Want to go to MED SCHOOL? Watch this First!
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- Опубліковано 10 тра 2023
- Dr. Christy shares her personal story of how she became a physician when she speaks to a High School Biology class.
Post Baccalaureate Pre-Medical Program at Bryn Mawr College:
www.brynmawr.edu/postbac/abou...
I appreciate eternal values fleshed out in practical ways being modeled and taught to the next generation. Thank you for all your videos, Dr. Christy- they are always practical.
❤This is great for HS Boys & Girls to hear your path! Great work Dr Christy!
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Thanks for such an encouraging video for students to consider. May the Lord bless you for blessing others! I'd only add:
1. You don't necessarily need to do a post-bacc program, but you can take the premed prerequisites on your own, research how to get into med school on your own, etc. Generally it's much cheaper this way. However, post-bacc programs are super helpful in terms of networking and of course if the post-bacc program has a relationship with med schools (as Christy points out) then that could really help you get into a med school if you maintain a high GPA, etc.
2. Generally speaking, it's nearly impossible to transfer med schools nowadays. Even for engaged couples or married couples living far apart. The only time I've heard about it happening is due to wishing to spend time caring for a parent who was dying. Of course, one can only try, and some med schools are more considerate than others so maybe it'd work out for you, but the general assumption should be "it's extremely difficult".
3. For current compensation for family medicine (FM) and internal medicine (IM), I'd say offers for primarily outpatient (full-time is 4.5 days per week, say something like Mon-Thurs and a half day on Friday, no nights, no weekends, no holidays, minimal call and almost always from home) for around $225k-$275k guaranteed for the first 2 years, plus productivity, and often plus many other things like help with student loan repayment, moving/relocation costs, etc. After 2 years, many places offer switch to full productivity, which can bump it up into $300k+ fairly easily. I'd say $300k+ is easily attainable as FM/IM in outpatient primary care. I know of others who make significantly more with similar life/work balance (e.g. by being more efficient in billing, picking up side gigs like urgent care shift or even hospitalist shift for a weekend per month, telemedicine).
4. There are many other options in addition to outpatient clinic (e.g. hospitalist which can be very lucrative but very taxing too; fellowship options in both FM and IM but IM fellowships more clearly can radically change one's practice, compensation, lifestyle, etc.).
5. Just out of curiosity, Dr. Risinger, would you have chosen FM instead of IM if you knew you'd end up as a primary care physician? For example, FM offers more outpatient procedures (e.g. joint injections, casting/splinting, I&Ds, laceration repair suturing, colposcopy, nail avulsions, various derm procedures, colposcopy, LEEPs). At least in my experience, IM (even IM primary care track) tends to get limited outpatient or office procedures (though IM tends to get more inpatient procedures), whereas these procedures seem to be built into most FM residency programs. But to be fair many of these procedures can be learned after residency too (e.g. CME workshops; talk to a specialist who is willing to teach you). Maybe something students can consider.
Excellent. Thanks for sharing
Been watching your videos since the beginning of the pandemic. Really enjoyed this talk. My grandfather was a doctor and surgeon and didn't go to med school until he was 35 in the 1920s. He had had a previous career as a teacher, principal, and superintendent in a small town. He became a single dad of a newborn after his wife died in the 1918 flu, and I always thought that had something to do with his change of career at a later age. When I was in college, I started on a pre-med path. We had to talk with career counselors in sophomore year. My counselor said, "Now why would you want to be a doctor? It's so boring. It's the same colds, the same rashes every day. You need something more stimulating. What about the Internet?" (The Internet was in its infancy.) So I interpreted that as though she knew something about me that I didn't know myself, and I switched to engineering and have been in that field for 25 years. The whole time I wondered what if I had stayed on the path to become a doctor. My friends tell me I would be a better pediatrician than what I do now, which is very dry and technical and impersonal. How late is too late to switch? :) (As a footnote, my grandfather, whom I and my siblings never knew, was responsible for putting me and all of my siblings through college because he was frugal and left it all to my mom, who was also frugal and decided to spend it on having and educating a big family.)
It’s never too late!
I love this, she is so down to earth, and has a good Spirit in Christ! Thanks for sharing your story! I wonder what specific post-bac programs that don't require taking the MCAT.
Such a delight to hear your story. The still small voice within you eventually overcame your doubts and fears. So few know how to listen rather than speak.
Thanks Doctor.
You are awesome!! I'm happy I found a christian doctor on youtube!!
Probably my favorite video! Thanks for sharing!
Even though I've heard this story before, I loved watching this and thinking what an incredible impact you must have had on those students!!!!!!!!!! What an inspiration :)
Thank you so much for sharing
As a retired educator I must tell you, this impressed me so much! You impacted lives with that talk. I guarantee it. ❤
Thank you so much. I appreciate this comment!
Loved this! Thanks for sharing. I am a Registered Nurse & I agree with what you said about a meaningful career ♥️
Articulate, so well explained,. It was like we all took the journey into the past with you. My first appointment with you, I had trigger thumb, ouch! Thank you so much.🦅
Well this was very interesting Dr. Christy. It's nice to hear more about you and how it all began for you, and I love how lift God and appreciate you for mentioning how turning to God at all times for direction in your life choices. Thank you for explaining why Internal docs are such jerks. My husband saw so many in his 9 years of illness and they were the most rudest and uncaring ...smug of all. I hated dealing with them.
Hi thanks for sharing great information. Can you suggest if we don't have biology still.we can get into medicine collage
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Is that physics with calculus?
Pharmacy -- you left us out.
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Have you had covid yet?
No! Isn’t that strange? I’m surprised myself.
Why would anyone want to get into med school? Waster of time money energy and youth
This. Half way thru such a regret and disappointment.
Oh man. I’m so sorry to hear this. I’d say keep plugging away and with your degree you can decide to never practice medicine but your degree will help you find a second path.