To be honest cardiology is the only thing that helped me keep having faith in my career path and going on Im dealing with loads of problems right now which are causing me to seriosly consider calling quit but this video was a nice reminder of what really kept me going in all my med school years and I really appreciate it thank you
Man, this video of yours gives me reasons of what kind of specialty i wanna go into, and i happen to start my clerkship in cards. Thank you so much, doc! 🙏
Cardiology was my main specialty goal when going into medical school but after hearing your perspective it has broadened my thought process. Your content is So informative and helpful and has truly helped me navigate this career 💜
I feel super tired after memorizing, but I hate using many equation, so I am perplexed on what to go for. But I do love all things medicine. I really love seeing medical professionals commenting on youtube. I love this community
Just curious a lot of your points…Logical field, fascinating physiology, tight feedback loop/rapid changes, procedural, variety/sub specialization (purely OR vs purely interventional in clinic), instant gratification … relate to anesthesia as well + shorter residency + no rounding + no ego ..Where does anesthesia stand in your fav / least fav non surgical specialities ? Next episode maybe?
Bro no ways Kevin would work in the OR and not be the surgeon. Especially with how he’s gone on about how much he loved operating and being a surgeon. People who go into anaesthesia would never do surgery and people in surgery would never be in anaesthesia. It’s such a different job and takes two very different people to be happy doing them.
The main negative is wasting time with 3 years in IM. Need to combine IM+Cards in 5 years. Need to have at least real PTCA of at least 500 cases as primary. Leave time for additional training EP or structural heart disease, etc.
You can say that for all the IM subspecialties if you decide to do a fellowship. But IM residency followed by fellowship has been around forever in the US. Don't think that is going to change.
You can’t say a long training path for cardiology Cause you are taking a similar path of years in plastics (you will also pursue a fellowship in plastics and on top a 5 year plastic residency those add up )
You should do a ‘Why I Didn’t” for Pathology and Radiology. Neither of these specialties fall neatly into the Surgery vs Medical paradigm, and I’d be interested to hear your thoughts as I get ready to start 3rd year clerkships!
Can you do a video about why women are not appreciated doing surgery like why many patients prefer males for their surgical procedure over female surgeons?????? It is very much difficult to earn a name in surgery for a woman especially here in my country
also my favorite preclinical subject.. the only thing that turns me off is that u gotta do IM residency beforehand. what do you think of neurology? would love to see why i didn't neurology
I would agree with much of that and, yet, I came to the opposite conclusion. I was within a month of completing my cardiology fellowship when I was offered a residency in surgery with a guaranteed cardiac surgery fellowship at a 1000 bed med. school referral hospital. My surgical ability, tissue handling, etc. when implanting permanent pacing systems and interest in cardiac surgery during OR rotations drew their attention. I declined the offer. I enjoyed the variety of clinical cardiology more than the personal satisfaction of performing the same operations again and again each time striving for absolute perfection. Nonetheless, there were 2 occasions when I had to perform emergency left lateral thoracotomies. They went well. How's that for variety and excitement? I also set our hospital's record for code duration...6 hr. on 2 occasion. One pt. had already been pronounced dead when I was just passing by and looked into the room. Both pts. left the hospital without sequelae. More intellectual challenges. It's hard to imagine a more exciting field. I did nuclear, vascular and cardiac ultrasound, invasive monitoring, critical and intensive care, electrophysiology , stress testing, etc. It's hard to imagine a more intellectually stimulating and personally fulfilling career choice. I would caution those interested in the subspecialty that staying up to date is difficult...far more demanding than med. school. So, if you are not a very good student it may not be the field for you.
You are saying you were a Cardiology attending and someone offered you a general surgery PGY-1 spot? How generous of them…losing a Cardiology attending salary for 7 years sounds like a great idea 💡
@@alexanderkudinov6085 No, I was finishing my fellowship and, therefore, not yet an attending. I would have started surgery as a second year with credit for IM and Card. Yup, financially unwise and I did not like standing for hrs., often at odd times, doing surgery.
@@wholeNwon Sounds like you were 5 minutes away from finishing your fellowship. PGY-2 spot with 7 more years of training? Losing an attending cardiology salary for 7 years in terms of finances is something you can never catch up. I am surprised someone would even approach you with such an offer.
@@alexanderkudinov6085 All true but he was a very famous chief of surgery, major textbook author, etc. There were very few CT surgery fellowships in the country at that time and they were highly competitive. Anyhow, I thought about it for about 3 min. during skin closure and declined the offer. It turned out to be the right decision. Even worse though, I turned down an ophthalmology residency offer when I was a senior med. student!!! It was directly from the new chief at one of the most famous eye hospitals in the country. That was probably a huge mistake and my reason was that I really didn't enjoy my exposure to eye surgery, esp. in children. He then offered it to one of my classmates who accepted immediately.
@@alexanderkudinov6085 It's not always about money. It was a very highly regarded program staffed by some of the leading surgeons in the country. They attracted applicants who were among the best students anywhere and they reached out to me. It was flattering to have been noticed by an entirely different dept. in a very large med. center.
I am pretty sure I know the reason why already, but GI would be pretty interesting to cover since it's just as competitive as cardiology that stems from internal medicine.
The series is useful, as it allows people to think from a different perspective than their own. And consider things from a different angle, that they would not have done otherwise. How about why I didn't radiology, dermatology and internal medicine
Hey! Amazing video!:) I have a question. I have always been super interested in cardiology and I just finished cardiovascular physiology. And tbh I really liked it, but it was also pretty hard for me and I struggled a lot with some topics. I am a bit lost because I feel like cardiology might not be for me because I don’t know if I can manage it.. Any tips?:)
if I was in your position I would focus more on making sure you truly like the physiology and find it interesting. if you're not good at it - who cares, there is no way you are not going to get good at it after 3 years internal medicine and 3 years of cardiology. also just think of the lifestyle when you're in your 50s. at some point work becomes work and you just want to go home and chill, cardiology may not be the best for that
Oh i did like cardio when i got into medschool but then in the last years i realise it gives u so much stress and in most cases ur patients are chronic and not getting any better
I was Diffenetly sure when I was in college that I was going to pick cardiology in med school, but after The reality of it hitting me hard, I had to change to Radiology 😄😄😄
The ego comment is legit - Egos in academic cardiology are a nightmare, but I found private practice way more chill. Cardiologists who can't interface with other providers/staff just don't do as well in private practice IMHO.
It's funny you bring this book. In French "comment ca marche". It was my brothers favorite book growing up. My parents bought it because he was such a curious child and was always asking "Dad how is this or that working?".
Amazing video!! Quick question. If you always preferred reasoning over memorization and you went into plastic surgery. This begs a question: About how much anatomy memorization does one do in Plastic Surgery Residency? I’m also a reasoning > memorization kinda guy, but I was put off when I saw how intricately specific the anatomy in a Plastic Surgery textbook is. Is there a trick to it or I actually have to know the course of every tiny muscle in the body? 😧
Medicine is largely memorization over critical thinking across most specialties. You can make the case for critical thinking with vent settings or complicated cases, but I would argue the level of critical thinking is still an order of magnitude less than something like engineering or programming.
Not sure why length of training was a downside? For someone who went into plastics and was aiming toward surgical, how would time of training be negative. An integrated PS residency is already 6 years, which is the same as IM + General Cards. I understand that you were mostly concerned about IM but in the end if someone really wanted cards, they wouldn't mind having to do the 3 years of IM, knowing it needs to be done to accomplish their goal.
My only problem is I'm more interested in chemistry and so good at it and in the mean time i hate physic and its equations and rules but the problem is i like cardiology too much 😂 so im stuck even though I'm still far from that path
great videos! not just this one but all of them, on both channels, love it! btw you dont look like someone that likes neurological pathologies...moreso the pace of development and treatment of neurologic diseases. but you seem to like the nervous system..did you ever even consider neurology?
I’m surprised you chose to do an episode on cardiology and not cardiothoracic surgery. Especially with how you clearly saw yourself more surgical than medical. I’d have thought after neurosurgery and orthopaedic surgery that cardiothoracic surgery would have been next on your list!
Just finished our Cardio block. Between that and shadowing a Cardiologist....I found it so boring. I enjoyed Renal much more. Next up is Pulm. No idea what I'll think about that.
I’m a second year medical student in Romania and currently I learn about cardiovascular physiology. The thing is that I’ve always been interested in the heart and the way it functions, ever since my premed years. Although I haven’t been good in math and physics in school, I found physics especially interesting. My question is: can I still become a cardiologist even if I’m not good at math and physics and don’t have that sharp and quick thinking but I do like the topic?
I don't like cardiology very much, because it's a field where mistakes almost ever have fatal outcomes and generally you don't have time to think about your problem: you must have an answer/protocol right away or the patient dies. I feel like you don't have enough time to find a rationale: everything looks like an emergency.
I love cardiology even while in elementary school but I find myself working more in ER when I became a doctor. I am not sure I quit enjoy the fast pace and non break of ER but at this stage I don't know if I can still go back to cardiology. Is there any path of migrating from ER to Cardiology after I eventually become an ER specialist
Thought you were asking about residency. Plastic surgery residency and then decided to leave that to focus on entrepreneurship. Now I run Med School Insiders, Memm, Jubbal & Cars, and more.
Cardiology is not the most competitive IM subspecialty. Looking at your % chance of matching it is easily outranked every recent year by GI which has actually been the most competitive fellowship for many years now.
Someone needs to applaud this doc’s production quality
To be honest cardiology is the only thing that helped me keep having faith in my career path and going on Im dealing with loads of problems right now which are causing me to seriosly consider calling quit but this video was a nice reminder of what really kept me going in all my med school years and I really appreciate it thank you
think about the cash
@@kingob.1959right lol
Man, this video of yours gives me reasons of what kind of specialty i wanna go into, and i happen to start my clerkship in cards. Thank you so much, doc! 🙏
What is specialty you want?
Cardiology was my main specialty goal when going into medical school but after hearing your perspective it has broadened my thought process. Your content is So informative and helpful and has truly helped me navigate this career 💜
OMG I’m currently in a pulmonary block for my SMP & I LOVE it! I hate memorizing, so I struggled in other physiology blocks, but now I’m thriving
I feel super tired after memorizing, but I hate using many equation, so I am perplexed on what to go for. But I do love all things medicine. I really love seeing medical professionals commenting on youtube. I love this community
I memorized the whole Oxford book in three months. I had hated being stressed. Now I’m headed for robins basic pathology
I'm an intern interested in cardiology. This video made me love cardio more lol
Hell yes!
Thanks a lot Jay for the video. Don't have any thing to say as much , just love your videos where you tell your experience.
Just curious a lot of your points…Logical field, fascinating physiology, tight feedback loop/rapid changes, procedural, variety/sub specialization (purely OR vs purely interventional in clinic), instant gratification
… relate to anesthesia as well + shorter residency + no rounding + no ego ..Where does anesthesia stand in your fav / least fav non surgical specialities ?
Next episode maybe?
Yes I will do an episode on anesthesiology too! Thanks Rex!
@@kevinjubbalmd neurosurgeon is the best
@@kevinjubbalmd I wish I could become a self thought doctor lol
Bro no ways Kevin would work in the OR and not be the surgeon. Especially with how he’s gone on about how much he loved operating and being a surgeon. People who go into anaesthesia would never do surgery and people in surgery would never be in anaesthesia. It’s such a different job and takes two very different people to be happy doing them.
This is a great and well thought out video. Love this series!
Thank for motivating me as I watch your videos in my breaks of studying for my med school accepting exam🙏🏼
Thank you Kevin for this! I had been in a conundrum regarding my specialization. This really helps and solves a lot of my current Issues.
Great points doc! Defer rest of video to primary team
Thank you Kevin for this episode 👌 ! can you do one WID on ENT ?
The main negative is wasting time with 3 years in IM. Need to combine IM+Cards in 5 years. Need to have at least real PTCA of at least 500 cases as primary. Leave time for additional training EP or structural heart disease, etc.
You can say that for all the IM subspecialties if you decide to do a fellowship. But IM residency followed by fellowship has been around forever in the US. Don't think that is going to change.
that timing tho haha was just learning about ECGs for an exam tomorrow when I saw your video
You can’t say a long training path for cardiology
Cause you are taking a similar path of years in plastics (you will also pursue a fellowship in plastics and on top a 5 year plastic residency those add up )
Really good arguments. Well-thought and all makes sense.
You should do a ‘Why I Didn’t” for Pathology and Radiology. Neither of these specialties fall neatly into the Surgery vs Medical paradigm, and I’d be interested to hear your thoughts as I get ready to start 3rd year clerkships!
Can you do a video about why women are not appreciated doing surgery like why many patients prefer males for their surgical procedure over female surgeons??????
It is very much difficult to earn a name in surgery for a woman especially here in my country
What country you're from?
also my favorite preclinical subject.. the only thing that turns me off is that u gotta do IM residency beforehand. what do you think of neurology? would love to see why i didn't neurology
I would agree with much of that and, yet, I came to the opposite conclusion. I was within a month of completing my cardiology fellowship when I was offered a residency in surgery with a guaranteed cardiac surgery fellowship at a 1000 bed med. school referral hospital.
My surgical ability, tissue handling, etc. when implanting permanent pacing systems and interest in cardiac surgery during OR rotations drew their attention. I declined the offer.
I enjoyed the variety of clinical cardiology more than the personal satisfaction of performing the same operations again and again each time striving for absolute perfection. Nonetheless, there were 2 occasions when I had to perform emergency left lateral thoracotomies. They went well. How's that for variety and excitement? I also set our hospital's record for code duration...6 hr. on 2 occasion. One pt. had already been pronounced dead when I was just passing by and looked into the room. Both pts. left the hospital without sequelae. More intellectual challenges. It's hard to imagine a more exciting field. I did nuclear, vascular and cardiac ultrasound, invasive monitoring, critical and intensive care, electrophysiology , stress testing, etc. It's hard to imagine a more intellectually stimulating and personally fulfilling career choice. I would caution those interested in the subspecialty that staying up to date is difficult...far more demanding than med. school. So, if you are not a very good student it may not be the field for you.
You are saying you were a Cardiology attending and someone offered you a general surgery PGY-1 spot? How generous of them…losing a Cardiology attending salary for 7 years sounds like a great idea 💡
@@alexanderkudinov6085 No, I was finishing my fellowship and, therefore, not yet an attending. I would have started surgery as a second year with credit for IM and Card. Yup, financially unwise and I did not like standing for hrs., often at odd times, doing surgery.
@@wholeNwon Sounds like you were 5 minutes away from finishing your fellowship. PGY-2 spot with 7 more years of training? Losing an attending cardiology salary for 7 years in terms of finances is something you can never catch up. I am surprised someone would even approach you with such an offer.
@@alexanderkudinov6085 All true but he was a very famous chief of surgery, major textbook author, etc. There were very few CT surgery fellowships in the country at that time and they were highly competitive. Anyhow, I thought about it for about 3 min. during skin closure and declined the offer. It turned out to be the right decision. Even worse though, I turned down an ophthalmology residency offer when I was a senior med. student!!! It was directly from the new chief at one of the most famous eye hospitals in the country. That was probably a huge mistake and my reason was that I really didn't enjoy my exposure to eye surgery, esp. in children. He then offered it to one of my classmates who accepted immediately.
@@alexanderkudinov6085 It's not always about money. It was a very highly regarded program staffed by some of the leading surgeons in the country.
They attracted applicants who were among the best students anywhere and they reached out to me. It was flattering to have been noticed by an entirely different dept. in a very large med. center.
Why I didn’t…Otolaryngology !
I am pretty sure I know the reason why already, but GI would be pretty interesting to cover since it's just as competitive as cardiology that stems from internal medicine.
Have an episode on that! Check out the why I didn’t playlists t
I’m in respiratory therapy school and an inspiring pulmonologist. Could you please do a video on Pulmonology?
*aspiring* not inspiring
pulmonologist is a physician, you are not a physician.
The series is useful, as it allows people to think from a different perspective than their own. And consider things from a different angle, that they would not have done otherwise. How about why I didn't radiology, dermatology and internal medicine
Hey!
Amazing video!:) I have a question. I have always been super interested in cardiology and I just finished cardiovascular physiology. And tbh I really liked it, but it was also pretty hard for me and I struggled a lot with some topics. I am a bit lost because I feel like cardiology might not be for me because I don’t know if I can manage it..
Any tips?:)
if I was in your position I would focus more on making sure you truly like the physiology and find it interesting. if you're not good at it - who cares, there is no way you are not going to get good at it after 3 years internal medicine and 3 years of cardiology. also just think of the lifestyle when you're in your 50s. at some point work becomes work and you just want to go home and chill, cardiology may not be the best for that
@@QwertySkill thank you:)
Oh i did like cardio when i got into medschool but then in the last years i realise it gives u so much stress and in most cases ur patients are chronic and not getting any better
Not really so.
I didn’t even make it to medical school and basically flunked out in college but I love watching the series. Perhaps planning for my next lifetime.
Ha love it
Ikr. Just dropped my bchm class. Hope I make it to graduating
Great vid! Quick question, why didn't you pursue cardiothoracic surgery then? Thanks!
Dr. Jubbal, do you edit and film your own videos?
I was Diffenetly sure when I was in college that I was going to pick cardiology in med school, but after The reality of it hitting me hard, I had to change to Radiology 😄😄😄
Why I didn’t ophthalmology. Also can you do a so you want to be an optometrist? Would love to see the non surgical part of eye care
The ego comment is legit - Egos in academic cardiology are a nightmare, but I found private practice way more chill. Cardiologists who can't interface with other providers/staff just don't do as well in private practice IMHO.
great video.... everything you said is true..... and thats why i became ...... a cardiologist ;)
It's funny you bring this book. In French "comment ca marche". It was my brothers favorite book growing up. My parents bought it because he was such a curious child and was always asking "Dad how is this or that working?".
Why I didn't Oncology
Amazing video!!
Quick question. If you always preferred reasoning over memorization and you went into plastic surgery. This begs a question:
About how much anatomy memorization does one do in Plastic Surgery Residency? I’m also a reasoning > memorization kinda guy, but I was put off when I saw how intricately specific the anatomy in a Plastic Surgery textbook is. Is there a trick to it or I actually have to know the course of every tiny muscle in the body? 😧
Medicine is largely memorization over critical thinking across most specialties. You can make the case for critical thinking with vent settings or complicated cases, but I would argue the level of critical thinking is still an order of magnitude less than something like engineering or programming.
How about Interventional Radiology next ? Thanks!
Not sure why length of training was a downside? For someone who went into plastics and was aiming toward surgical, how would time of training be negative. An integrated PS residency is already 6 years, which is the same as IM + General Cards. I understand that you were mostly concerned about IM but in the end if someone really wanted cards, they wouldn't mind having to do the 3 years of IM, knowing it needs to be done to accomplish their goal.
Why I didn't neurology? Thx
Can you do why I didn't want to be a cardio thoracic surgeon
Can you do a video on Anesthesiology
Yes
Bruh
Sir I've a question for u... Can u please tell what are your specializations?
My only problem is I'm more interested in chemistry and so good at it and in the mean time i hate physic and its equations and rules but the problem is i like cardiology too much 😂 so im stuck even though I'm still far from that path
Informative! Thank you Kevin!
Thanks for watching buddy
@@kevinjubbalmd My pleasure!
Hey, would you mind doing interventional radiology?
Kindly make a video on pathology ….
wow just as i was thinking if i really should pursue cardiology and you just posted a video about it. thanks a lot!!
What’s up Kevin I got admitted this cycle and I have no idea what to pick lol.
Congrats! You got time
Curious to know why CT wasn’t on your list?
great videos! not just this one but all of them, on both channels, love it!
btw you dont look like someone that likes neurological pathologies...moreso the pace of development and treatment of neurologic diseases. but you seem to like the nervous system..did you ever even consider neurology?
Will address this in WID Neurology
I’m surprised you chose to do an episode on cardiology and not cardiothoracic surgery. Especially with how you clearly saw yourself more surgical than medical. I’d have thought after neurosurgery and orthopaedic surgery that cardiothoracic surgery would have been next on your list!
More episodes in the works :)
Just finished our Cardio block. Between that and shadowing a Cardiologist....I found it so boring. I enjoyed Renal much more. Next up is Pulm. No idea what I'll think about that.
Different strokes!
@@kevinjubbalmd Absolutely!
why I didn't neurology next please?
Listen, its not a popular opinion, but the danger squiggles are cool. I can stare at them all day.
what are your thoughts on "doctor" Berg
Why you didn’t emergency medicine
Now you need a “Why I didn’t …PLASTICS”
It’s there already!
can you do one for cardiac surgery?
Yes
My jaw dropped and tears ran thru my eyes when you said if u like maths & physics then you will like pulmonolgy & cardio exactly what i love🤯😱
Beautiful!
I did, too, but I don't think that affected my ability to be a cardiologist.
Please make a why I didn't ophthalmology.
Yes! Will have this in the future
Do radiology next
Seeing this after I matched into cardiology 😎
All the best to you. Great choice!
Omg these ARE BETTER! Lol nice tea suggestion 👍🏼
Much Love Kevin! Great overview of Cardiology
Pls make same vdeo with u didnt cardiothorasic surgery.... plss...
how about the radiation exposure in interventional cardiology?
Everyone is monitored for absorbed dose. Hospitals have radiation safety officers.
Thanks for the video I really appreciate the insite. It is super helpful in a wholesome view of the specialties
Love the Patagucci!
Lolll the long training path says the plastic surgeon 😂😂
EP is the best well kept secret of medicine.
Addicted to your voice
Can you do a video on neurology🥺
I’m a second year medical student in Romania and currently I learn about cardiovascular physiology. The thing is that I’ve always been interested in the heart and the way it functions, ever since my premed years. Although I haven’t been good in math and physics in school, I found physics especially interesting. My question is: can I still become a cardiologist even if I’m not good at math and physics and don’t have that sharp and quick thinking but I do like the topic?
Of course. I am sure that I never used anything other than basic arithmetic even though I taught cardiac intensive care for many years.
I don't like cardiology very much, because it's a field where mistakes almost ever have fatal outcomes and generally you don't have time to think about your problem: you must have an answer/protocol right away or the patient dies. I feel like you don't have enough time to find a rationale: everything looks like an emergency.
And many of the crises seem to occur at about 3 a.m. The heart doc has to be alert when others aren't.
can you do Why I didn't.. Radiology?
I love cardiology even while in elementary school but I find myself working more in ER when I became a doctor. I am not sure I quit enjoy the fast pace and non break of ER but at this stage I don't know if I can still go back to cardiology. Is there any path of migrating from ER to Cardiology after I eventually become an ER specialist
My husband is an interventional cardiologist, he’s a cerebral stud and yes he has a medium sized ego (he doesn’t think so of course) 😅
He probably earned it.
When he started with love for physics and maths I said say no more cause that's nor me 😂😂
Mr. Kevin can you do "why I didn't oncology" in The near future
Awesome as always
Big love 💕
Why I didn't Anesthesiology : )
It’s coming soon
Why I didn't anesthesiology
Bro what DID you do?
I went into plastics residency!
@@kevinjubbalmd Oh, i thought you said you were a plastic surgery dropout?😮
Thought you were asking about residency. Plastic surgery residency and then decided to leave that to focus on entrepreneurship. Now I run Med School Insiders, Memm, Jubbal & Cars, and more.
Why i didn't...oncology pleeeeaaassseee
Please do one for vascular surgery.
The tea sipping just reminds me of the Kermit the frog meme’s😂
Why not ophthalmology?
"So obviously, I lov€ pro¢edure$"
Surgical sub specialty or bust 😎
Omg this tea is so good 😂
Cardiothoracic Surgery/Heart Transplant?
Transplant surgery has become a subspecialty of CT.
Cardiology is not the most competitive IM subspecialty. Looking at your % chance of matching it is easily outranked every recent year by GI which has actually been the most competitive fellowship for many years now.
Why I didn't: military medicine
Are bhaiyya ek speciality to kar lo
Cards is ****** Goated
'College on steroids' 😭😭
Where's he at? I wanna know what tea that is....how is nobody asking about the tea.