Lucas Mitre @Lucas_Mitre_ Twitter profile

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

Once I understood this CRUCIAL difference between the USMLE STEPs, the process has become 5x easier to study 👇👇👇👇👇👇

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

1 year

Yesterday I received my STEP2ck score. What a journey it has been! I’m truly grateful for my family, friends, professors and mentors constantly supporting me along the way! My most sincere thank you. Ahead we go! @StoriesImg @ECFMG_IMG #usmle #step2ck

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 months

Final week of my sub-i here at @Yale Neurosurgery. Grateful for meeting one the most hardworking people in Medicine and learning daily from them when rounding, scrubbing, consulting… What a month! 🤓🧠🚀

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

I PASSED STEP 1!! Grateful for all the knowledge (far beyond medical contents only) and discipline developed! So happy for this achievement! 🚀🇺🇸 #MedTwitter #USMLE

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

Taking STEP1 tomorrow 🇺🇸🚀 Send good vibes! 🍀 #MedTwitter

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

Fatigue in the USMLE STEPs is REAL. 😪🥵 Here’s how it impacts your preparation 👇

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

3 months

Strong first day in my Neurosurgery Sub-internship at @YNeurosurgery , along with my co-sub-is, Sidharth and Sunny! From Brazil 🇧🇷 directly to Yale!

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

1 year

Taking STEP2ck TOMORROW! Send positive vibrations!! 🍀🍀🚀🚀 #USMLE #STEP2ck

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

A STEP 2CK study done on Reddit with over 500 participants who took the test revealed, shockingly, that: 😱 NEEDING A SCORE IS NEGATIVELY CORRELATED WITH ACHIEVING THE DESIRED SCORE on USMLE Self reminder: Focus on the process, not on the score!!!

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

24 days

Cheers to new beginnings! Home for this next 4-weeks during mu clerkship in Pain Medicine, focusing on Spinal disorders! Learning from a different perspective and enriching my path and interest in Neurosurgery 🧠 #MedEd #Neurosurgery

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

1 year

Today I got to meet HMS @harvardmed Campus. Such a dream come true! Anxious for the next steps! Thrilled!! @StoriesImg #MedSchool

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

1 year

Flying for my observer today! 🙏🚀🇧🇷🇺🇸 Boston here I come 🤩

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

1 year

My MedSchool has Hogwarty vibes and I LOVE it 😍😍😍

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

⚙️And here it is ⚙️ Step1: buzzwords X Step2: clinically educated guesses

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

1 year

Super happy that my TOEFL scores arrived today!! I met my personal goal, and with that, I can move forward to applying for neurological surgery clerkships/Sub-Is in 2024! @StoriesImg @ECFMG_IMG

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

I am in LOVE with the good-heart spirit brazilians have helping other brazilians in the USMLE journey. I really hope to pass this mindset ahead and create a more 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷-ish match!

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 months

I had a blast as a sub-i at Yale @YNeurosurgery and I’m truly grateful, you guys rock! Special thanks to Chief @AElsamadicyMD and all the Faculty for ensuring great academicism and mentorship throughout

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

@EM_RESUS Proximal LAD with mirror image in II, III and avF DO NOT USE (selective) BETA BLOCKERS, remaining cocaine may super activate alpha-receptors and worsen ischemia Benzos can be appropriate

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

I want to thank everyone who sent good vibrations and had their intentions with me today, while I was taking STEP1! You guys rock!! ❤️🙏🍀🤞 #MedTwitter #step1 #usmle

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

1 year

First time on a C-section on my OB/GYN sub-I: The attending speaks to the PGY1: “which suture is yours and which is the medstudent’s? I can’t tell! You guys are doing great” Core memory formed 🥹❤️

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

7 months

What a better way to start the day? Reaching 50 citations as a senior medical student! Happy to have reached this milestone and contribute early on to the progress of science! 🚀 #MedEd #Neurosurgery

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 months

I’m back! 🇧🇷🚀🇺🇸 Sub-i season has been great so far, now it’s time to tackle and complete my home sub-i in Neurosurgery! 6 years in, and my MedSchool aka the Brazilian Hogwarts looks pretty as usual! #MedEd #Neurosurgery #USMLE

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

It took me a gear-switch to deal with STEP2 practice questions better! Do not become attached to typical cases and scenarios! Please share the knowledge! #MedTwitter #MedEd #USMLE 🚀🚀🚀

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

1 year

Gone too soon, Rafa 😢🖤 Your dedication and hardworking character will live through and keep inspiring 🙏

Isadora Mathias, MD

@IsaMathiasMD

1 year

Heartbroken with the premature loss of my brilliant friend @Rafameed . Rafa was only 31, he had just matched in IM at @CUInternalMed - his dream program. He grew up in Brazil, son of a tailor and a vendor, who worked hard to give him good education. He beat all the odds (cont)

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

1 year

Turned 22 yesterday; spent the day in one of THE most unique ways possible: On a 12h shift in my OB/GYN rotation! I got to see 2 deliveries on the exact same day as my birthday. Mind blowing! 😱 Super happy and grateful for this year and for the journey 😍❤️

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

1 year

I wanna thank everybody who wished a great exam and had their intentions with me yesterday! It helped a lot when I had only good thoughts in mind! #MedTwitter , you rock 🎸 🤘 🍀❤️

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

👇 The best fitting and most probable answer is the RIGHT one, even though it does not match 100% de typical case/buzzwords! 👇

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

6 months

My father has been an assistant surgeon for 30 years in the hospital I have the privilege of being a med student. Today, during our morning 12km walk, I’ve listened to his legendary surgical stories 🚀 Surgeon-Future Surgeon combo! #MedEd @StoriesImg

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

I literally have two moods while doing UW 🤩😎😍/ 😡🤯🥸

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

3 months

Yesterday was my birthday and my day off, got to enjoy running 5 miles, breakfast brunch with 🇧🇷 friends and classic New Haven pizza with some of the amazing people I met in my Neurosurgery Sub-I at Yale!! So blessed 🙏🥳🇺🇸

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

1 year

Harvard’s Widener Library 🥹🥹🥹

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

@AaronGoodman33 I like to think in a Venn diagram for this, tricky! Mesothelioma overlaps less with lung cancer, but the area overlapped is bigger than the area overlapped with mesothelioma!

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

1 year

My 3 skins as MedStudent 😂 Academic, Clinician and Scrubs! Which one do you prefer? #MedStudent

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

8 months

Life in the ICU lately! Running labs and doing medstudents chores in this ASTOUNDING hospital makes me so grateful 😍 #proudmedstudent

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

1 year

I am so happy and blessed to be doing what I truly love. Keep up the hard work, I promise the reward awaits! 🥹❤️ From: MedStudent and Future Surgeon, currently on Surgery Rotation 🔪

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

7 months

@PeterMLawrence1 @OGdukeneurosurg Your sketches remind me of Lilly Ebstein’s!! These are from 1920s and are currently exhibited in my alma mater’s museum 😍 Nice job!!

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

6 months

Completed my first month of 100% streak in neurosurgery flashcards on Anki. Preparation for my NSGY Sub-I is going according to plan! #MedEd #IMG @StoriesImg

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

@AaronGoodman33 Amyloidosis! Rouleaux formation, macroglossia, green apple refringence, red coloration on Congo Red, low voltage QRS on EKG (due to restrictive cardiomyopathy)

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

5 months

Hey #NSGYtwitter ! Foreign medical student here going to my first elective: a sub-i in neurosurgery in the 🇺🇸! Any insights from the attending/resident POV? Thank you!!

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

1 year

Reviewing all the antibiotics spectrum of action, by memory, on chalk. One of my favorite exercises whenever I have 15’ mins to spare between internship activities. Powered by Anki.

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

In the holidays, I have significantly reduced my anki workload and RESTED 😴😴😴 The result: 10% boost in efficiency and scoring, and I’m learning way better and enjoying the process

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

@BrownJHM Moon-shaped parasites, sign of T. Gondii! Treat with sulfadiazine+pyrimethamine (careful in pregnants, sulfa—> spiramycin)

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

I experienced fatigue in the process as: (1) mental exhaustion (2) physical exhaustion While (2) definitely makes it harder to study, (1) is the real challenge and blocks you from scoring high and learning from mistakes

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

6 months

Super thrilled to have co-authored and managed this study, now accepted on Neurosurgical Review! A collaboration with high impact researchers from @FMUSPoficial , @BarrowNeuro to advance the reporting systematics on AVM surgery! Ahead we go! 🧠🚀

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

1 year

Just presented my experience with the USMLE-STEPs as an IMG for medical students and urologists, at the Brazilian Society of Urology ( @sbuoficial ) continued medical education program for academic- PEDAU! So happy for the opportunity to pay it forward! #img #MedEd

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

@OGdukeneurosurg Mammillary bodies: watch out for injury in those who are alcoholics! This may precipitate Wernicke encephalopathy!

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

1 year

My mornings with her: HMS! 😍😍😍

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

REST is REAL and needs to be part of the process, #MedTwitter ! #usmle #fatigue

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

7 months

Happy easter!! Early 12k, ensued by great food around my loved ones! #Easter #Running #MedEd

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

@izadoramed Quick pass on NBME high-yield images doc and FA rapid review section and… REST!!! Being well rested maked a total difference! Go for it, rooting for you! 🍀🍀🍀

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

This is specially true in STEP2ck: 👇 Questions are WAY more clinical thinking oriented, and mental reasoning should be as SHARP as possible

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

@DrStevenTChen Pyoderma gangrenosum, as many said. A neutrophilic dermatosis, but the most important: LEAVE THE SKIN ALONE! Touching may worsen

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

So proud of our work on muscle stem cell therapeutical approaches to mitigate fibrosis in #msk injury! Thrilled to present at @FCMSCSP Academic Medical Congress 🤩 @ROBERTASESSA #ScientificResearch #medtwitter #Poster #fibrosis @CellStemCell

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

11 months

Heading to @sbuoficial annual congress… as a speaker! This time, talking about flashcards and how to study effectively as a MedStudent! #MedEd @StoriesImg

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

I love how this time-lapse of me taking some photos on fluorescence microscope turned out! I was so focused 🤓

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

What are some high-yield tips for the last month of STEP2ck preparation? . Help a med student here! 🍀🚀 @StoriesImg @ECFMG_IMG @imgsforimgs

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

3 months

Thrilled to share that 14 out of 14 submitted abstracts were approved to be presented on @CNS_Update Conference! Posters, Mini Oral podiums and many more to come! 🤝🦾🚀🧠

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

In between patients, I always make sure to appreciate the view from the wards 🥰 It’s feels like a reset and help me focus better! 😊🤓

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

When preparing for STEP2ck, I feel it is *so much more* than medicine itself! It’s about endurance, stamina, grit, discipline 🔥 #MedTwitter #USMLE

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

Took my 2nd NBME form today and beat my goal 🙏🚀, STEP1 in 2 weeks. #MedTwitter please share tips on reviewing high-yield content for this final sprint!! #USMLE

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

I really worked hard to be here 📝 I’m blessed to appreciate the view every time I’m crossing through the wards! 🥹🙏 #medtwitter #blessed

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

And I just found out today, when doing UW block totally without thinking about the percentage, I got my best 1st pass score ever 🥹 The psychological impact is so true! 😨

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

Just became a patient myself this past week, right in the midst of my core clinical rotations. It’s given me a whole new level of empathy for the patients I’m seeing every day. #PatientExperience #empathy #medstudent

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

When a bit of sadness was trying to kick in today, I remembered myself why am I here and how far I’ve come! Not an easy meditation, but a necessary one!

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

21 days

10k Central Park run to end my first week at @Cornell ! 1/4 weeks done, thrilled for the rest of this clerkship!

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

3 months

This is what prep for my Neurosurgery Sub-i is looking like! Anki for the win. Any additional tips for a sub-i to shine, #NeuroTwitter ? @StoriesImg @CNS_Update

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

Discipline is literally doing things when you don’t feel like it. Today I have experienced what discipline is all about!

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

UW for STEP 2ck 1/180 ✅ Here we go! #MedTwitter

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

@AaronGoodman33 @sanamloghavi Stretch the back! If it turns white, it is versicolor! This is called Zirelí’s sign and we Brazilians are proud of it! It’s specific and handy for diagnosis!!

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

7 months

Super happy to have presented at @SNOLAsociety , and more happy to do so along my amazing mentors! @fabiomoraesmd @marciorassi #MedEd #Neurosurgery #IMGStories

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

@camila_tedeschi My personal take: set a goal score for your UWSA1 at the end of 1st pass. If you beat that score, go ahead and schedule your elegibility period starting 3 months in the future (or at the end of 2nd pass). 2 NBMEs showing 99% passing confirms you are ready 2 go!

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

1 year

Leaving Boston today! Feeling grateful and happy for the past 35 days at @BWHNeurosurgery 🧠🧠🧠 🇧🇷 here we go!

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

I am so satisfied with my finishing celebration at the 10k run! We made to 10k, now to 15k and beyond !

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

Only I feel that UW for STEP2 blocks are waaaaay to variable? 😫 One day I’m riding high and the next my score drops like a waterfall 🧐 #MedTwitter

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

How my holiday (here in Brazil) started: early mentoring focused on step1! Let’s go! 🚀🔥 #MedTwitter

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

@OGdukeneurosurg MedStudent 🙋‍♂️ here (NOT a surgeon, yet) My record was 7h I was up from 7am to 3pm, it was a CABG I remember what my feet felt like 😫

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

On STEP2 questions, 90% of the time you DON’T need to expose a child/pregnant mom to radiation If you marked CT as the best, reconsider #MedTwitter

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

Hey there, #MedTwitter ! Time to reintroduce myself, now with a new #profilepic ! I’m Lucas, a 4th year Medical Student at @FCMSCSP (the >100y/o bricks you see here!) I’m passionate about #SurgEd and tissue engineering; looking forward to connect with fellow students and mentors!

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

9 days

Third week done ✅ at @WeillCornell One more to go!

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

Had the opportunity to mentor two med students today on the journey to the USMLE Grateful for being able to create value for others and pay it forward! #MedTwitter 🇺🇸🚀🙏

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

@AaronGoodman33 GET GAP on the METRO Giardia Entamoeba Trichimonas Gardnerella Anaerobes Pylori (H.) Tx with Metronidazole!

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

I’m so happy! Our poster on muscle spheroids delivery for mitigating #msk fibrosis was awarded with First Place at Santa Casa de São Paulo Academic Medical Congress! @FCMSCSP Excited to spread the word on engaging in scientific research while still a med student! #MedTwitter

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

This is so cool!!

Yeonsoo Sara Lee, MD

@ysaralee

2 years

Studying for my ob/gyn shelf tomorrow - my last day of clerkships in 2022! & per usual, made a study guide of things learned over the past 6 weeks. I enjoyed ob/gyn - it combined some of my passions (women's health, longitudinal pt care, surgery). Looking forward to the holidays!

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

8 months

Thrilled to share: 4 approved abstracts for @SNOLAsociety 2024! Happy to collaborate, learn from mentors, and put the knowledge to work! #Neurosurgery #MedEd @LuccaBPalavani @marciorassi @saviobatista360 @fabiomoraesmd

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

What a great experience this conference has been! Attended lectures, met amazing professionals and got to know more about the specialty! Even became a member of the @AmerUrological @sbuoficial @sbusp_oficial @urolosoc

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

Couldn’t be happier receiving the award as the best undergrad research student presentation at IV Congress of Chemical Biology at @unifesp ! 🙏🥹

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

1 year

Taking pics in white coat? Nah, just assessing my pupillary reflexes and Cranial Nerve VII function while documenting the evidence on camera 🤓 #medstudent

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

I have a deep passion for surgery, but I’m so undecided on which area to focus on! #MedTwitter please share some insights on the medical-carreer thought process!

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

1 year

Less than 20 days for my STEP2ck! Any last-sprint tips, #MedTwitter ? #STEP2ck #USMLE

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

1 year

My first All-American 4th of July! So much more special during my month of observership at @BWHNeurosurgery So grateful for this experience 🥹❤️

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

1 year

Amazing opportunity working with @IsabeleMiyawaki and @fabiomoraesmd to unravel more on disparities of lung cancer trials!! Ahead we go, thank you so much! 🫁🦾🚀

Isabele A. Miyawaki

@IsabeleMiyawaki

1 year

Our ASCO abstract got published in the JCO Supplement! Huge thanks to @Lucas_Mitre_ and @fabiomoraesmd !🙌 #MedTwitter #oncology #ASCO23 #ASCO2023

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

1 year

Gotta love the surgical way of life 🔪

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

Early birds get the…ermm… UW block done early? #MedTwitter

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

Remember this tweet? I actually diagnosed one case of Pityriasis versicolor in front of all ID residents this Friday, and it felt AWESOME! I got to teach some wonderful 3rd year medical students, super nice #MedEd moment! 🥹😁😊

Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

@AaronGoodman33 @sanamloghavi Stretch the back! If it turns white, it is versicolor! This is called Zirelí’s sign and we Brazilians are proud of it! It’s specific and handy for diagnosis!!

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

2 years

Through some basic level programming, now my Anki talks! What should I name my newest buddy? 🤣 He’s gonna be reading cards for hours and hoooours #MedTwitter #anki

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

8 months

Such a curious strange feeling! Today in Brazil all the PGYs transition to the next year, and here I am! Jotting down and improving on my personal statement for the clerkship applications! #MedEd #Neurosurgery

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Lucas Mitre

@Lucas_Mitre_

8 months

Hey #MedTwitter , I’m happy to announce that I have successfully completed and certified in @AmericanHeartMA Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)! With my own ACLS Id and everything 🥹😍