Hello Swammi
Can someone please tell me what i am going to do for the rest of my life. please!? I find it agonizing trying and decide what residency i want to do. Every time i think of a cool specialty, I get excited. I focus on ones that I have experience in and that I can see myself doing in 25 years. I try to not let income affect my decision. If i hate my job in 10 years, no amount of pay is going to make me want to go to work. And medicine is a job where you have to WANT to go to work. It ain't easy. then I check around with the departments and my friends that are doctors as to what the specialty is really like. Then i ask my classmates what it is like. this can go good or bad. On one hand they may have some experience with it and give you some good advice. on the other hand they may be interested in that specialty. This is where the conversations can get awkward. you all know what i am talking about. you get a little shifty eyed, then accusational, then the anxiety sets in and you explode into a barrage of questions as to why i am inquiring about this specialty.
"Do i know anyone in the department?"
"Have i started shadowing it yet?"
"i have been thinking about this all my life" (lies)
"why are you taking my spot from me!!!"
Finally this ends with someone trying to mark their territory and then the peeing begins. You don't want to smell the anxiety laced urine of a med student this late in the year.
Don't get me wrong i am not singling anyone out. Hell i am as competitive as the next person. I don't like to loose. I get that little pang in my stomach when i hear that someone else is interested in the same residency spot that i am. however i don't think that sneaking around about your residency makes any sense. Also, just because you have been thinking about this residency since your entered medical school that doesn't make it your residency. You cant claim it and you cant be mad at someone who wants it. but what ever keeps you off the ledge man.
now back to studying. I know i will regret this statement but, 'I CANT WAIT TO GET OUT OF THE CLASSROOM" as of May 27, I have no more tests this year until i write my board exams during clerkship. no more reading shitty notes and regurgitating facts that have no tangible meaning to me. I hope i can start to answer questions soon with a face in my mind of a patient i treated who had this similar scenario. I hope.
Stay Loose
AK
"Do i know anyone in the department?"
"Have i started shadowing it yet?"
"i have been thinking about this all my life" (lies)
"why are you taking my spot from me!!!"
Finally this ends with someone trying to mark their territory and then the peeing begins. You don't want to smell the anxiety laced urine of a med student this late in the year.
Don't get me wrong i am not singling anyone out. Hell i am as competitive as the next person. I don't like to loose. I get that little pang in my stomach when i hear that someone else is interested in the same residency spot that i am. however i don't think that sneaking around about your residency makes any sense. Also, just because you have been thinking about this residency since your entered medical school that doesn't make it your residency. You cant claim it and you cant be mad at someone who wants it. but what ever keeps you off the ledge man.
now back to studying. I know i will regret this statement but, 'I CANT WAIT TO GET OUT OF THE CLASSROOM" as of May 27, I have no more tests this year until i write my board exams during clerkship. no more reading shitty notes and regurgitating facts that have no tangible meaning to me. I hope i can start to answer questions soon with a face in my mind of a patient i treated who had this similar scenario. I hope.
Stay Loose
AK
posted by The Sneaky Dog at
2:34 p.m.
1 Comments:
Like you say, don't let the bastards get you down.
Keep your mind open this coming year. You might be surprised about what you end up liking. Quite a few people end up in residencies they never thought about when they started as a lowly first-year med student, and this has always been a good thing.
Or they choose internal medicine as a default because they don't like anything in particular really, end up in a program that works them like dogs and treats them like crap, and end up hating being a physician entirely.
So, yeah, keep your mind open.
There are a lot of fields out there that you'll probably never even see during med school, that are not only interesting, but actually even pay well.
Don't get fooled into thinking that Surgery, Medicine, OB/GYN, Peds, and Psych are the only games in town.
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