#26 Internal Medicine Resident Interview - Lifestyle, Extracurriculars, and Finding Your Voice

Gillian is from the larger Philadelphia area and initially studied Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Scranton and worked in social services as a Case Manager after college. She then transitioned to Vaccine Development NIH-funded research as a clinical coordinator at the University of Vermont while taking pre-med classes. She attended medical school at Penn State College of Medicine, where she also earned her Masters in Education and was recognized with the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine award and the Gold Humanism Honor Society. During medical school, she also held multiple statewide and national positions such as Chair for the Committee on Bioethics & Humanities for the American Medical Association-Medical Student Section, Board of Trustee for the Pennsylvania Medical Society, State Director on the Pennsylvania Political Action Committee Board of Directors for the Pennsylvania Medical Society. She was served as an Editorial Fellow with the AMA Journal of Ethics in 2019. She matched at TJUH in Internal Medicine where she was recognized with multiple teaching awards including Hobart Amory Hare Resident Teaching Award, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and teaching award, and the Darilyn Moyer, MD, FACP Professionalism Award for Trainees in Southeastern PA. She is interested in a career in academic hospital medicine and medical education crafting curriculum that incorporates health system science and humanism topics in medicine.
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0:00 - Intro
1:29 - Statistics About Internal Medicine
3:55 - What Is Internal Medicine?
7:25 - Why Internal Medicine?
15:18 - What Was IM Residency Like?
17:23 - Plans for Designing a Curriculum
19:22 - Shooting Incident at the Hospital
23:02 - Best Thing About Being an IM Doctor
26:09 - Worst Thing About Being an IM Doctor
27:14 - Work Intensity and an Average Day as a Resident
34:14 - The Best Year of Residency
35:19 - An Average Outpatient Day/Week
38:32 - If I Give You $100 Million, What Would You Do?
43:56 - Things You Wish You Knew Before Coming Into IM
45:33 - Characteristics of a Student Best for IM
50:00 - Advice for People Looking Into Internal Medicine
51:22 - Maximizing Competitiveness Going Into IM Residency
54:03 - Things Learned From Residency
56:53 - Common Mistakes
1:00:49 - Positive Qualities & Characteristics You Admire
1:03:05 - Closing Message
1:04:14 - Outro
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[@Dreamsofahomesickalien]

As a now Premed who works as a nurse (RN), I love this channel! I was initially inspired by the channel NDMD with Andy's style of 73 questions and just discovered this channel - really am enjoying these videos and interview questions for similar content. Thank you!! Also, special thanks for interviewing Pathology (I hope to become a pathologist and the interview you did with Dr. Goldberg reaffirmed that).

[@JN-kk4nk]

Great interview as always Zach !

[@jaylaw.7660]

This is so helpful and insightful Zach, thank you!❤️💛

[@Pritzelita]

Hey Zach, I loved the interview! Been listening to all of your episodes the last few weeks, looking forward to the next one! I also hope you interview a hematologist/oncologist in the future! Another IM subspecialty that I personally find super interesting!!

[@quintinnaro4546]

I go to the u of Scranton. Great to see someone from there on here

[@Somalidoc321]

This is so damn informative for medical students !!! Thanks Zach

[@Neuroinfantryangel]

Zach posted? More knowledge. Love it.

[@eddiedixon5432]

Hey Zach, love these podcasts! Do you know any pm&r/pain docs to interview?

[@alaobolaji8712]

Zach, we need you to interview a spine orthopaedic surgeon 😢

[@tonydanty172]

True

[@nathanvega9251]

Interview an oral and maxillofacial surgeon

[@Anas-mn3ll]

Neurologist also 👍

[@sjf96]

That bit about playing the game with attendings' egos about their subspecialties is on point, but still disappointing.
Neurology is boring in practice and fascinating to think about.
Psych is depressing in the inpatient setting.
Surgeons work a lot until they're attending, then they work a lot on things they actually want to work on.
I don't think I'm going to BS my neuro preceptor when that rotation comes. I'm nontraditional, and I think they'll be glad I'm being a straightforward adult about things.
But maybe that's naive, because evals are so subjective???

[@michaelscott33]

Hmm, the average salary being $230,000 is much less than anything you’ll earn around here. We start hospitalist internists at $400,000 and potential to earn $650-700,000 if you hit every bonus.

[@shanegremory900]

Please interview a heme oncologist