency?. I've read tons of statements over the years, and while I don't claim to be an expert and am early career, there is ONE CONSISTENT AREA FOR IMPROVEMENT that I see time and time again. 🧵 A short thread of unsolicited advice. .
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Remember Dr. Goljan, who did the Step board review & audio lectures we all used? . Apparently he's ripped and arm wrestles lol not at all what I pictured in my head 🤯
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Best Reddit post I’ve seen all week. I want to meet this Radiologist
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To all med students and residents: . Make fitness a PRIORITY, even through the stresses of training. There is no point in grinding to earn money and prestige if physical/mental deterioration prevents you from enjoying it.
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As a Residency Program Director — you could get into my program in one of two ways:. 1) Great evaluations, letters of rec, volunteerism, test scores, research, blah blah (🥱😴). OR . 2) Best me in a best-of-five in Super Smash Bros Melee™️ (💯🔥)
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Ordering lunch with your first Attending Physician paycheck after a decade of medical training:
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If you're a med student who somehow ended up on my page, please never hesitate to DM me about PM&R, residency applications, whatever. It never bugs me, and I was just you, not too long ago.
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My last day of fellowship. Feel like I’ve been riding a bicycle with training wheels for 33 years and today they come off.
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Med students doing interviews!. I recommend making 2-4 bullet points for:. - Tell me about yourself.- Why this specialty.- Why our program.- Where do you see yourself in 5/10/20 years. Even if you panic, it's easy to recall a few bullets to get back on track.
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>Placed Urology consult today. >The nicest/bro-iest PGY3 resident calls me back. >Uro Bro: Dude did you go to UCLA med btw?. >Me: Yeah why?. >Uro Bro: Aw man that block 5 review you led was solid, crushed that test because of it!. It’s all coming full circle now 😂.
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Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone in a toxic relationship with this:
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Another gold moment from an old OSCE:. Looked up the Standardized Patient’s nose with my otoscope… but the speculum didn’t come out with it. This is me going back to pull it out lmao. DON’T LOSE HOPE FUTURE DOCTORS!
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I GOT A JOB! . I'll be an attending physician at @RanchoRehab.✅ Academic hospital.✅ Inpatient Spinal Cord Injury.✅ Close to family. Thanks to my family and mentors who helped me all along the way. Light at the end of a 10-year training tunnel.
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How long after residency do you feel comfortable calling your prior attendings by their first name? I still can’t do it.
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Look at the JOY on the face of this Vet with spinal cord injury – playing Mario Kart! . "I haven't driven in years!". He's participating in my new study testing this ADAPTIVE CONTROLLER setup in SCI🕹. @StackUpDotOrg & @art_is_war graciously donated everything, thank you❤️
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TikTok ban was shorter than the turnaround time for a STAT lab.
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English: .Can I go home? . Spanish: .¿Puedo ir a casa? . Med student: .Anything else can I help with?.
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Knew I wanted to be a Program Director since I was in med school. It’ll take a while but when I get there, I’m quoting this tweet!.
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#MedStudents, if your step score isn’t what you hoped, it does NOT reflect on how intelligent, capable, or competent you’ll be as a physician. At least in our specialty (but prob most others), we care about your whole story / big picture, so don’t get discouraged.
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If you need a Private Investigator, just ask an Infectious Disease doc to write an H&P.
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🧑🦼Spinal Cord Injury tech feature:. THIS WHEELCHAIR STANDS UP AND GOES UP STAIRS! (wait until the end). I got to test out the #iBot wheelchair today, which uses tech that later gave birth to the Segway. So cool. #Physiatry #SCI
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Today a patient with spinal cord injury showed me the coolest thing:. This huge modded truck (with a custom gull-wing door) FULLY LIFTS him in/out. One of the best parts of spinal cord injury medicine is seeing people find ways to do (and drive) what they want.
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Made this. You’re welcome. ᶜ⁵ ͟⸜ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ₘc.ᶜ⁶ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟╳__⸑৴ ᴬ ╲ ͟ ₘ.ᶜ⁷ ╱ ֨ᐠ ᴿ ╱.ᶜ⁸ ︦ᐟ ︦ ︦ ︦ ︦ ︦ ︦ ︦ ︦ ︦ ︦ ︦ ︦ ︦ ︦ ︦ ︦︦ ︦ ︦ ︦ ︦ ︦ ︦ ︦ ᵁ. ᵀ¹.
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Also I swear to god if I hear another med student introduce themself as “JUST a med student” I will lose my mind🤯. You are a $&@! STUDENT OF MEDICINE, you’re important, the future, and it’s fun to meet you all because we’ll be seeing you in our field for years to come. 🎤⬇️.
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Can we all appreciate the bottom left expression please.
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Let me share my ✨highly advanced✨ secrets to remembering key dermatomes:. T4 – nipple level – "4-play".T10 – umbilicus level – "belly but-TEN".L3 – knee level – "knƐƐ". Courtesy of your local Spinal Cord Injury fellow lol👍
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If you had this in your workroom would it make you feel any better?
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Being an Attending is cool, but there’s something about being a student and a resident that I miss. Joking around in the resident room, focusing on learning, complaining about dumb stuff. Felt like a fun (and sometimes exhausting) sitcom.
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Pretty cool — this model shows you which muscle the needle is in. Great for practicing botulinum injections into those deep leg muscles.
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Going to @Stanford for fellowship in Spinal Cord Injury!! 😍 Of course, I will always be a @UCBerkeley guy at heart ;) #Physiatry #SpinalCordInjury
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Hi #MedTwitter!. My name is Justin, I’m a rising MS4 excited to be applying to Internal Medicine!. A bit about me — I love:.🎤 Singing.🍾 A good brunch spot.🔥 Bringing sexy back. Look forward to seeing you on the interview trail soon!. #Match2025.#MedStudentTwitter
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For the record: I knew it was ridiculous, I slept plenty, worked out regularly, and took many study breaks. I am doing fine to this day lol.
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The key🔑 — ask yourself: what did that experience evoke in me? How did it give me purpose? How did it change me?. If that's not there, it's lost opportunity. » So: Focus less on describing your observations, and more on what YOU did and how it impacted YOU.
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Reflections upon finishing residency:. 1) Wished I asked more questions. Still didn’t sometimes bc didn’t want to seem dumb. 2) Start using eye cream sooner lol. 3) Getting a second monitor is OP. 4) Choose a residency where everyone sorely misses the class that just graduated.
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Me on stage with 4 leaders in our field . vs. How it felt for me to be on stage with 4 leaders in our field
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You know how when several nurses can't get a foley in, then Urology gets paged to help. What does Urology do differently? Just want to know/learn the tricks. #UrologyTwitter #Urology someone?.
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My Program Director asked me for a list of everything I want to do/see in fellowship — and ONE-BY-ONE told me who he’s going to contact to arrange for every single item 🥹. This is something I won’t forget, and will try to carry forward myself, one day if (🤞when) I’m a PD.
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WHAT IS THE PROTOCOL FOR POSTER PRESENTATIONS?. Do you stand by your poster the whole time…. Do you abandon your post to browse other posters…. Do you present to your neighbor who are also standing there…?.
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Metals that cause constipation? .Think "Fecal":.- Fe (iron).- Ca (calcium).- Al (aluminum). #MedEd at its finest lol.
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No matter how many times I think, "This is the last time I have to know developmental milestones". It keeps coming back. - Peds shelf exam.- Step 1.- Step 2.- Step 3.- PM&R written boards.- PM&R oral boards.- . fatherhood?.
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Why NRMP's match algorithm takes like 20 seconds to match applicants to programs, but results are released 2 weeks later
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📢If PM&R match didn't work out this round, YOUR STORY IS NOT OVER!. These kind/generous people offered help, and my DMs are open as well. - @tqswaid .- @Renatomartinjr .- @ZachGulergunMD .- @DrNick_DO . Proud of you all, regardless of match❤️. #Physiatry #Match2024 #SOAP2024.
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Patients kept calling me “Dr. Geffen” because of my UCLA jacket (David Geffen School of Medicine). So I got my name embroidered ⬇️. Now, patients still call me Dr. Geffen. Cool👌
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Day 1 of Fellowship with @MarlaPetriello . WE GET AN OFFICE (with a view), this is very exciting for me lol
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My last post before I'm an attending:. Don't forget what it felt like being a student and a resident. My goal is to never lose that perspective.
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Somehow even if a 4-day workweek became a thing, I don’t think it would reach Physicians…
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It’s crazy how pregnant women work while nauseated, exhausted, and in pain… . but then still get pushback about taking time away from work??. Tbh I never fully appreciated how crazy/difficult this is until my wife went through this now.
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TL;DR — it’s a shame to read one page and feel like I didn’t learn about whoever wrote it, but rather had my field described to me. Never forget to integrate yourself into the statement, so I see how every experience shaped YOUR character and goals.
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I want to showcase who we PM&R/Physiatrists are as doctors. and humans. Introducing "Reflux & Reflexes," featuring research powerhouse @PJayabalanMDPhD for the first episode of SPICY wings & questions. We have a lot of heart in PM&R. Enjoy, it's funny.
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“Hello there!”. My patients got Dr. Obi-Wan Kenobi today :D
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Reminding med students:.✅Rank where you WANT to go first.❌Not where you THINK you'll have the best shot.
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Also what’s going on with Pediatrics??. 3x more pubs/presentations for those who DIDN’T match?
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*Ahem*.I've been retweeted by @DGlaucomflecken, and thus now elevating my brand. Please refer to me as The Doctor Formerly Known As Sean Dreyer. I will be taking no further questions at this time. Thank you.💅🏻
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@Kamran__Zahoor I hope you know that this is Perceptor, the transformer. Perhaps you were asking them to transform lol
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THIS is why I'm doing Spinal Cord Injury. » Epidural electrical stimulator, using a new arrangement of electrodes. WITHIN A SINGLE DAY of the implant, patients with COMPLETE spinal cord injury were walking. !!!!. Below: Michel Roccati💪. #Physiatry
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Cool to see people getting residency interview invites, but don’t let Twitter cause stress if you’re not. Remember, you’ll see a disproportionate amount of “positive news” posts here, but most who are waiting on interviews or getting rejections are prob not posting about that.
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Another cool tech feature seen in Spinal Cord Injury. SmartDrive attaches to the back of the wheelchair and drives with a few taps of the wrist, using a special watch. 2 taps: accelerate💨.1 tap: set cruise speed👨🦽.2 taps: stop🛑. Saves shoulders from getting worn out! #physiatry
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Anecdotes:.Meaningful anecdotes are great but don’t stop there — say how it IMPACTED you. Tie it together by explaining how it SHAPED what kind of physician you want to be, and how this field decisively delivers ✨that✨ quality that resonated with you from your experience.
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Trying something new. Here's a 1-MIN summary of incredible data. 👉This is how COVID pts (n=233!) do in rehab, compared to general rehab pts.👉Which socioeconomic factors impact their recovery. Presenting this week at @AAPhysiatrists #Physiatry #Physiatry22 (PI: @pjayabalanMDPhD)
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And no I don’t just mean how it shaped your specialty choice — can say how it shaped your teaching style/goals👩🏫, how you connect with patients💕, research goals🔬, population you want to serve👥, advocacy goals🪧, etc. ^^ Lots of options to stand out!.
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Took my last/final subspecialty board exam at the *same* testing center where I first took my MCAT… 12 years ago!. I have many more white hairs, but glad I did it all (also glad it’s done).
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Best part of #Physiatry22 was meeting so many med students. 3x more med students this year!! Future is bright.
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A wonderful student just gave this to me on her last day. A spine pun… I couldn’t be more proud 🥲
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Med students who I follow – I hope you continue to stay active on Twitter after Match. I want to see where you go, what you end up accomplishing, and maybe work together down the line. #match2022.
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#MedTwitter.If you discover a new pathology, please don't be like Sinding-Larson, Johansson, Osgood, or Schlatter. Be like whoever mercifully named "patellar tendinopathy" — an anonymous hero of medicine making boards studying easier for us all 🍻
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@NDAcademic @DGlaucomflecken Honestly thought they were both Dr. Glaucomflecken until I read the text.
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