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/r/MedicalSchool. /r/medicalschool is an international community for medical students Founded 2009 · 812.8K members

813.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 30.2K upvotes, which works out to 37 per 1,000 members.

37peak upvotes per 1,000 members
813.7Kmembers
30.2Kbest post
2Kmost comments
883posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

50% 29% 17%
Text 50% Question 29% Image 17% Video 2% Link 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

🥼 Residency 289 🏥 Clinical 130 ❗️Serious 68 📚 Preclinical 68 😡 Vent 66 🤡 Meme 60 💩 Shitpost 56 😊 Well-Being 38 Meme 27 🔬Research 19

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Nurse Called Security on Me

↑ 30.2K 💬 2K text 2021

Change the culture

↑ 23.1K 💬 371 video 2021

My Frontal Lobe: I don't fell so good

↑ 12.4K 💬 192 image 2021

Just a reminder to make sure you keep your relationship with your patients professional

↑ 11.5K 💬 174 text 2018

[Meme] First day on a paeds rotation

↑ 9.5K 💬 259 image 2020

This is the last Pikachu [meme] I promise

↑ 8K 💬 82 image 2019

[shitpost] Next year’s batch of med school personal statements

↑ 7.8K 💬 134 image 2020

[shitpost] Me trying to find the ortho resident I worked with

↑ 7.3K 💬 167 image 2020

NOOOOO

↑ 6.9K 💬 212 video 2021

[News]Bernie on Medical School Debt

↑ 6.4K 💬 350 image 2020

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/medicalschool, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/medicalschool?
r/medicalschool ("/r/MedicalSchool") describes itself this way: /r/medicalschool is an international community for medical students. It was founded in 2009 and has 812.8K members.
How many members does r/medicalschool have?
r/medicalschool has about 813.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 883 of its posts; the biggest reached 30.2K upvotes, which is 37 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/medicalschool?
"Nurse Called Security on Me" reached 30.2K upvotes and 2K comments in 2021, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/medicalschool.
What subreddits are similar to r/medicalschool?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology.
What kind of posts do best on r/medicalschool?
Of the posts we hold, 50% are text posts and 29% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/medicalschool?
Across 883 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 00:00 UTC (6.8K avg upvotes), Saturday at 16:00 UTC (6.1K avg upvotes), Saturday at 15:00 UTC (4.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/medicalschool?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/medicalschool has 5.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 304 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/medicalschool, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.