No problem! You have no idea how long I’ve wanted a TH-camr to do a day in the life of for specialties I’m interested in. I’m glad you also interview other specialties to get that insider look. I’ll for sure check out the on call video!
I am a tech and a unit clerk in a rehabilitation hospital like this one. It is so fascinating working on the floor and working in the specialty in which I hope to become a physician to see all of the physical understanding of what these people go through. For instance, many patients of Asian dissent don’t like cold water because drinking ice water is less common in certain parts of Asia, which has prevented some Asian patients from comfortably drinking water and making their fluid goal. I now know to offer cold or room temperature water to patients in general in case they have a preference, which has changed the fluid consumption of certain patients. I’m glad that you were spending the time to learn more about this field instead of like other doctors just learning the prescription and ordering side of things. As for noncompliant patients who simply don’t drink enough water (and therefore have lower blood pressures, strained kidneys, and poor rehab outcomes), I have learned to become the “food police,“ where I threaten to take a pillow away from them if they don’t drink a full cup of water by the middle of the day. I’ve only had one patient wife who actually thought I was a dangerous person for doing that (she was weird and unreasonable anyway), but the rest of the patients laugh and start drinking more water in a playful response to me doing that, and that has really helped, also. If you get a chance to go in on some days and help with call lights on the floor to get a nursing staff understanding of this field of medicine, it will serve you immensely. You’ll also win the respect of nursing staff beyond all measure - I promise you.
I am an AT masters student and had an ACL patient that when I left, they had progressed to TRX squats. When I was at a later rotation, they actually were my last patient there too and it was so so so cool to work with them and be there to run them through their final return to sport session.
Hey Brian! I love this video and it was awesome seeing how a day in PMR is like. I've always wanted to be a physiatrist since I was a PT aide during undergrad, and now i'm a first year med student. So seeing these kind of vlogs really excite me! I hope you keep it up (:
RN and Premed here! I've been set on the specialty of Pathology for a long time, but definitely want to do an elective in PM&R because of how cool and valuable this specialty is. Pathology and PM&R have a reputation for being niches of medicine that have very kind people who are welcoming. On a side note, as an RN, I have personally tried the thickened water and it does indeed, taste awful! 😅
Med speech pathologist here. Started in inpatient rehab and now in acute care ( have done everything incl SNF, home care, peds etc) love the collab with PMR docs, RNs and of course rehab therapists and nutritionists.....
I have been always wanted to explore PM&R yet have not had the chance. Thank you for creating this youtube channel. I am a Biomedical engineer currently prepping for MCAT and hope to become like you and also inspired to do research beyond.
You bet, thanks for checking out the page! It's a longer path when you have this sort of non traditional background (I also did biomedical engineering!) But in the end the extra experience really helps out
Slower day on the brain injury unit: 6am Wake up, get ready ~7am Arrive at hospital 7:15am Preround and see patients 7:45am Notes 8am Bedside rounds 9am Team rounds 9:45am Watch therapies, study 11:45am Lunch 1pm Lecture (dysphasia) 2pm No new admits so study time 4:30pm Head home
That's awesome!! I know when I was applying I really was looking for something like this to learn more about the field and about medicine, so hopefully my page is helping a bit! Thanks for the kind words and don't hesitate to reach out if you have questions about anything and share this page with all you physiaty friends :)
Thank you so much for these videos! I am a current MS3 and trying to figure out what specialty path I want to do. We don't get much exposure to PM&R in school so this has been very helpful in understanding more about the field and what you do every day!
Thanks for uploading these blogs Dr. Sutterer. I’m also someone who loved what ortho surgeons do but I can’t image myself living that lifestyle.. your videos have been so insightful! Thanks again.
Absolutely love your videos! I'm trying so hard not to binge watch all of it in one day haha. Looking forward to other videos of the other inpatient services. I hope to run into you in AAPMR/AAP conferences!
Another issue with pain management is vitamin D or Dairy consumption. So for example, pain can go away with Ice Cream...like Bryars Butter Pecan (correction: I said praline)....dont ask me...but my hip achyness from an auto accident did too go away...now 17 years later in which for the last 3 to 5 years I have suffered from pain from sitting down and achyness all the time with my left glute cheek...the cheek that hit the door's arm rest of the choufer door. All that has now gone away thanks to Vitamin D. I do consume some fromage every now and then but not often nor frecuently. Except for some Mexican Pizza rarely. Only with the Ice Cream did I notice it go away. I still feel like I sit on my bone. Yes, I ate a whole cereal bowl..I'm assuming that like a pint...I wont measure. All said and done, I ate 3/4 of a half gallon over several days...really two. 😁😅🤣😂😂😂😂😂😉😊🙃🙂
Now I can focus on a full bowl of Cream of Wheat with Cayeene Pepper and Paprika, sometimes cheese when I splurgle....cheese shreads at the bottom of the bowl and top of the cream of wheat. I did break down and lost total control and enjoyed some Guava Marmalade by Goya...since I was in the mood for Paris and noticed it's low calories and maybe full of vitamins...well, I wouldn't know about the vitamins. But I did dance Footloose with a Can and not a Broom.
Thank you for the video. Ive been looking for PMR doctors on youtube ever since medical school started (Im an OMS3 now). Im deciding between FM and PMR. I was wondering what is the best way to become a good applicant for obtaining a PMR residency. I haven't taken usmle step 1/2 yet only COMLEX as a DO student. What would you recommend?
Hi, thank you for all your videos - they're incredible. I am a student interested in both PM&R and PT, however, I think my greatest interest lies in walking the patients through the PT/rehab exercises. As a Physiatrist, do you perform the PT exercises with your patients on a regular basis? Or is that primarily the responsibility of the PT staff?
We dont do the therapy with patients ever. We will commonly observe thereapy in the gyms on the rehab units just to see how things are going and if we need to help with overall progress and plan, but the therpsists are the ones doing all of that work day to day. Thanks for the kind words on the vids!! Share them around if you know others who would enjoy them and don't ever hesitate to ask about anything!
Any advice on how to build a strong application? If you want you can PM me your email or something and we can correspond there if you dont mind helping me out
Amazing video Dr. Sutterer! I am going into my senior year of high school and I am looking of going into PM&R/Orthopaedics. I just found your channel and I love the intern year rotation videos. I wanted to ask, as a PM&R doctor do you work on PT programs/diets for the patient or is it mainly revolved around doing ultrasounds? I was also wondering if you would make a video talking about why you decided on PM&R instead of going into orthopaedics; and if you would have any advice for high school students like myself wanting to go into PM&R or medicine in general, what would you recommend for us to get started on in college/what would you wish to have done differently?
I'm considering the PTA (physical therapist assistant) program at my uni so I can get into premed for this. I'd love to get into this field. Looking at a few residency places and gonna look into some med schools to study it. If you have any recommendations, ease, let me know 😅
BUT, as a 3rd year moving into 4th and having to choose: do they expect you to dress in a tie all the time? Because never. I was an EM nurse and a medic in the army, my whole goal was to go back to EM...but having second thoughts lately and PM&R is interesting
I am prepping to enter into a dpt program.i have everything lined up and now all I need to do is apply. I'm thinking about becoming a pm&r when I finish dpt. Would you advise this, should I just go directly to med school?
We only take call the months we are on the unit (6 months during pgy-2). Then it's every other weekend that we take call. There are two junior residents on each service and we alternate call weekends
Dude thank you so much for posting videos like this. These are invaluable for someone considering Physiatry
You bet!! Weekend on call one might be better. Appreciate the encouragement, helps me know they are useful :D
No problem! You have no idea how long I’ve wanted a TH-camr to do a day in the life of for specialties I’m interested in. I’m glad you also interview other specialties to get that insider look. I’ll for sure check out the on call video!
Shoot me an email some time, briansutterer@gmail.com if you have any other PMR related questions!
Alex Macias psychiatry is a great specialty
I am a tech and a unit clerk in a rehabilitation hospital like this one. It is so fascinating working on the floor and working in the specialty in which I hope to become a physician to see all of the physical understanding of what these people go through. For instance, many patients of Asian dissent don’t like cold water because drinking ice water is less common in certain parts of Asia, which has prevented some Asian patients from comfortably drinking water and making their fluid goal. I now know to offer cold or room temperature water to patients in general in case they have a preference, which has changed the fluid consumption of certain patients. I’m glad that you were spending the time to learn more about this field instead of like other doctors just learning the prescription and ordering side of things. As for noncompliant patients who simply don’t drink enough water (and therefore have lower blood pressures, strained kidneys, and poor rehab outcomes), I have learned to become the “food police,“ where I threaten to take a pillow away from them if they don’t drink a full cup of water by the middle of the day. I’ve only had one patient wife who actually thought I was a dangerous person for doing that (she was weird and unreasonable anyway), but the rest of the patients laugh and start drinking more water in a playful response to me doing that, and that has really helped, also. If you get a chance to go in on some days and help with call lights on the floor to get a nursing staff understanding of this field of medicine, it will serve you immensely. You’ll also win the respect of nursing staff beyond all measure - I promise you.
I am an AT masters student and had an ACL patient that when I left, they had progressed to TRX squats. When I was at a later rotation, they actually were my last patient there too and it was so so so cool to work with them and be there to run them through their final return to sport session.
Hey Brian! I love this video and it was awesome seeing how a day in PMR is like. I've always wanted to be a physiatrist since I was a PT aide during undergrad, and now i'm a first year med student. So seeing these kind of vlogs really excite me! I hope you keep it up (:
That's awesome! It's a great field to be in. Best of luck with your studies and reach out whenever if you have questions about anything
RN and Premed here! I've been set on the specialty of Pathology for a long time, but definitely want to do an elective in PM&R because of how cool and valuable this specialty is. Pathology and PM&R have a reputation for being niches of medicine that have very kind people who are welcoming.
On a side note, as an RN, I have personally tried the thickened water and it does indeed, taste awful! 😅
Thank you so much!! Life-changing content to watch as an MS3!
Your channel is really helpful . And you do your videos in creative way
Med speech pathologist here. Started in inpatient rehab and now in acute care ( have done everything incl SNF, home care, peds etc) love the collab with PMR docs, RNs and of course rehab therapists and nutritionists.....
I have been always wanted to explore PM&R yet have not had the chance. Thank you for creating this youtube channel. I am a Biomedical engineer currently prepping for MCAT and hope to become like you and also inspired to do research beyond.
You bet, thanks for checking out the page! It's a longer path when you have this sort of non traditional background (I also did biomedical engineering!) But in the end the extra experience really helps out
Slower day on the brain injury unit:
6am Wake up, get ready
~7am Arrive at hospital
7:15am Preround and see patients
7:45am Notes
8am Bedside rounds
9am Team rounds
9:45am Watch therapies, study
11:45am Lunch
1pm Lecture (dysphasia)
2pm No new admits so study time
4:30pm Head home
Your videos are marvellous. Thank you very much for allowing us to look at Mayo PM&R through your eyes.
Currently a MS2 - aspiring to be a Physiatrist one day.
So glad to come by your channel... Keep up the great videos, Dr. Sutterer! ^^
That's awesome!! I know when I was applying I really was looking for something like this to learn more about the field and about medicine, so hopefully my page is helping a bit! Thanks for the kind words and don't hesitate to reach out if you have questions about anything and share this page with all you physiaty friends :)
Thank you so much for these videos! I am a current MS3 and trying to figure out what specialty path I want to do. We don't get much exposure to PM&R in school so this has been very helpful in understanding more about the field and what you do every day!
You bet! Glad they are help ful and best of luck in school! Lmk if you have any other specific questions !
Super insightful vlog! Looking forward to more like these.
Thanks for uploading these blogs Dr. Sutterer. I’m also someone who loved what ortho surgeons do but I can’t image myself living that lifestyle.. your videos have been so insightful! Thanks again.
That facility is awesome! Great vids too. Occupational therapist here. Greetings from the Philippines!
Great vlog. Do some more videos portraying the whole application process to residency.
Thank you! I almost forgot the application season is about here. I will do some vids talking about applications
Nicely done Doc. It was simple but thorough. I'm glad you chose this field as a specialty #Physiatry #PM&R
Absolutely love your videos! I'm trying so hard not to binge watch all of it in one day haha. Looking forward to other videos of the other inpatient services. I hope to run into you in AAPMR/AAP conferences!
I am currently in an undergrad in rehab science. I hope to go the distance and become a pm&r physician.
I love your vlogs!!! PLEASE DO MORE🙏🙏🙏
Too hard to vlog in the hospital :/
Another issue with pain management is vitamin D or Dairy consumption. So for example, pain can go away with Ice Cream...like Bryars Butter Pecan (correction: I said praline)....dont ask me...but my hip achyness from an auto accident did too go away...now 17 years later in which for the last 3 to 5 years I have suffered from pain from sitting down and achyness all the time with my left glute cheek...the cheek that hit the door's arm rest of the choufer door. All that has now gone away thanks to Vitamin D. I do consume some fromage every now and then but not often nor frecuently. Except for some Mexican Pizza rarely. Only with the Ice Cream did I notice it go away. I still feel like I sit on my bone. Yes, I ate a whole cereal bowl..I'm assuming that like a pint...I wont measure. All said and done, I ate 3/4 of a half gallon over several days...really two. 😁😅🤣😂😂😂😂😂😉😊🙃🙂
Now I can focus on a full bowl of Cream of Wheat with Cayeene Pepper and Paprika, sometimes cheese when I splurgle....cheese shreads at the bottom of the bowl and top of the cream of wheat. I did break down and lost total control and enjoyed some Guava Marmalade by Goya...since I was in the mood for Paris and noticed it's low calories and maybe full of vitamins...well, I wouldn't know about the vitamins. But I did dance Footloose with a Can and not a Broom.
Thank you for the video. Ive been looking for PMR doctors on youtube ever since medical school started (Im an OMS3 now). Im deciding between FM and PMR. I was wondering what is the best way to become a good applicant for obtaining a PMR residency. I haven't taken usmle step 1/2 yet only COMLEX as a DO student. What would you recommend?
I really loved your video for its simplicity and precision of info! Thanks! Would you recommend PM&R for an IMG?
Hi, thank you for all your videos - they're incredible. I am a student interested in both PM&R and PT, however, I think my greatest interest lies in walking the patients through the PT/rehab exercises. As a Physiatrist, do you perform the PT exercises with your patients on a regular basis? Or is that primarily the responsibility of the PT staff?
We dont do the therapy with patients ever. We will commonly observe thereapy in the gyms on the rehab units just to see how things are going and if we need to help with overall progress and plan, but the therpsists are the ones doing all of that work day to day. Thanks for the kind words on the vids!! Share them around if you know others who would enjoy them and don't ever hesitate to ask about anything!
Current MS3 planning on applying PMR, super helpful video keep making more pls
You bet! The goal is to help all med students and residents but to start doing more with PMR : D
Any advice on how to build a strong application? If you want you can PM me your email or something and we can correspond there if you dont mind helping me out
briansutterer@gmail.com shoot me an email 👍
I wish you can do video talking about study tips for medical students. it really well be so helpful
thank you Dr. Sutter, in what direction do you see tbi treatment heading in the future? stroke survivor here
Keep posting videos like this
great video doc. appreciate the insight. also, background music is dope.
Amazing video Dr. Sutterer! I am going into my senior year of high school and I am looking of going into PM&R/Orthopaedics. I just found your channel and I love the intern year rotation videos. I wanted to ask, as a PM&R doctor do you work on PT programs/diets for the patient or is it mainly revolved around doing ultrasounds? I was also wondering if you would make a video talking about why you decided on PM&R instead of going into orthopaedics; and if you would have any advice for high school students like myself wanting to go into PM&R or medicine in general, what would you recommend for us to get started on in college/what would you wish to have done differently?
Thanks David! Always great to hear about students with an interest in the field! Those topics are on my list of things to discuss 👍
Idk why this popped up on my feed today but ayyyy this dope
Please keep posting videos about PM&R.
Precious sent me here thanks Dr. appreciate you! New sub here!
Woo!! So nice of her to post that! Thanks for watching :D
It’s cool medicine can be a blast and fun.
Bro you deserve a lot more views.
Appreciate it! It will grow in time :D
Exactly!!!
i agree nectar thick isnt fun stroke survior here
I am in med school just now and I am planning on specialising in neurological surgery
I'm considering the PTA (physical therapist assistant) program at my uni so I can get into premed for this. I'd love to get into this field. Looking at a few residency places and gonna look into some med schools to study it. If you have any recommendations, ease, let me know 😅
BUT, as a 3rd year moving into 4th and having to choose: do they expect you to dress in a tie all the time? Because never. I was an EM nurse and a medic in the army, my whole goal was to go back to EM...but having second thoughts lately and PM&R is interesting
And thickened water is horrific
You “headed into” the brain injury unit. Did you catch that? Love the video.
what drugs do you usually use for TBI patient for their cognition?
I kinda wanna be a doctor now
Can we visit with your patients? They must love a caring Doc like you.
Cool!!
I am prepping to enter into a dpt program.i have everything lined up and now all I need to do is apply. I'm thinking about becoming a pm&r when I finish dpt. Would you advise this, should I just go directly to med school?
I’m aspiring to be a doctor not sure what type yet but I’m looking at videos to help my interest .
Very interesting! Thank you so much for this!
This sounds like alot of work! 😂 in one day
Do you wear scrubs ever?
do PMR doctors always dress up for rounds?
Are physiatrists hands on with patients? Do they actually train and exercise their patients or is that strictly the therapists who are under you?
Therapists do the hands on work. We do lots of injections and ultrasound stuff in the msk setting though!
New subbie!😁😁😁
Welcome!!
How tall are you?
Amazing career. Do you do brain surgery?
No. I'm a physical med and rehab doctor
Brian Sutterer MD wow. Awesome.
Hiii new subbie here! Im just wondering what do the night duty residents do? 😊
How many calls do you take a month?
We only take call the months we are on the unit (6 months during pgy-2). Then it's every other weekend that we take call. There are two junior residents on each service and we alternate call weekends
Great video BTW
1st time I've seen you in pants! Ok, ok, 1st time I've seen a video of you wearing pants! 😁
Damn this man is late lol