My advice for intern year part 2 (Preston specific tips)

[@Foxbeep_]

as an aspiring Preston, I find Preston specific content immeasurably valuable

[@mitalishinde6890]

😂 yess 🤍💌

[@user-oc9mr2xk6t]

Your vulnerability is your superpower and is making a difference for aspiring physicians. Thank you for sharing it!

[@DocAswad]

Maggie hearing you say "I'm hopeless" many times, she had to come over and check in!

[@pathurd9595]

You’re freaking awesome brother. I’m a premed and I’m not really interested in psych but you remind me to check in and name my emotions rather than go numb which I used to do.

[@itspresro]

That’s man! Going numb is maladaptive. you got this !

[@colagum]

As an M4 who just matched psych, you really touch upon a lot the fears I have with starting residency. Hearing you talk about your doubts and mistakes makes me feel less alone. Thank you for your content, both humorous and candid.

[@PepsiT98]

Agreed!!

[@RO1a346]

Preston, I took a deep breath. First intentional deep breath I’ve taken in a while. Thank you. I hope you’re well.

[@dextroushail8903]

As an M1 who just went to their first therapy session because of you, thank you🙏🏻If you ever need a reminder that your work matters, you can look back on the positive impact you’ve had on so many of us!

[@catBoi_Finnbjorn]

I had to max the volume but was rewarded with Maggie

[@Lumpycheeses]

The resident I aspire to become. Thank you for sharing those opinions.

[@aidancurran4399]

Can't pour from an empty cup hit deep. I'm glad I'm not the only one that's struggled with putting up the "blast door". A trope I've heard over again in the EMS world: "it's the pts emergency, not yours" It's possible to still be present and empathetic from a safe emotional distance at least imo

[@juangordilloandreu3603]

Brilliant! My son , a new Pgy1 Psych resident, is right to admire you. Keep it up.

[@goldie12133]

MS4 Who just matched psych! Thanks for the advice!

[@cloreal_]

I never had a proper mentor throughtout medschool and now im about to start internship with so many doubts and fears and feeling very alone in the whole process.. this video felt like i was having a one on one with you and it truly helped to some extent. Thank you Dr Preston :) i hope ill find a mentor as calm and kind and understanding as you are

[@hanch96]

i think this metaphor with the lighthouse in the storm can have its own video, they always say "find your boundaries" but no one concretely explains what that means, how do you stay sustainably emotionally engaged like is that even possible, i almost dropped out in my third year because i was burning to a crisp being surrounded by so much suffering and i absorbed so much of it. started citalopram in fourth year and suddenly i could still hug a patient and hold their hand and notice their feelings without feeling them in my own nervous system and it was a huge huge change that i'm still working on. i think this is an important thing that would be worth expanding on in another video !!

[@konmantzios3103]

Thank you Preston, definitely going to remember these tips when I get done with Medical School and move onto Residency.

[@Oxytocyn]

What a guy! I’m starting this journey this summer and I can only hope to be a Preston! Love the content man!

[@millieme6224]

Hey Preston
I started working as a doctor just a few months after you, and I really appreciate how *real* you are. Especially your "intern diaries" series. I can't consume medicine related content because usually it feels disingenuous but you are the exception. It's like how I can't watch medical dramas but Scrubs is ok because it feels so real. You're the Scrubs of 2024.

[@rachellllhines]

your videos remind me why i fell in love with psych! ty for these tips - love from an incoming fourth year!

[@Widda68]

You have such an expressive face. How you modulate the expressions on your face greatly enhances the power of your spoken words. Therefore you make a great visual as well as auditory presentation. That is, watching you makes me hear you better. The facial close-ups make me feel in much closer proximity to you.

[@cameronsandilands5485]

I needed this today, thank you!

[@fatimanaveed9721]

CAN I PET MAGGIE
Great vid btw

[@bell10877]

Yes, super cool Maggie was so engaged in this video. Loved when you kissed her and called her sweetie patootie ❤️ and I love the plants and the artwork in the background ...

[@kas7145]

I hate the hopeless question. I have multiple sclerosis. It derailed my entire life and I likely had it 15 years before official diagnosis so there is DAMAGE. Short of some really, really miraculous leaps in medicine, I'm never getting better. That's being honest and realistic, not hopeless. It takes an immense amount of strength to say "This is my life now and I'm going to learn to live with that". To me that's better than putting all my cards in "There will be a miracle" and then crashing in ten years when there isn't.

[@itspresro]

The hopeless question can feel demeaning. It’s our job to assess if you have a realistic pulse on your situation (like with an MS prognosis) or if you are distraught out of proportion. Having a lucid understanding of the gravity of the situation does not make someone hopeless, but people bound to a template can’t really see that

[@KarimahNineOh]

That lighthouse comparison whew!!!!

[@mathsbrilliant]

Thank you so much for these words. You're incredible.

[@flojay2294]

What a wonderful ending 😌 also random but how do you have so many plants & a Maggie?? She doesn’t chew on them? My Cinnamon won’t let me have plants/flowers in peace

[@itspresro]

She just doesn’t like plants I don’t get it

[@flojay2294]

@@itspresro love this for you

[@minutemanmedic4143]

5:10 you cannot “feel” what these people feel by being a soft person. Being empathetic like that is a show of *strength* and requires significant strength of character.
Being empathetic is not a weak or soft thing.

[@emreeryigit3406]

What a legend

[@lania.m]

Thanks alot for sharing and Can i pet Maggie too ? She's great

[@aconcretemoth9382]

that cat is the best advice

[@ramizkirmani8664]

I fucked around and found out a lot during my intern year

[@lyndseyevans176]

“I” would not be able to focus if I were your patient 😍

[@pipp972]

Would you be willing to be my dad?

[@theotherredmeat]

This MD agrees that you should use the word "I" more

[@abd-animation-22]

Heavy video feelings bro
I would rather put patients to sleep and play with my sudoku

[@bell10877]

Um..... not sure if you are serious but ...please... no.

[@abd-animation-22]

@@bell10877
I am not serious obviously
It is a joke in Anesthesia

[@cazmaestro]

Where are you in your training? I've been a doctor for the last 4 years in the UK, about to start paediatric training... Does intern mean a trainee? Do you get to go straight into specialty training from med school?

[@itspresro]

Intern is first year doctor

[@cryptooooooooo]

in the US yeah you get to go straight into specialty training - it's crazy to think about. I'm in australia, probably going to be pgy-5/6 before I even get an unaccredited reg job

[@vanessaarnold882]

For "categorical" specialties like psychiatry, you go straight into the specialty (with a few rotations in applicable adjacent specialties like neuro, IM, etc). Some specialties have a separate intern year (possibly at a different institution) and then an "advanced" residency.

[@bell10877]

Gold

[@jennifercarr683]

More Magnolia!!

[@Liface]

As someone not in the medical field, why do they overwork ya'll so much? Doesn't seem healthy. Why not justice hire more doctors?

[@itspresro]

New dr training positions have to be approved by congress, its a complex gridlock with conflict of interests, politics and money

[@kevingave3153]

No sound.

[@asdfjklasdfjkl408]

Magnolia is the perfect support pet 🩷💜