*If you think you're not smart enough to become a doctor, think again.* Everyone starts out the same: helpless sacks of meat, knowing nothing except how to breathe, drink, and sleep. Not everyone is destined to be a doctor, but don't let "I'm too dumb" be the ONLY reason you have for not pursuing a medical career you're interested in. Actually, this goes for any career. Have a good day, fellow internet stranger friend :)
Unfortunately, intelligence is also largely genetic, lol. Definitely not the only factor, but it is a false image to say that we are all on a level playing field. Dozens of other factors also make the playing field uneven. Socioeconomic status, upbringing (more or less enriching environments), etc.
Amen! I had lower scores in high school compared to my friends, went into another degree, and 2 years later I'm starting med school! Brains are great but passion is also important
@@afarensis9720 in my faculty with 150+ students in the first class, there are even dumb ones who can't grasp the difference between strong and weak acids but get along by memorizing everything
O K The video isn’t stating that psychiatry is an easy specialty. It is stating that it is EASIER to MATCH INTO. You’re confused, I am a PA student at Creighton University and i have also heard this
O K Psychiatry is an extremely hard specialty but the point of this video is to indicate which specialties are easier to GET INTO. Watch the video before you attack people for stating what the video said.
EM doesn't require practically any research, and there's lots of spots. Anesthesia has competitive fellowships now that subspecialty training is way more common now
EM is only competitive if you really want to do EM but do a bad job on your EM rotations. EM matching relies much more heavily on letters (SLOEs) than other specialties. There are a wide variety of programs and many spots, you just have to be willing to give up that big city intense ER training to be sure to match which many people generally avoid so their match list can be unrealistic if they have a weak application. This happens in IM and other specialties too, just not as much I believe
There’s one with the AAMC but idk how accurate it is and it’s long. Like it said that may brother who is in anesthesia should go into path or derm and it said I (I want to do derm) should do anesthesia
Shauna Schiffman I know this is generic advice, but I advise that you be selfish in what specialty you choose. Of course choose a job that will make you happy, but also make sure it doesn’t mess with the kind of lifestyle you want to live. I am an emergency doc, and I love working in the ER but I enjoy having half the month (at least) off...AND NO PAGER! I guess what I am trying to say is that we all felt this calling to be a doctor. And we have all made sacrifices to serve others. But you got to put yourself in the forefront when you choose a specialty. Your patients will benefit significantly from you being happy in your chosen specialty.
Richard Wood I really appreciate that you said this. I am getting my BS in nursing right now and want to apply to med school after I am done. One of the things that attracted me to nursing was the ability to work three twelve hour shifts. Is most of emergency medicine like that? Long shifts with more days off? If so that would really help me figure out what direction I am going. Thanks.
NickkOfTime it absolutely is like this. It is probably the most flexible job in medicine. Some people make a career becoming a traveling ER Doctor working 24/7 for 7 days straight at a rural ER or become part of a big corporate medical group (CMG) where they mandate you work 16 10hr shifts a month. There are a lot of ER docs who work the 3 12hr shifts/week stint.
Used to like neurosurgery because the complexity, but fell in love with family medicine after seeing the doctors. Highly inspirational seeing how they care for and know their patients
Family Medicine is the best for me. I get incredibly bored doing the same thing over and over. There's not a day in my comunity health center I'm not challenged by something new.
Just an FYI anesthesia has gotten more competitive the past 2 years. It’s competitiveness fluctuates a lot and programs are not going unfilled anymore. I’m just letting you know since you’re interested in the field. That said it’s still definitely not one of the more competitive specialties
I worked at an emergency department for a few months and can agree that abdominal pain and chest pain are a huge chunk of the patients that come. The next closest problem is probably headache.
My daughter is going into emergency medicine, and her husband in internal medicine. She loves the fast pace and variety of cases she had during her rotations. Plus the shift work schedule will come in very handy when she decides to become a mom, she thinks. Great info! Thanks.
I'm pretty sure he did a "Day in the Life" video a while back. It follows around a psych resident, so the format is different from this one, but still interesting and informative.
A successful and coherent atmosphere in the OR requires that Surgeon and Anesthesiologist are at equal ground, there is no "second in command". There are two different roles here and one cannot do their work without the other. An Anesthesiologist needs to be comfortable taking charge of a patient when $*** hits the fan during a case and also to be the patient's advocate when deciding on the risks of surgery + anesthesia. Of course, my bias as an Anesthesiologist and probably Dr. Jubbal's bias having been on the surgical side. Teamwork.
@@MedSchoolInsiders This is true, especially when you compare junior vs senior anesthesiologists. Where I work, there is an atmosphere of mutual respect which makes for a great work environment. Zero tolerance for anyone being treated poorly. We have had both surgeons and anesthesiologists who have had to remediate via anger management therapy!
Where do YOU work? I wanna work where you work. Cos I also see your photo, Man Anesthesiologist. I was about to write "Dr.", then I remembered that only the surgeon is the doctor. 🙄
I find it really cool how you framed not choosing pediatrics as a "challenge you wouldn't be excited to take on for the rest of your life." There are some specialties I was interested in, but I now wonder if I only like them because of the supposedly easy lifestyle. This vid reminded me that every specialty has it's stressors and that I should think deeply about what challenges I'd love to face every day--thanks Dr. J!
30 years specializing in osteopathic manipulative medicine. All cash practice, super high demand, great niche, and 45 min per patient. I get paid 100% of what I charge and make more $ than I could spend. No call, no emergencies. Chill medicine. Very high demand.
i have doctors throughout my family, including one psychiatrist (other side is all engineers lol) i want to study psychiatry in medical school, glad to see that you guys talked about it for a little more insight. Thanks!
I find iy absolutely mindblowing how different it is in Brazil. Around here, Anesthesiology and Psichiatry are among the top 5 most competitive specialties. And psychiatrists make TONS of money too, perhaps one of the top earning specialties. Emergency Medicine is practicaly non-existent in Brazil, ERs and even ICUs being mostly run by recently gradutated doctors without any specialty, ufortunately. And Family Medicine is virtualy unkown by the gerenal public, but the government has been making efforts to strengthen the Primary Care.
I hope we get a "So you want to be a psychiatrist" video soon! Here in Italy psych isn't the most competitive specialty either. However, psychiatrists definitely have to take call and work nights and weekends just like any other doctor working in the hospital. Private practice is a different story, of course. I'd love to know more about the differences and similarities of the profession in other countries such as the US :)
In North America it is. Not in my native country, Russia where you also do the intensive care and usually either dead or a finished mentally handicapped by mid-fifties. Sad …
I’d really appreciate a “So you want to me a paediatric surgeon” video. Including match rate, competitiveness, average USMLE scores for internationals etc etc PLEASE 🙏🏽
My daughter and her husband both couples matched in PM&R and Family Med respectively... It was both of their first choice and both are very happy so far!
Used to think I wanted to specialize in emergency medicine but after working in the ED for a few months, I can easily say this isn't for me. I really like consistency and not having to suddenly rush to work or being told to come in an hour late because there aren't enough patients to see. Night shifts multiple days in a row are also tough to recover from. Family medicine or internal medicine is definitely my first choice now!
I'm butt hurt. The easiest field is obviously Martian Nueroscience. I had my fellowship with Carl Sagan while we road the Viking lander together into the interestellar wind and it was EASY.
PM&R is extremely underrated. In fact, the specialty is more high-tech than what is explained here. You have TONS of things to do (including injections and robotics) and you can pick whichever you want according to your interest. They deal with several human systems: musculoskeletal, neurology, and even cardiopulmonary system which is not mentioned here. Their patient ranges from babies to elderly patients. Their way of thinking is very different from other doctors, very patient-oriented and not just focused on "curing" the disease. Therefore, their relationship with patient is often great, not to mention their satisfaction rate of their lifestyle. It is truly a hidden gem that looks like a lump of mud for a medical student.
I would love to see an in depth video about dermatology, similar to one of those “ so you want to be” videos. Although I do my own research, it’s nice to hear things from another persons point of view.
This explained so much I’m a sophomore in high school and everyone’s like what do you want to do, and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. First it was PT, then sports medicine physician, and then ER physician. I still wanted to be involved with sports medicine and I have researched and researched and couldn’t find out if an Er doctor that specializes in sports medicine was even a thing. Your video was awesome and explained so much!! Also I always thought I had everything planned out and now I’m in high school and want to be in the medical field but have never taken any medical classes and I don’t have any room in my schedule while I’m in high school so if anyone knows if that would be a huge set back in the future that would be awesome to know!
It’s best to just relax and learn the things you love when you start your medical classes and rotations,you can’t be worrying about specialty if you haven’t even started medical classes.One step at a time
Ambush Yea but I’d rather have minimum knowledge of everything rather than limit myself to only one branch. If you have a heart problem you will NEVER see a plastic surgeon, pediatrician, psychiatrist, etc. but FP/GP will see everything. And in my personal opinion is this is the best and most honorable doctor type.
I would love a “so you want to be a psychiatrist” video. I’m working on my BA in child and youth counselling and am trying to decide if I take the med school route to become psychiatrist or my PyscD to become a clinical psychologist
If you can hack the the drinking from a firehouse that is medical school and are a good text taker: I say go for the MED school route and specialize in Psych. It is a long path but my friends who went this route have a wonderful quality of life. And in my opinion, sometimes it’s nice to pawn off the time consuming therapy part to the PsycD/psychologists/social workers. Unless the therapy part is the most fascinating part, then by all means absolutely ditch getting an MD/DO and get that masters/PHD in psychology.
One week I want ob/gyn the other I want cardiothoracic surgery the other anesthesiology and the other psychiatry. This is like choosing a career all over again 😭😭
Pm&r was one of the top 10 most competitive speciality to get into in past surveys. Based on scores yes its less competitive but due to the surge in applicants and the minimum amount of residency spots it has a low match rate. Scores aren't the only factor for that speciality and a poor predictor for "competitiveness"
This is also true for EM. Many students are steering clear due to lack of residencies and even fewer positions available for attending physicians (likely due to the increased number midlevel providers).
The fact that ~200k per year is considered a low pay makes me smile as here in Italy an internal medicine doctor earns ~50k per year working in a hospital...the pay here is peanuts lmao The upside is that med school is relatively cheap, it costs me around 1000€/year so no debt after graduation
Yeah, the lack of debt balances it out for you. Also, some specialties make less than that (I'm talking about individual doctor, not the average). Pathology (especially forensics) and family med often get that wrap. Military med also doesn't get paid a lot, but that's in exchange for their paid tuition. :/
I hope one day you guys will make a video on "so you want to be a thoracic surgeon". Keep up the good work! Your videos are what I come to when procrastination is there.
Gunning for EM! "In the ED we see the most exciting 30 minutes of every specialty, then hand them off to the appropiate department" I heard that once, and after i started volunteering during my 1st and 2nd year at my school's hospital three times a week, i definetly share the feeling.
Family doctor being #1 doesn’t surprise me, in my area, everyone wants to specialize so we have a mass shortage of family doctors. I work in a walk in clinic and the amount of people that don’t have a family doctor is astounding. Something really needs to change.
Pediatrics can be a total joy. I have been one for over 30 years and I can honestly say I still love my work. Obviously you would only love pediatrics if you like children. Pediatric is a vocation within a vocation, if you are meant to be a pediatrician, you will be one, you won't even spend much time thinking about it. But if you work in pediatric oncology, you will need super strength of character. Watching kids suffer and die could break your spirit. But that isn't even the worst. The very worst thing you may have to deal with as a pediatrician is child abuse.
It's because all Canadian patients have health insurance... In the USA imagine treating basic needs that have de-evolved to a near death situation because the patients can't afford basic medication or treatments. Which also means you don't get paid, because you can't get blood from stone.
I want to go into family medicine! Sadly at my university, people are making fun of me for wanting to do that. Because it isn't a competetive speciality, they think every doctor of this kind is pretty dump. They all forget how important family medicine is and how important it is to be very good in it!
FM is the best for me! It's noy glarmourous, of course, but who cares? There's is no other specialty where you can bond so strongly with the patients, families and comunities and use that bond as a powerful diagnostic and therapeutic tool. I'm the one who takes care of gramma's back pain, daddy's smoking addiction, mama's pre-natal care and I'm the one who makes sure the kids are growing alright. My patients might even need to see other focal specialists, but I'm always the one coordinating their healthcare. In other words, I am the doctor they call theirs and for me it's the best thing ever. Besides, I hate hospitals.
The biggest problem of EM: patientes that are not in a real emergency, but believe so... (At least, in Brazil, but I guess it's the same in the U.S.)..
Pre-med and current ER nurse here. You hit the nail on the head. I love working emergencies, but could never in my life imagine becoming an emergency physician. I work in the Texas medical center and I would say roughly 60-70% of the patients we see, do not need to be in the ER. The worst part about it is that attempting to educate them is next to impossible and only comes off as rude to them. It's a very big and expensive problem.
Vc é do Rio? Muito prazer. I have friends from Brazil currently doing Peds EM rotations in Miami. Peds is a different world compared to adults, but same issue, like 80% of the patients do not need to be there, a lot of parents treat the ED like it's their Pediatrician's office and bring their kids in for any cough or cold -_-
@@johnolive9477 These are the same parents who come see me in triage because they have been coughing and running fever this morning and didn't go to work. Or whose back has hurt for the last 9 years and today "it was really bad." Then the kids grow up and having not had any normal pediatrician with healthy continuity of care, end up with chest pain at 35 and are back in triage. And when we recommend to the mother that she needs to see a pediatrician for her kid or a pain management doctor for her own back, we are scoffed at, told we do not care and receive poor reviews from patient satisfaction surveys. Vicious cycle.
Choose the speciality that you see yourself doing. You are happy in and see yourself waking up to go to work happy and feeling fulfilled for the next 25 years. All physician are very handsomely paid and it is well respected profession. Never make it about salary you will paid more than a senator.
I'm currently a medical scribe in an ED and I see many patients with shortness of breath, abdominal pain or chest pain. It does get exciting when someone comes into the trauma room or arrives with cardiac arrest. But there are also many patients that come in for trivial things like a cold or sore throat when they could just go to a clinic and get treatment there. There are also many patients that are homeless who come in repeatedly (multiple times a week) for alcohol intoxication or drug overdose.
Dai I looked up medical scribe on Indeed and found an opening with a company called ProScribe. They put you through online training and then on-site training which takes about a month. I suggest looking up ProScribe and see if they have any openings somewhere.
Can you please make a video about the pain management specialty? I’ve watched a ton of your videos but none of them, except this one, includes that specialty. I’m eager to learn more!
Subspecialty of anesthesia, but there's a career path through EM and PM&R. Usually heavily biased towards interventional pain modalities like injections and spinal cord stimulators.
No specific specialty as mentioned earlier but once you’re an anesthesiologist/psychiatrist/physiatrist/internist you can do a separate pain residency of 2 years. In Canada at least. If you’re an anesthesiologist, you can do a 1 year pain (acute or chronic) fellowship or that extra pain residency.
But most EM doctors have a great life style. It’s shift work so you don’t take work home, and at least from my experience(My father is an EM doctor),they work 3-4 days a week.
Levi Beam TBH Definitely better than some, but many switch between nights and days which is awful. ER life style is heavily dependent on where you work.
Those average salaries are quantifying salaries even lower than the average obviously. In Miami, I know quite a few physicians who earn half of the average you state. Family physicians in Miami Florida earn 100 K and I know of one earning less than 100 K. Kids better think twice about medicine before they rack up a debt load which their salary will not be able to pay for.
The anaesthesiologist is not the second in command. Actually, it is problematic putting the problem like that. You can't compare the surgeon and the anaesthesiologist, they are not doing the same thing, they have to always work synchronized unless you don't want the patient to be awake in the middle of surgery or vice-versa.
I'm doubting at least 3 of these belong in the category of least conpetitive. Maybe according to the data you're pulling from it fits your criteria but Psychiatry has been in the top 5 most competitive specialties for a couple years now just because of lifestyle, and anesthesiology is slated to be in the top 5 most competitive this match cycle as well. EM doesn't seem right as well. The other 3, however, I would agree with.
I'm very surprised that psychiatry isn't very competitive in the US. As a practicing physician in Brazil, I have seen a rise in people wishing to enter the psychiatric field. Anesthesiology have surprised me as well. The only field who has less competitors here is family medicine. It's a field with few resources and it's often seen as "simple and easy" so I can see why it's less competitive here too.
@@MedSchoolInsiders I'm surprised to hear that. Earning potential for some Radiology subspecialties (e.g. Interventional) is quite high, and lifestyle okay.
Hey, A new subscriber here! Okay let's be very honest... My biggest dream in my life is to be a doctor... I'm just a 9th grader... I am not a Topper or somethin' and I'm not that smart... But still I'm ready to do anything to get my dream job... My ambition always changes year by year but when I was in 6th grade I thought of being a doctor, I did not think about it seriously. Then when I got promoted to 7th grade I thought about it more... I Googled more about medicine... And making more knowledge... I just simply got into it... And it's my dream now... I thought about those specialities... And at first I decided to go for pediatrics, then it became oncology, then psychology, psycaiatry...I STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT TO CHOOSE... I KNOW YA'LL MIGHT BE THINKING THAT I'M JUST IN HIGHSCHOOL AND WHY I'M THINKIN' ALL THESE STUFF JUST WHEN I HAVE A LOT OF TIME TO THINK ABOUT THOSE THINGS... BUT I AM NOTTT, NEVERRR GONNA LIE... MBBS IS MY BIGGEST DREAM CAREER 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Almost anybody that goes into medicine “knowing” what specialty they want to do is lying to themselves. They haven’t actually “done” it. One figures out their trajectory in medical school. Usually by the end of year three.
Pathology residency is very bifrucated: the top 5-10 (used to be top 20) programs typically only take US medical graduates, enriched for MD-PhDs with tons of publications and good-excellent USMLE scores. After that it drops off precipitously. But I guess that is true for a number of less competitive specialty residency programs, PM&R, neurology, psych (though I do not know of any top-tier/academic family practice programs).
Hahahaahahah, maybe in USA. In Europe, anesthesiaa is known as hardest speciality, and it is 6 years. Also the full name of speciality is anesthesiologist and reanimathologist and specialist of intensive care. It is only for special human beings who can live with a stress.
As a DO Orthopaedics resident I love this video! Appreciate that you take a positive outlook to all of our “less competitive” yet well needed medical specialties and took an honest approach to how you feel about them in your personal experiences. Great work!
Can you do a video on the potential for being a part time physician? After being a physician for a decade or so, I’d like to know if you can drop down your hours, or even go in part time off the bat
Very thorough excel doc, props! I think, however, that "AOA percentage" and "Top 40 NIH School" are flawed criteria in and of themselves because they automatically "score down" a specialty that accepts IMG (or DO) regardless of what the candidate actually accomplished in medical school. Furthermore, neither of those criteria are rated equal to Step scores or Publications by PDs. As I'm sure you agree, there are some very brilliant, well-published IMGs who complete a residency in the US.
PM&R residency, Psychiatry and ER has gotten significantly more competitive. Particularly PM&R, the secrets out about the specialty, my PM&R friends love it.
OMG-- you REALLY need to update at least the Anesthesiology section. You know WHY anesthesiologists get paid so well? They do everything EXCEPT the surgery. And while the surgeon is at the press conference, detailing how s/he saved the patient's life, the anesthesiologist is in the ICU, making sure the saved patient is STILL alive.
*If you think you're not smart enough to become a doctor, think again.*
Everyone starts out the same: helpless sacks of meat, knowing nothing except how to breathe, drink, and sleep. Not everyone is destined to be a doctor, but don't let "I'm too dumb" be the ONLY reason you have for not pursuing a medical career you're interested in. Actually, this goes for any career.
Have a good day, fellow internet stranger friend :)
Friend this was uplifting! Thank you
Unfortunately, intelligence is also largely genetic, lol. Definitely not the only factor, but it is a false image to say that we are all on a level playing field. Dozens of other factors also make the playing field uneven. Socioeconomic status, upbringing (more or less enriching environments), etc.
You don't need to be intelligent to become a doctor, you must just study hard
Amen! I had lower scores in high school compared to my friends, went into another degree, and 2 years later I'm starting med school! Brains are great but passion is also important
@@afarensis9720 in my faculty with 150+ students in the first class, there are even dumb ones who can't grasp the difference between strong and weak acids but get along by memorizing everything
1. Family Medicine
2. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
3. Anaesthesiology
4. Paediatrics
5. Psychiatry
6. Emergency Medicine
O K easiest to MATCH into.
O K All these aren’t easy to practice but they are easy to match into
manish Ranjan “Learn your place and let the real doctors do their job.” WHAT THE HECK THIS IS TOO FUNNY
O K The video isn’t stating that psychiatry is an easy specialty. It is stating that it is EASIER to MATCH INTO. You’re confused, I am a PA student at Creighton University and i have also heard this
O K Psychiatry is an extremely hard specialty but the point of this video is to indicate which specialties are easier to GET INTO. Watch the video before you attack people for stating what the video said.
I’m surprised about anesthesiology and emergency med. They used to be really competitive.
EM still is though.
EM doesn't require practically any research, and there's lots of spots. Anesthesia has competitive fellowships now that subspecialty training is way more common now
Most people are. 20 years ago anesthesia was very competitive. Hasn’t been that way in a while. EM was never very competitive
EM is only competitive if you really want to do EM but do a bad job on your EM rotations. EM matching relies much more heavily on letters (SLOEs) than other specialties. There are a wide variety of programs and many spots, you just have to be willing to give up that big city intense ER training to be sure to match which many people generally avoid so their match list can be unrealistic if they have a weak application. This happens in IM and other specialties too, just not as much I believe
Anesthesiology is getting more and more competitive in the Netherlands... When I got in, it was relatively easy :)
I would love to take a short quiz to find out which medical field is right for me! There's too many options!
There’s one with the AAMC but idk how accurate it is and it’s long. Like it said that may brother who is in anesthesia should go into path or derm and it said I (I want to do derm) should do anesthesia
Shauna Schiffman I know this is generic advice, but I advise that you be selfish in what specialty you choose. Of course choose a job that will make you happy, but also make sure it doesn’t mess with the kind of lifestyle you want to live. I am an emergency doc, and I love working in the ER but I enjoy having half the month (at least) off...AND NO PAGER!
I guess what I am trying to say is that we all felt this calling to be a doctor. And we have all made sacrifices to serve others. But you got to put yourself in the forefront when you choose a specialty. Your patients will benefit significantly from you being happy in your chosen specialty.
Richard Wood I really appreciate that you said this. I am getting my BS in nursing right now and want to apply to med school after I am done. One of the things that attracted me to nursing was the ability to work three twelve hour shifts. Is most of emergency medicine like that? Long shifts with more days off? If so that would really help me figure out what direction I am going. Thanks.
NickkOfTime it absolutely is like this. It is probably the most flexible job in medicine. Some people make a career becoming a traveling ER Doctor working 24/7 for 7 days straight at a rural ER or become part of a big corporate medical group (CMG) where they mandate you work 16 10hr shifts a month. There are a lot of ER docs who work the 3 12hr shifts/week stint.
Richard Wood Wow! I really appreciate the information. That really helps me figure out a plan for what direction to aim for. Thanks!
Used to like neurosurgery because the complexity, but fell in love with family medicine after seeing the doctors. Highly inspirational seeing how they care for and know their patients
Family Medicine is the best for me. I get incredibly bored doing the same thing over and over. There's not a day in my comunity health center I'm not challenged by something new.
@QueenB123 Literally same here, I've wanted to be a pediatrician but come to realize that i want to be a family medicine physician.
lmao neurosurg to family med.. sounds like someone got their step 1 score back
aakksshhaayy you’re brown so you may not understand it’s not all about prestige and money.
@@ext230 ohhh you said it 😂😂
Heck yes! Future anesthesiologist, here! This just made my day.
Just an FYI anesthesia has gotten more competitive the past 2 years. It’s competitiveness fluctuates a lot and programs are not going unfilled anymore. I’m just letting you know since you’re interested in the field. That said it’s still definitely not one of the more competitive specialties
@@jeffcrawford9515 Thanks. Still gonna work my butt off just the same.😉
Christi Thompson definitely late but you got this dude! I’d like GI or derm but I know they will take a lot of work.
I feel this!
Anesthesia was very competitive last year and seems that way this year. Waiting for match in a few days.
I worked at an emergency department for a few months and can agree that abdominal pain and chest pain are a huge chunk of the patients that come. The next closest problem is probably headache.
Rabe Alsilwadi or psych
Definitely, cardiac-related pain, digestive pain, or skin damage. Headache-related pain could also be a sign of high blood pressure.
My daughter is going into emergency medicine, and her husband in internal medicine. She loves the fast pace and variety of cases she had during her rotations. Plus the shift work schedule will come in very handy when she decides to become a mom, she thinks. Great info! Thanks.
Imagine having the strength to deal with druggies for 30 hours only to come home and be a mom. Omg couldn’t be me, but I’m happy for her
@@rheatarachand2577 she's only working 12 hour shifts, for 3 or 4 days a week and loving it so far. But yeah, the number of drug cases is sad.
Hey Kevin, can you make a video on Psychiatry? I would really like to learn more about this field. Love your videos! :)
I'm pretty sure he did a "Day in the Life" video a while back. It follows around a psych resident, so the format is different from this one, but still interesting and informative.
A successful and coherent atmosphere in the OR requires that Surgeon and Anesthesiologist are at equal ground, there is no "second in command". There are two different roles here and one cannot do their work without the other. An Anesthesiologist needs to be comfortable taking charge of a patient when $*** hits the fan during a case and also to be the patient's advocate when deciding on the risks of surgery + anesthesia. Of course, my bias as an Anesthesiologist and probably Dr. Jubbal's bias having been on the surgical side. Teamwork.
Teamwork is dream work! While I agree with you, I’ve witnessed many anesthesiologists being treated poorly by surgeons
@@MedSchoolInsiders This is true, especially when you compare junior vs senior anesthesiologists. Where I work, there is an atmosphere of mutual respect which makes for a great work environment. Zero tolerance for anyone being treated poorly. We have had both surgeons and anesthesiologists who have had to remediate via anger management therapy!
I want to become an anesthesiologist in the future, how is the work like daily?
@@nto514 How are CRNAs and Residents treated where you work if there are any?
Where do YOU work? I wanna work where you work. Cos I also see your photo, Man Anesthesiologist. I was about to write "Dr.", then I remembered that only the surgeon is the doctor. 🙄
Please make a “so you want to be a psychiatrist” video!
I want to become a psychiatrist too!!!
Sameee
PLEASE
YES PLZZZ!! i’m thinking about it toooooo
Yesssss
I find it really cool how you framed not choosing pediatrics as a "challenge you wouldn't be excited to take on for the rest of your life."
There are some specialties I was interested in, but I now wonder if I only like them because of the supposedly easy lifestyle. This vid reminded me that every specialty has it's stressors and that I should think deeply about what challenges I'd love to face every day--thanks Dr. J!
Do a most fun doctor specialties video
Yess please
C yeah I guess but he did heart my comment so maybe it’s possible
30 years specializing in osteopathic manipulative medicine. All cash practice, super high demand, great niche, and 45 min per patient. I get paid 100% of what I charge and make more $ than I could spend. No call, no emergencies. Chill medicine. Very high demand.
i have doctors throughout my family, including one psychiatrist (other side is all engineers lol) i want to study psychiatry in medical school, glad to see that you guys talked about it for a little more insight. Thanks!
same!
Thanks for covering this, Dr.Jubbal. To me, this is one of the MOST informative med-school based channels on UA-cam.
I hope that you do the least competitive sub-specialities in internal medicine like (endocrine, pulmonary, cardiovascular, infectious disease and etc)
I find iy absolutely mindblowing how different it is in Brazil. Around here, Anesthesiology and Psichiatry are among the top 5 most competitive specialties. And psychiatrists make TONS of money too, perhaps one of the top earning specialties. Emergency Medicine is practicaly non-existent in Brazil, ERs and even ICUs being mostly run by recently gradutated doctors without any specialty, ufortunately.
And Family Medicine is virtualy unkown by the gerenal public, but the government has been making efforts to strengthen the Primary Care.
I hope we get a "So you want to be a psychiatrist" video soon! Here in Italy psych isn't the most competitive specialty either. However, psychiatrists definitely have to take call and work nights and weekends just like any other doctor working in the hospital. Private practice is a different story, of course. I'd love to know more about the differences and similarities of the profession in other countries such as the US :)
I would love to have a video on medical oncology like a day in the life or anything.
This is some great info! These might not be competitive, but they're still fulfilling!!
I'm surprised at how different anaesthesiology is there compared to where I work, South Africa. I almost choked when you said it's a great lifestyle
In North America it is. Not in my native country, Russia where you also do the intensive care and usually either dead or a finished mentally handicapped by mid-fifties. Sad …
Can you do a stand-alone video on emergency medicine?
Yes
I’d really appreciate a “So you want to me a paediatric surgeon” video. Including match rate, competitiveness, average USMLE scores for internationals etc etc PLEASE 🙏🏽
Probably in the future :)
very difficult my best friend is a pediatric surgeon job before that was u s marine corps fighter pilot
Imagine the bottom of compensation being $231,000
Imagine 400k debt from school boi
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The bottom is actually much lower than that, less than $200k
This is average for the lowest paid specialty. Many doctors are paid less than this and many are paid more
Med School Insiders I’m aware of the concept of average; thank you for acknowledging that the distribution around the average is quite wide.
@@MedSchoolInsiders guess I heard the video wrong my bad🤷♂️
The best channel I know ! Congratulations to the team !
My daughter and her husband both couples matched in PM&R and Family Med respectively... It was both of their first choice and both are very happy so far!
Used to think I wanted to specialize in emergency medicine but after working in the ED for a few months, I can easily say this isn't for me. I really like consistency and not having to suddenly rush to work or being told to come in an hour late because there aren't enough patients to see. Night shifts multiple days in a row are also tough to recover from. Family medicine or internal medicine is definitely my first choice now!
You get to use your 💝 AND your 🧠.
Thank you for this Dr Jubbal!
I'm butt hurt. The easiest field is obviously Martian Nueroscience. I had my fellowship with Carl Sagan while we road the Viking lander together into the interestellar wind and it was EASY.
You’re right. I need to do a follow up video now
What is that?
Haha😂
PM&R is extremely underrated. In fact, the specialty is more high-tech than what is explained here. You have TONS of things to do (including injections and robotics) and you can pick whichever you want according to your interest. They deal with several human systems: musculoskeletal, neurology, and even cardiopulmonary system which is not mentioned here. Their patient ranges from babies to elderly patients. Their way of thinking is very different from other doctors, very patient-oriented and not just focused on "curing" the disease. Therefore, their relationship with patient is often great, not to mention their satisfaction rate of their lifestyle. It is truly a hidden gem that looks like a lump of mud for a medical student.
I am a Physiatrist/PM&R doc....graduated medical school in 1996 and finished residency in 2000. I totally agree!!
I would love to see an in depth video about dermatology, similar to one of those “ so you want to be” videos. Although I do my own research, it’s nice to hear things from another persons point of view.
This explained so much I’m a sophomore in high school and everyone’s like what do you want to do, and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. First it was PT, then sports medicine physician, and then ER physician. I still wanted to be involved with sports medicine and I have researched and researched and couldn’t find out if an Er doctor that specializes in sports medicine was even a thing. Your video was awesome and explained so much!!
Also I always thought I had everything planned out and now I’m in high school and want to be in the medical field but have never taken any medical classes and I don’t have any room in my schedule while I’m in high school so if anyone knows if that would be a huge set back in the future that would be awesome to know!
It’s best to just relax and learn the things you love when you start your medical classes and rotations,you can’t be worrying about specialty if you haven’t even started medical classes.One step at a time
Love your videos straightforward and honest
I’m a jack of all trades so I’m fine with General practioner
Same honestly
shame they make such little money relatively and they have a bunch of midlevels thinking theyre physicians
But a master of none
@@ambush4851 but better than a master of one
Ambush
Yea but I’d rather have minimum knowledge of everything rather than limit myself to only one branch. If you have a heart problem you will NEVER see a plastic surgeon, pediatrician, psychiatrist, etc. but FP/GP will see everything. And in my personal opinion is this is the best and most honorable doctor type.
I would love a “so you want to be a psychiatrist” video. I’m working on my BA in child and youth counselling and am trying to decide if I take the med school route to become psychiatrist or my PyscD to become a clinical psychologist
Do u have all the pre reqs?
Walrus not yet. I’m in the first year of this program, so I still have time to get the pre-reqs for either direction
If you can hack the the drinking from a firehouse that is medical school and are a good text taker: I say go for the MED school route and specialize in Psych. It is a long path but my friends who went this route have a wonderful quality of life. And in my opinion, sometimes it’s nice to pawn off the time consuming therapy part to the PsycD/psychologists/social workers. Unless the therapy part is the most fascinating part, then by all means absolutely ditch getting an MD/DO and get that masters/PHD in psychology.
@@masonlee1228 Great idea! Nice tip!
One week I want ob/gyn the other I want cardiothoracic surgery the other anesthesiology and the other psychiatry. This is like choosing a career all over again 😭😭
Thank you for showing the whole list in the beginning instead of dragging it out through the whole video
family medicine doctors are awesome ❤️
Pm&r was one of the top 10 most competitive speciality to get into in past surveys. Based on scores yes its less competitive but due to the surge in applicants and the minimum amount of residency spots it has a low match rate. Scores aren't the only factor for that speciality and a poor predictor for "competitiveness"
This is also true for EM. Many students are steering clear due to lack of residencies and even fewer positions available for attending physicians (likely due to the increased number midlevel providers).
U must be in PMR
Thats what he said, That’s why he used other factors other than the step scores: Match rate, Publications, AOA Matriculants a NIH Top 40 MS.
Pm&r - an amazing field.
The fact that ~200k per year is considered a low pay makes me smile as here in Italy an internal medicine doctor earns ~50k per year working in a hospital...the pay here is peanuts lmao
The upside is that med school is relatively cheap, it costs me around 1000€/year so no debt after graduation
In my country its 15k* usd per year...how sad is that
Yeah, the lack of debt balances it out for you. Also, some specialties make less than that (I'm talking about individual doctor, not the average). Pathology (especially forensics) and family med often get that wrap. Military med also doesn't get paid a lot, but that's in exchange for their paid tuition. :/
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When is neurosurgery video coming???
Been waiting for 2 months
Can't wait.
MEEEEE TOOOO!!!!!
Me too
@med school insiders
Same here
According to my work as internship doctor I totally agree with every single word here 👌
Psychiatry dream here I come! Thank you for the wonderful video ☺️
So you want to be an ER doc please!!
I hope one day you guys will make a video on "so you want to be a thoracic surgeon". Keep up the good work! Your videos are what I come to when procrastination is there.
Did you NOT rank pathology ? I thought that is one of the (bottom) 5 least competitive subspecialty.
i currently want to be either an anesthesiologist or an emergency medicine physician so this is great lol
Gunning for EM!
"In the ED we see the most exciting 30 minutes of every specialty, then hand them off to the appropiate department"
I heard that once, and after i started volunteering during my 1st and 2nd year at my school's hospital three times a week, i definetly share the feeling.
Family doctor being #1 doesn’t surprise me, in my area, everyone wants to specialize so we have a mass shortage of family doctors. I work in a walk in clinic and the amount of people that don’t have a family doctor is astounding. Something really needs to change.
Key word for that one: money family doctors are the least paid
Future Team PM&R! ❤️
I thought OBGYN was an easy one, and that psych was hard.
PM&R is also becoming a very common specialty for DO’s since we can use OMT
“Or at least they’re supposed too.”
*OooOoo~ tea*
Pediatrics can be a total joy. I have been one for over 30 years and I can honestly say I still love my work. Obviously you would only love pediatrics if you like children. Pediatric is a vocation within a vocation, if you are meant to be a pediatrician, you will be one, you won't even spend much time thinking about it. But if you work in pediatric oncology, you will need super strength of character. Watching kids suffer and die could break your spirit. But that isn't even the worst. The very worst thing you may have to deal with as a pediatrician is child abuse.
Pediatritian neonatologist here. Its the best in the World. Just do what you love /hug
This is so different from Canada! Emergency Medicine and Ae are often top 10 in the most competitive specialties for residency
Is family medicine a respected specialty in Canada? I say that because the Canadian family medicine is very respected here in Brazil.
It's because all Canadian patients have health insurance...
In the USA imagine treating basic needs that have de-evolved to a near death situation because the patients can't afford basic medication or treatments. Which also means you don't get paid, because you can't get blood from stone.
I want to go into family medicine! Sadly at my university, people are making fun of me for wanting to do that. Because it isn't a competetive speciality, they think every doctor of this kind is pretty dump. They all forget how important family medicine is and how important it is to be very good in it!
FM is the best for me! It's noy glarmourous, of course, but who cares? There's is no other specialty where you can bond so strongly with the patients, families and comunities and use that bond as a powerful diagnostic and therapeutic tool. I'm the one who takes care of gramma's back pain, daddy's smoking addiction, mama's pre-natal care and I'm the one who makes sure the kids are growing alright. My patients might even need to see other focal specialists, but I'm always the one coordinating their healthcare. In other words, I am the doctor they call theirs and for me it's the best thing ever. Besides, I hate hospitals.
@@zedasilva3 💝💓🩺🥰
Hey, I'm proud to say I've gave them a fun time presenting with a tension pneumothorax 😅 had VATS 3 weeks later
The biggest problem of EM: patientes that are not in a real emergency, but believe so... (At least, in Brazil, but I guess it's the same in the U.S.)..
Yes massive issue here. Uninsured patients mostly
Pre-med and current ER nurse here. You hit the nail on the head. I love working emergencies, but could never in my life imagine becoming an emergency physician. I work in the Texas medical center and I would say roughly 60-70% of the patients we see, do not need to be in the ER. The worst part about it is that attempting to educate them is next to impossible and only comes off as rude to them. It's a very big and expensive problem.
Vc é do Rio? Muito prazer. I have friends from Brazil currently doing Peds EM rotations in Miami. Peds is a different world compared to adults, but same issue, like 80% of the patients do not need to be there, a lot of parents treat the ED like it's their Pediatrician's office and bring their kids in for any cough or cold -_-
@@johnolive9477 These are the same parents who come see me in triage because they have been coughing and running fever this morning and didn't go to work. Or whose back has hurt for the last 9 years and today "it was really bad." Then the kids grow up and having not had any normal pediatrician with healthy continuity of care, end up with chest pain at 35 and are back in triage.
And when we recommend to the mother that she needs to see a pediatrician for her kid or a pain management doctor for her own back, we are scoffed at, told we do not care and receive poor reviews from patient satisfaction surveys. Vicious cycle.
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Choose the speciality that you see yourself doing. You are happy in and see yourself waking up to go to work happy and feeling fulfilled for the next 25 years. All physician are very handsomely paid and it is well respected profession. Never make it about salary you will paid more than a senator.
I read most of the comment ,most of them think about salary but you said the right thing well done
Hey Dr. Kev
Can you please make a video about careers you can pursue with an MD aside from medical practice?
Jad Farhoud yes please!
Consulting
That would be nice
Yesss
Insurance, public health, all administrative stuff or purely academic research
Great job! Just did a series of videos on Psychiatry for those who are investigating or interested in the specialty!
$225,000/year = "Low"
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I mean most people come out with $400k+ debt from med school $225k after taxes won’t help much for a while
Artúr Tóth total BS, I know some docs are getting paid far less.
Friedrich Siefferman that number is on average. Just because you know doctors with less doesn’t mean that number is false.
You should pick , if possible, that what is most interesting to you and not what is easy or makes potentially more money!
No doctor is poor in the US, not even middle class. It depends on how rich are you confortable with being.
I'm currently a medical scribe in an ED and I see many patients with shortness of breath, abdominal pain or chest pain. It does get exciting when someone comes into the trauma room or arrives with cardiac arrest. But there are also many patients that come in for trivial things like a cold or sore throat when they could just go to a clinic and get treatment there. There are also many patients that are homeless who come in repeatedly (multiple times a week) for alcohol intoxication or drug overdose.
Musab Shuaib How did you become a medical scribe?
Dai I looked up medical scribe on Indeed and found an opening with a company called ProScribe. They put you through online training and then on-site training which takes about a month. I suggest looking up ProScribe and see if they have any openings somewhere.
Musab Shuaib thx
Can you please make a video about the pain management specialty? I’ve watched a ton of your videos but none of them, except this one, includes that specialty. I’m eager to learn more!
Subspecialty of anesthesia, but there's a career path through EM and PM&R. Usually heavily biased towards interventional pain modalities like injections and spinal cord stimulators.
No specific specialty as mentioned earlier but once you’re an anesthesiologist/psychiatrist/physiatrist/internist you can do a separate pain residency of 2 years. In Canada at least. If you’re an anesthesiologist, you can do a 1 year pain (acute or chronic) fellowship or that extra pain residency.
Woah I had no idea! I want to be an Emergency Medicine Doc when I grow up and just clicked on this vid for fun but wow!
Hi Kevin I love your videos it has really changed my life e thanks alot :-)
So you want to be an ophthalmologist...? 🙃
EM can be a big headache. For 250 to 300 an hour I think it’s worth it...every once in a while you get to save a life too, which is quite gratifying.
But most EM doctors have a great life style. It’s shift work so you don’t take work home, and at least from my experience(My father is an EM doctor),they work 3-4 days a week.
Levi Beam TBH Definitely better than some, but many switch between nights and days which is awful. ER life style is heavily dependent on where you work.
Those average salaries are quantifying salaries even lower than the average obviously.
In Miami, I know quite a few physicians who earn half of the average you state. Family physicians in Miami Florida earn 100 K and I know of one earning less than 100 K.
Kids better think twice about medicine before they rack up a debt load which their salary will not be able to pay for.
Please do a video on universal health care in the US, and what it would mean for doctors and patients soon!!
Thank you! Great video
The anaesthesiologist is not the second in command. Actually, it is problematic putting the problem like that. You can't compare the surgeon and the anaesthesiologist, they are not doing the same thing, they have to always work synchronized unless you don't want the patient to be awake in the middle of surgery or vice-versa.
i am gynec doctor and i enjoy it from the deepest of my heart😇
i love being a doctor
Wish I could say the same someday lol
I'm doubting at least 3 of these belong in the category of least conpetitive. Maybe according to the data you're pulling from it fits your criteria but Psychiatry has been in the top 5 most competitive specialties for a couple years now just because of lifestyle, and anesthesiology is slated to be in the top 5 most competitive this match cycle as well. EM doesn't seem right as well. The other 3, however, I would agree with.
Is it possible to do a PM&R video? Maybe Day in the Life/ Lifestyle or the journey through into that field
I'm very surprised that psychiatry isn't very competitive in the US. As a practicing physician in Brazil, I have seen a rise in people wishing to enter the psychiatric field. Anesthesiology have surprised me as well. The only field who has less competitors here is family medicine. It's a field with few resources and it's often seen as "simple and easy" so I can see why it's less competitive here too.
Family Medicine is the easiest specialty to work in poorly, but it's the hardest if you're taking it seriously.
Rehab med is great. The DPT does all the work
And that’s on Grey’s Anatomy :,)
Pmr $306,000
Anesthesiologist $336,000
Pediatrics $225,000
Psychiatry $260,000
Emergency medicine $353,000
These things change over time. Before the 1980s, Radiology was one of the easiest fields to get into.
Radiology then became competitive and is now trending toward much less competitive again
@@MedSchoolInsiders I'm surprised to hear that. Earning potential for some Radiology subspecialties (e.g. Interventional) is quite high, and lifestyle okay.
@@velocitor3792 They do get sued a lot, though.
really? why so?
Hey, A new subscriber here! Okay let's be very honest... My biggest dream in my life is to be a doctor... I'm just a 9th grader... I am not a Topper or somethin' and I'm not that smart... But still I'm ready to do anything to get my dream job... My ambition always changes year by year but when I was in 6th grade I thought of being a doctor, I did not think about it seriously. Then when I got promoted to 7th grade I thought about it more... I Googled more about medicine... And making more knowledge... I just simply got into it... And it's my dream now... I thought about those specialities... And at first I decided to go for pediatrics, then it became oncology, then psychology, psycaiatry...I STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT TO CHOOSE...
I KNOW YA'LL MIGHT BE THINKING THAT I'M JUST IN HIGHSCHOOL AND WHY I'M THINKIN' ALL THESE STUFF JUST WHEN I HAVE A LOT OF TIME TO THINK ABOUT THOSE THINGS...
BUT I AM NOTTT, NEVERRR GONNA LIE...
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You have plenty of time to figure out a specialty. At least you know you want to be a doctor.
Good luck, kiddo!
@@marlonmoncrieffe0728 thank you 💖🤗
Almost anybody that goes into medicine “knowing” what specialty they want to do is lying to themselves. They haven’t actually “done” it. One figures out their trajectory in medical school. Usually by the end of year three.
Pathology residency is very bifrucated: the top 5-10 (used to be top 20) programs typically only take US medical graduates, enriched for MD-PhDs with tons of publications and good-excellent USMLE scores. After that it drops off precipitously. But I guess that is true for a number of less competitive specialty residency programs, PM&R, neurology, psych (though I do not know of any top-tier/academic family practice programs).
That’s more or less for any specialty
You may also get physically hurt by your patience as well. 7:44. That's a part people tend to miss. But well said!
can you do a vid on MD/DO versus PhD vs MDPhD
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HI Janiece!!!!!!!!
Very interested
Love the content ....
But when am I going to get a "so you want to be a peds surgeon"
Can you do this, but for fellowships on NRMP? Or at least all the IM ones? That'd be super helpful.
Hahahaahahah, maybe in USA. In Europe, anesthesiaa is known as hardest speciality, and it is 6 years. Also the full name of speciality is anesthesiologist and reanimathologist and specialist of intensive care. It is only for special human beings who can live with a stress.
As a DO Orthopaedics resident I love this video! Appreciate that you take a positive outlook to all of our “less competitive” yet well needed medical specialties and took an honest approach to how you feel about them in your personal experiences. Great work!
Can you do a video on the potential for being a part time physician? After being a physician for a decade or so, I’d like to know if you can drop down your hours, or even go in part time off the bat
Bruh I know an endocrinologist who makes $900K a year. He’s from Turkey and he’s cool af 💀
Very thorough excel doc, props! I think, however, that "AOA percentage" and "Top 40 NIH School" are flawed criteria in and of themselves because they automatically "score down" a specialty that accepts IMG (or DO) regardless of what the candidate actually accomplished in medical school. Furthermore, neither of those criteria are rated equal to Step scores or Publications by PDs. As I'm sure you agree, there are some very brilliant, well-published IMGs who complete a residency in the US.
Heck yeah psychiatry! #5
I'm down with a chill lifestyle 🥶
PM&R residency, Psychiatry and ER has gotten significantly more competitive. Particularly PM&R, the secrets out about the specialty, my PM&R friends love it.
FAMILY MEDICINE! YEAH! We need more of these in our urban and REALLY rural Black communities.
OMG-- you REALLY need to update at least the Anesthesiology section. You know WHY anesthesiologists get paid so well? They do everything EXCEPT the surgery. And while the surgeon is at the press conference, detailing how s/he saved the patient's life, the anesthesiologist is in the ICU, making sure the saved patient is STILL alive.