*If you think you're not smart enough to become a doctor, think again.* Everyone starts out the same: helpless sacks of meat, knowing nothing except how to breathe, drink, and sleep. Not everyone is destined to be a doctor, but don't let "I'm too dumb" be the ONLY reason you have for not pursuing a medical career you're interested in. Actually, this goes for any career. Have a good day, fellow internet stranger friend :)
Unfortunately, intelligence is also largely genetic, lol. Definitely not the only factor, but it is a false image to say that we are all on a level playing field. Dozens of other factors also make the playing field uneven. Socioeconomic status, upbringing (more or less enriching environments), etc.
Amen! I had lower scores in high school compared to my friends, went into another degree, and 2 years later I'm starting med school! Brains are great but passion is also important
@@afarensis9720 in my faculty with 150+ students in the first class, there are even dumb ones who can't grasp the difference between strong and weak acids but get along by memorizing everything
O K The video isn’t stating that psychiatry is an easy specialty. It is stating that it is EASIER to MATCH INTO. You’re confused, I am a PA student at Creighton University and i have also heard this
O K Psychiatry is an extremely hard specialty but the point of this video is to indicate which specialties are easier to GET INTO. Watch the video before you attack people for stating what the video said.
There’s one with the AAMC but idk how accurate it is and it’s long. Like it said that may brother who is in anesthesia should go into path or derm and it said I (I want to do derm) should do anesthesia
Shauna Schiffman I know this is generic advice, but I advise that you be selfish in what specialty you choose. Of course choose a job that will make you happy, but also make sure it doesn’t mess with the kind of lifestyle you want to live. I am an emergency doc, and I love working in the ER but I enjoy having half the month (at least) off...AND NO PAGER! I guess what I am trying to say is that we all felt this calling to be a doctor. And we have all made sacrifices to serve others. But you got to put yourself in the forefront when you choose a specialty. Your patients will benefit significantly from you being happy in your chosen specialty.
Richard Wood I really appreciate that you said this. I am getting my BS in nursing right now and want to apply to med school after I am done. One of the things that attracted me to nursing was the ability to work three twelve hour shifts. Is most of emergency medicine like that? Long shifts with more days off? If so that would really help me figure out what direction I am going. Thanks.
NickkOfTime it absolutely is like this. It is probably the most flexible job in medicine. Some people make a career becoming a traveling ER Doctor working 24/7 for 7 days straight at a rural ER or become part of a big corporate medical group (CMG) where they mandate you work 16 10hr shifts a month. There are a lot of ER docs who work the 3 12hr shifts/week stint.
EM doesn't require practically any research, and there's lots of spots. Anesthesia has competitive fellowships now that subspecialty training is way more common now
EM is only competitive if you really want to do EM but do a bad job on your EM rotations. EM matching relies much more heavily on letters (SLOEs) than other specialties. There are a wide variety of programs and many spots, you just have to be willing to give up that big city intense ER training to be sure to match which many people generally avoid so their match list can be unrealistic if they have a weak application. This happens in IM and other specialties too, just not as much I believe
Just an FYI anesthesia has gotten more competitive the past 2 years. It’s competitiveness fluctuates a lot and programs are not going unfilled anymore. I’m just letting you know since you’re interested in the field. That said it’s still definitely not one of the more competitive specialties
A successful and coherent atmosphere in the OR requires that Surgeon and Anesthesiologist are at equal ground, there is no "second in command". There are two different roles here and one cannot do their work without the other. An Anesthesiologist needs to be comfortable taking charge of a patient when $*** hits the fan during a case and also to be the patient's advocate when deciding on the risks of surgery + anesthesia. Of course, my bias as an Anesthesiologist and probably Dr. Jubbal's bias having been on the surgical side. Teamwork.
@@MedSchoolInsiders This is true, especially when you compare junior vs senior anesthesiologists. Where I work, there is an atmosphere of mutual respect which makes for a great work environment. Zero tolerance for anyone being treated poorly. We have had both surgeons and anesthesiologists who have had to remediate via anger management therapy!
Where do YOU work? I wanna work where you work. Cos I also see your photo, Man Anesthesiologist. I was about to write "Dr.", then I remembered that only the surgeon is the doctor. 🙄
I find it really cool how you framed not choosing pediatrics as a "challenge you wouldn't be excited to take on for the rest of your life." There are some specialties I was interested in, but I now wonder if I only like them because of the supposedly easy lifestyle. This vid reminded me that every specialty has it's stressors and that I should think deeply about what challenges I'd love to face every day--thanks Dr. J!
I find iy absolutely mindblowing how different it is in Brazil. Around here, Anesthesiology and Psichiatry are among the top 5 most competitive specialties. And psychiatrists make TONS of money too, perhaps one of the top earning specialties. Emergency Medicine is practicaly non-existent in Brazil, ERs and even ICUs being mostly run by recently gradutated doctors without any specialty, ufortunately. And Family Medicine is virtualy unkown by the gerenal public, but the government has been making efforts to strengthen the Primary Care.
I hope we get a "So you want to be a psychiatrist" video soon! Here in Italy psych isn't the most competitive specialty either. However, psychiatrists definitely have to take call and work nights and weekends just like any other doctor working in the hospital. Private practice is a different story, of course. I'd love to know more about the differences and similarities of the profession in other countries such as the US :)
Used to like neurosurgery because the complexity, but fell in love with family medicine after seeing the doctors. Highly inspirational seeing how they care for and know their patients
Family Medicine is the best for me. I get incredibly bored doing the same thing over and over. There's not a day in my comunity health center I'm not challenged by something new.
I’d really appreciate a “So you want to me a paediatric surgeon” video. Including match rate, competitiveness, average USMLE scores for internationals etc etc PLEASE 🙏🏽
My daughter and her husband both couples matched in PM&R and Family Med respectively... It was both of their first choice and both are very happy so far!
One week I want ob/gyn the other I want cardiothoracic surgery the other anesthesiology and the other psychiatry. This is like choosing a career all over again 😭😭
I would love a “so you want to be a psychiatrist” video. I’m working on my BA in child and youth counselling and am trying to decide if I take the med school route to become psychiatrist or my PyscD to become a clinical psychologist
If you can hack the the drinking from a firehouse that is medical school and are a good text taker: I say go for the MED school route and specialize in Psych. It is a long path but my friends who went this route have a wonderful quality of life. And in my opinion, sometimes it’s nice to pawn off the time consuming therapy part to the PsycD/psychologists/social workers. Unless the therapy part is the most fascinating part, then by all means absolutely ditch getting an MD/DO and get that masters/PHD in psychology.
Gunning for EM! "In the ED we see the most exciting 30 minutes of every specialty, then hand them off to the appropiate department" I heard that once, and after i started volunteering during my 1st and 2nd year at my school's hospital three times a week, i definetly share the feeling.
It's because all Canadian patients have health insurance... In the USA imagine treating basic needs that have de-evolved to a near death situation because the patients can't afford basic medication or treatments. Which also means you don't get paid, because you can't get blood from stone.
Can you please make a video about the pain management specialty? I’ve watched a ton of your videos but none of them, except this one, includes that specialty. I’m eager to learn more!
Subspecialty of anesthesia, but there's a career path through EM and PM&R. Usually heavily biased towards interventional pain modalities like injections and spinal cord stimulators.
No specific specialty as mentioned earlier but once you’re an anesthesiologist/psychiatrist/physiatrist/internist you can do a separate pain residency of 2 years. In Canada at least. If you’re an anesthesiologist, you can do a 1 year pain (acute or chronic) fellowship or that extra pain residency.
Family doctor being #1 doesn’t surprise me, in my area, everyone wants to specialize so we have a mass shortage of family doctors. I work in a walk in clinic and the amount of people that don’t have a family doctor is astounding. Something really needs to change.
I want to go into family medicine! Sadly at my university, people are making fun of me for wanting to do that. Because it isn't a competetive speciality, they think every doctor of this kind is pretty dump. They all forget how important family medicine is and how important it is to be very good in it!
FM is the best for me! It's noy glarmourous, of course, but who cares? There's is no other specialty where you can bond so strongly with the patients, families and comunities and use that bond as a powerful diagnostic and therapeutic tool. I'm the one who takes care of gramma's back pain, daddy's smoking addiction, mama's pre-natal care and I'm the one who makes sure the kids are growing alright. My patients might even need to see other focal specialists, but I'm always the one coordinating their healthcare. In other words, I am the doctor they call theirs and for me it's the best thing ever. Besides, I hate hospitals.
The biggest problem of EM: patientes that are not in a real emergency, but believe so... (At least, in Brazil, but I guess it's the same in the U.S.)..
Pre-med and current ER nurse here. You hit the nail on the head. I love working emergencies, but could never in my life imagine becoming an emergency physician. I work in the Texas medical center and I would say roughly 60-70% of the patients we see, do not need to be in the ER. The worst part about it is that attempting to educate them is next to impossible and only comes off as rude to them. It's a very big and expensive problem.
Vc é do Rio? Muito prazer. I have friends from Brazil currently doing Peds EM rotations in Miami. Peds is a different world compared to adults, but same issue, like 80% of the patients do not need to be there, a lot of parents treat the ED like it's their Pediatrician's office and bring their kids in for any cough or cold -_-
@@johnolive9477 These are the same parents who come see me in triage because they have been coughing and running fever this morning and didn't go to work. Or whose back has hurt for the last 9 years and today "it was really bad." Then the kids grow up and having not had any normal pediatrician with healthy continuity of care, end up with chest pain at 35 and are back in triage. And when we recommend to the mother that she needs to see a pediatrician for her kid or a pain management doctor for her own back, we are scoffed at, told we do not care and receive poor reviews from patient satisfaction surveys. Vicious cycle.
Pm&r was one of the top 10 most competitive speciality to get into in past surveys. Based on scores yes its less competitive but due to the surge in applicants and the minimum amount of residency spots it has a low match rate. Scores aren't the only factor for that speciality and a poor predictor for "competitiveness"
This is also true for EM. Many students are steering clear due to lack of residencies and even fewer positions available for attending physicians (likely due to the increased number midlevel providers).
I'm currently a medical scribe in an ED and I see many patients with shortness of breath, abdominal pain or chest pain. It does get exciting when someone comes into the trauma room or arrives with cardiac arrest. But there are also many patients that come in for trivial things like a cold or sore throat when they could just go to a clinic and get treatment there. There are also many patients that are homeless who come in repeatedly (multiple times a week) for alcohol intoxication or drug overdose.
Dai I looked up medical scribe on Indeed and found an opening with a company called ProScribe. They put you through online training and then on-site training which takes about a month. I suggest looking up ProScribe and see if they have any openings somewhere.
Pediatrics can be a total joy. I have been one for over 30 years and I can honestly say I still love my work. Obviously you would only love pediatrics if you like children. Pediatric is a vocation within a vocation, if you are meant to be a pediatrician, you will be one, you won't even spend much time thinking about it. But if you work in pediatric oncology, you will need super strength of character. Watching kids suffer and die could break your spirit. But that isn't even the worst. The very worst thing you may have to deal with as a pediatrician is child abuse.
Choose the speciality that you see yourself doing. You are happy in and see yourself waking up to go to work happy and feeling fulfilled for the next 25 years. All physician are very handsomely paid and it is well respected profession. Never make it about salary you will paid more than a senator.
Those average salaries are quantifying salaries even lower than the average obviously. In Miami, I know quite a few physicians who earn half of the average you state. Family physicians in Miami Florida earn 100 K and I know of one earning less than 100 K. Kids better think twice about medicine before they rack up a debt load which their salary will not be able to pay for.
I'm very surprised that psychiatry isn't very competitive in the US. As a practicing physician in Brazil, I have seen a rise in people wishing to enter the psychiatric field. Anesthesiology have surprised me as well. The only field who has less competitors here is family medicine. It's a field with few resources and it's often seen as "simple and easy" so I can see why it's less competitive here too.
Though what does a doctor do in PMand R. I worked in PMR for some time and I felt most work was done by physiotherapists and occupational therapists. Everything that is mentioned in the video is done by PT.
The anaesthesiologist is not the second in command. Actually, it is problematic putting the problem like that. You can't compare the surgeon and the anaesthesiologist, they are not doing the same thing, they have to always work synchronized unless you don't want the patient to be awake in the middle of surgery or vice-versa.
I'm doubting at least 3 of these belong in the category of least conpetitive. Maybe according to the data you're pulling from it fits your criteria but Psychiatry has been in the top 5 most competitive specialties for a couple years now just because of lifestyle, and anesthesiology is slated to be in the top 5 most competitive this match cycle as well. EM doesn't seem right as well. The other 3, however, I would agree with.
If you think the ER is not always fast paced then you've never been in South Africa. Johannesburg and Cape Town hospitals have to deal with numerous stabbings and shootings day, and its always fast paced.
Can you do a video on the potential for being a part time physician? After being a physician for a decade or so, I’d like to know if you can drop down your hours, or even go in part time off the bat
PM&R residency, Psychiatry and ER has gotten significantly more competitive. Particularly PM&R, the secrets out about the specialty, my PM&R friends love it.
Could you please make a video about anesthesiology? I'm really interested on how anesthesia works but at the same time I'm scared that I might not be able to handle the workload
Natemaeka CuriousTeen what are you referring too? After residency, anesthesiologists probably have the lowest workload of any physician. The best personality fit for Anesthesia is someone who is calm under pressure, has moderate degree of risk tolerance, but also very detail oriented. Also, you have to be willing to work with and take instructions from the surgeon: table up table down, positioning of patient, hanging medications, etc.
What I meant was the hows the workload looks like in med school then residency to give me an idea on how I should balance my extra curricular and school. Sorry for wording it out incorrectly
Natemaeka CuriousTeen the workload is huge in med school! And get ready for intense test anxiety cuz you will be taking LIFE DECIDING EXAMS multiple times. Residency is hard but I miss being in the thick of it with my friends/fellow residents struggling together. I think the best gauge of how you will do in medical school is how well you do in your basic science classes as an undergrad and how well you work with others in a group setting. If you do well, then you can definitely hack medical school and residency.
Very thorough excel doc, props! I think, however, that "AOA percentage" and "Top 40 NIH School" are flawed criteria in and of themselves because they automatically "score down" a specialty that accepts IMG (or DO) regardless of what the candidate actually accomplished in medical school. Furthermore, neither of those criteria are rated equal to Step scores or Publications by PDs. As I'm sure you agree, there are some very brilliant, well-published IMGs who complete a residency in the US.
Hahahaahahah, maybe in USA. In Europe, anesthesiaa is known as hardest speciality, and it is 6 years. Also the full name of speciality is anesthesiologist and reanimathologist and specialist of intensive care. It is only for special human beings who can live with a stress.
8:57 It’s funny how you said that because I was talking to my emergency medicine doctor I was shadowing and I said that is it true that I’m the operation room you can go upstairs and assists and he says no that’s tv bullshit
I am quite surprised about these. I am a doctor from Denmark, and here the most competitive specialties include pediatrics and anesthesiology. It is practically impossible to get into these specialties without a PHD.
Anesthesia is not competitive because people realize it’s being severely overrun by CRNAs. You should do a video about which fields are most likely to be swallowed up in the next ten years. Imo it’s Anesthesia and Diagnostic Rads.
EM - burnout Peds - dealing with parents (in addition to sick kids) Anesthesiology - threat of being replaced by CRNAs These things make graduating med students (at least those in my class) hesitant to enter these fields. With a lower number of applicants, the threshold of entry falls.
It's not all that. Your peers have already been making money for years before you start making 6 figures, and you have hundreds of thousands of medical school debt unless you're lucky
before med school you feel that way, but then you realize your in 200-400 k debt and have not been working for 8 - 12 years after high school, and sacrificing soooo much of your life fo years that at the end 231k doesn't feel enough
Okay, this is just a personal opinion, but I think psychatry is one of the hardest ones for the simple reason that it can truly affect your personal life by being sooooo self aware about human behavior. You really have to have guts to get into the feel and have no fear of that awareness. Just an opinion, because I had a tough past and bringing all of it out, would fuck me up
Aiming to apply psychiatry next year! A little worried tho since I'm hearing in recent years psych is getting more competitive and that 'psych is the new derm'
serg74ful I rotated with one PM&R doc who was living the dream. He did not prescribe opioids or medications at all. Just performed EMGs and NCSs and interventional paint procedures.
Psych is getting much more competitive because of the higher volume of students applying, not necessarily from rising board scores. Psych provides excellent lifestyle and compensation is increasing
Even if you decide, that’ll 99% change multiple times during medical school. Actually, most med students don’t know what speciality they want to go into. Med school is broken in two parts. The first two years are the learning years. Where you learn all of the anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, etc. The last two years are rotation years. So you’ll go on a month of General surgery, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, etc. That’s where most people figure out what they want to do. If you work hard, and you really want it, you can become a doctor. I got a 1000 on the SAT and was a B average person in high school. I then started working really hard, and I’m going to start residency soon. You don’t have to be the smartest person to be a doctor. You just have to be driven and work extremely hard.
I live in a rural area and it’s almost impossible to find a family doctor here. There’s such a shortage of them. I only found one because she’s already the doctor for my sister and mom
Hey, been loving your videos, and am planning to study medicine in 3 years. I wanted to ask you if you could make a video about a specialty like Traumatology.
There’s no traumatology specialty per se. You’re either an orthopaedic surgeon or a general surgeon who specializes in trauma. Yet they don’t operate on the same types of injuries (bones vs soft tissues)
I'm no expert on this topic, so just my opinion here: As far as I've read, an anesthesiologist not only has to monitor the anesthetics given during surgery but also handling pain control afterwards. Sure, keeping an eye on vital signs and controlling doses is something that could be done by a computer, but talking to the patient afterwards, prescribing a personal prescription for pain management and making sure they're recovering properly is a lot more personal -- so most Iikely is a job better suited for another human. (Until AI becomes sentient to the point where it's indistinguishable from another person, at least...) Nonetheless, my guess is it'll be a looong while before robots start threatening your job. I could be very wrong here since I have limited experience with both anesthesiology and AI, but that's just a personal prediction. Good luck for the future!
There are still too many procedural skills that need to be performed requiring a person at the helm. That being said I love thinking ahead about what medical specialties will be impacted first. My opinion Radiology (not interventional) and Pathology are the obvious first ones to go.
It will be a while before AI completely takes over, but we're already starting to see it used to assist in diagnostics (large databases that use AI to match a symptoms with a disease). Important word here is "assist", because at this current stage you still need a human's intuition and decision making to make the final decision. So as far as I know, there's no need to worry about AI taking over in our lifetime. I also want to go into anesthesiology so here's hoping!
Highly recommend looking up Kristina Braly on here! She's an anasthesiologist and vlogs all the time about her normal day. She's super sweet so I'm sure if you reach out to her on Instagram or on youtube with any questions she'll try to get back to you!
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*If you think you're not smart enough to become a doctor, think again.*
Everyone starts out the same: helpless sacks of meat, knowing nothing except how to breathe, drink, and sleep. Not everyone is destined to be a doctor, but don't let "I'm too dumb" be the ONLY reason you have for not pursuing a medical career you're interested in. Actually, this goes for any career.
Have a good day, fellow internet stranger friend :)
Friend this was uplifting! Thank you
Unfortunately, intelligence is also largely genetic, lol. Definitely not the only factor, but it is a false image to say that we are all on a level playing field. Dozens of other factors also make the playing field uneven. Socioeconomic status, upbringing (more or less enriching environments), etc.
You don't need to be intelligent to become a doctor, you must just study hard
Amen! I had lower scores in high school compared to my friends, went into another degree, and 2 years later I'm starting med school! Brains are great but passion is also important
@@afarensis9720 in my faculty with 150+ students in the first class, there are even dumb ones who can't grasp the difference between strong and weak acids but get along by memorizing everything
1. Family Medicine
2. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
3. Anaesthesiology
4. Paediatrics
5. Psychiatry
6. Emergency Medicine
O K easiest to MATCH into.
O K All these aren’t easy to practice but they are easy to match into
manish Ranjan “Learn your place and let the real doctors do their job.” WHAT THE HECK THIS IS TOO FUNNY
O K The video isn’t stating that psychiatry is an easy specialty. It is stating that it is EASIER to MATCH INTO. You’re confused, I am a PA student at Creighton University and i have also heard this
O K Psychiatry is an extremely hard specialty but the point of this video is to indicate which specialties are easier to GET INTO. Watch the video before you attack people for stating what the video said.
I would love to take a short quiz to find out which medical field is right for me! There's too many options!
There’s one with the AAMC but idk how accurate it is and it’s long. Like it said that may brother who is in anesthesia should go into path or derm and it said I (I want to do derm) should do anesthesia
Shauna Schiffman I know this is generic advice, but I advise that you be selfish in what specialty you choose. Of course choose a job that will make you happy, but also make sure it doesn’t mess with the kind of lifestyle you want to live. I am an emergency doc, and I love working in the ER but I enjoy having half the month (at least) off...AND NO PAGER!
I guess what I am trying to say is that we all felt this calling to be a doctor. And we have all made sacrifices to serve others. But you got to put yourself in the forefront when you choose a specialty. Your patients will benefit significantly from you being happy in your chosen specialty.
Richard Wood I really appreciate that you said this. I am getting my BS in nursing right now and want to apply to med school after I am done. One of the things that attracted me to nursing was the ability to work three twelve hour shifts. Is most of emergency medicine like that? Long shifts with more days off? If so that would really help me figure out what direction I am going. Thanks.
NickkOfTime it absolutely is like this. It is probably the most flexible job in medicine. Some people make a career becoming a traveling ER Doctor working 24/7 for 7 days straight at a rural ER or become part of a big corporate medical group (CMG) where they mandate you work 16 10hr shifts a month. There are a lot of ER docs who work the 3 12hr shifts/week stint.
Richard Wood Wow! I really appreciate the information. That really helps me figure out a plan for what direction to aim for. Thanks!
I’m surprised about anesthesiology and emergency med. They used to be really competitive.
EM still is though.
EM doesn't require practically any research, and there's lots of spots. Anesthesia has competitive fellowships now that subspecialty training is way more common now
Most people are. 20 years ago anesthesia was very competitive. Hasn’t been that way in a while. EM was never very competitive
EM is only competitive if you really want to do EM but do a bad job on your EM rotations. EM matching relies much more heavily on letters (SLOEs) than other specialties. There are a wide variety of programs and many spots, you just have to be willing to give up that big city intense ER training to be sure to match which many people generally avoid so their match list can be unrealistic if they have a weak application. This happens in IM and other specialties too, just not as much I believe
Anesthesiology is getting more and more competitive in the Netherlands... When I got in, it was relatively easy :)
Heck yes! Future anesthesiologist, here! This just made my day.
Just an FYI anesthesia has gotten more competitive the past 2 years. It’s competitiveness fluctuates a lot and programs are not going unfilled anymore. I’m just letting you know since you’re interested in the field. That said it’s still definitely not one of the more competitive specialties
@@jeffcrawford9515 Thanks. Still gonna work my butt off just the same.😉
Christi Thompson definitely late but you got this dude! I’d like GI or derm but I know they will take a lot of work.
I feel this!
Anesthesia was very competitive last year and seems that way this year. Waiting for match in a few days.
A successful and coherent atmosphere in the OR requires that Surgeon and Anesthesiologist are at equal ground, there is no "second in command". There are two different roles here and one cannot do their work without the other. An Anesthesiologist needs to be comfortable taking charge of a patient when $*** hits the fan during a case and also to be the patient's advocate when deciding on the risks of surgery + anesthesia. Of course, my bias as an Anesthesiologist and probably Dr. Jubbal's bias having been on the surgical side. Teamwork.
Teamwork is dream work! While I agree with you, I’ve witnessed many anesthesiologists being treated poorly by surgeons
@@MedSchoolInsiders This is true, especially when you compare junior vs senior anesthesiologists. Where I work, there is an atmosphere of mutual respect which makes for a great work environment. Zero tolerance for anyone being treated poorly. We have had both surgeons and anesthesiologists who have had to remediate via anger management therapy!
I want to become an anesthesiologist in the future, how is the work like daily?
@@nto514 How are CRNAs and Residents treated where you work if there are any?
Where do YOU work? I wanna work where you work. Cos I also see your photo, Man Anesthesiologist. I was about to write "Dr.", then I remembered that only the surgeon is the doctor. 🙄
I find it really cool how you framed not choosing pediatrics as a "challenge you wouldn't be excited to take on for the rest of your life."
There are some specialties I was interested in, but I now wonder if I only like them because of the supposedly easy lifestyle. This vid reminded me that every specialty has it's stressors and that I should think deeply about what challenges I'd love to face every day--thanks Dr. J!
I find iy absolutely mindblowing how different it is in Brazil. Around here, Anesthesiology and Psichiatry are among the top 5 most competitive specialties. And psychiatrists make TONS of money too, perhaps one of the top earning specialties. Emergency Medicine is practicaly non-existent in Brazil, ERs and even ICUs being mostly run by recently gradutated doctors without any specialty, ufortunately.
And Family Medicine is virtualy unkown by the gerenal public, but the government has been making efforts to strengthen the Primary Care.
Do a most fun doctor specialties video
Yess please
C yeah I guess but he did heart my comment so maybe it’s possible
I hope we get a "So you want to be a psychiatrist" video soon! Here in Italy psych isn't the most competitive specialty either. However, psychiatrists definitely have to take call and work nights and weekends just like any other doctor working in the hospital. Private practice is a different story, of course. I'd love to know more about the differences and similarities of the profession in other countries such as the US :)
I hope that you do the least competitive sub-specialities in internal medicine like (endocrine, pulmonary, cardiovascular, infectious disease and etc)
Used to like neurosurgery because the complexity, but fell in love with family medicine after seeing the doctors. Highly inspirational seeing how they care for and know their patients
Family Medicine is the best for me. I get incredibly bored doing the same thing over and over. There's not a day in my comunity health center I'm not challenged by something new.
@QueenB123 Literally same here, I've wanted to be a pediatrician but come to realize that i want to be a family medicine physician.
lmao neurosurg to family med.. sounds like someone got their step 1 score back
aakksshhaayy you’re brown so you may not understand it’s not all about prestige and money.
@@ext230 ohhh you said it 😂😂
I’d really appreciate a “So you want to me a paediatric surgeon” video. Including match rate, competitiveness, average USMLE scores for internationals etc etc PLEASE 🙏🏽
Probably in the future :)
very difficult my best friend is a pediatric surgeon job before that was u s marine corps fighter pilot
I would love to have a video on medical oncology like a day in the life or anything.
Can you do a stand-alone video on emergency medicine?
Yes
My daughter and her husband both couples matched in PM&R and Family Med respectively... It was both of their first choice and both are very happy so far!
This is some great info! These might not be competitive, but they're still fulfilling!!
Imagine the bottom of compensation being $231,000
Imagine 400k debt from school boi
💪🏿🦵🏽
The bottom is actually much lower than that, less than $200k
This is average for the lowest paid specialty. Many doctors are paid less than this and many are paid more
Med School Insiders I’m aware of the concept of average; thank you for acknowledging that the distribution around the average is quite wide.
@@MedSchoolInsiders guess I heard the video wrong my bad🤷♂️
One week I want ob/gyn the other I want cardiothoracic surgery the other anesthesiology and the other psychiatry. This is like choosing a career all over again 😭😭
I would love a “so you want to be a psychiatrist” video. I’m working on my BA in child and youth counselling and am trying to decide if I take the med school route to become psychiatrist or my PyscD to become a clinical psychologist
Do u have all the pre reqs?
Walrus not yet. I’m in the first year of this program, so I still have time to get the pre-reqs for either direction
If you can hack the the drinking from a firehouse that is medical school and are a good text taker: I say go for the MED school route and specialize in Psych. It is a long path but my friends who went this route have a wonderful quality of life. And in my opinion, sometimes it’s nice to pawn off the time consuming therapy part to the PsycD/psychologists/social workers. Unless the therapy part is the most fascinating part, then by all means absolutely ditch getting an MD/DO and get that masters/PHD in psychology.
@@masonlee1228 Great idea! Nice tip!
PM&R is also becoming a very common specialty for DO’s since we can use OMT
Thank you for this Dr Jubbal!
The best channel I know ! Congratulations to the team !
Gunning for EM!
"In the ED we see the most exciting 30 minutes of every specialty, then hand them off to the appropiate department"
I heard that once, and after i started volunteering during my 1st and 2nd year at my school's hospital three times a week, i definetly share the feeling.
Pediatritian neonatologist here. Its the best in the World. Just do what you love /hug
According to my work as internship doctor I totally agree with every single word here 👌
I thought OBGYN was an easy one, and that psych was hard.
When is neurosurgery video coming???
Been waiting for 2 months
Can't wait.
MEEEEE TOOOO!!!!!
Me too
@med school insiders
Same here
This is so different from Canada! Emergency Medicine and Ae are often top 10 in the most competitive specialties for residency
Is family medicine a respected specialty in Canada? I say that because the Canadian family medicine is very respected here in Brazil.
It's because all Canadian patients have health insurance...
In the USA imagine treating basic needs that have de-evolved to a near death situation because the patients can't afford basic medication or treatments. Which also means you don't get paid, because you can't get blood from stone.
Can you please make a video about the pain management specialty? I’ve watched a ton of your videos but none of them, except this one, includes that specialty. I’m eager to learn more!
Subspecialty of anesthesia, but there's a career path through EM and PM&R. Usually heavily biased towards interventional pain modalities like injections and spinal cord stimulators.
No specific specialty as mentioned earlier but once you’re an anesthesiologist/psychiatrist/physiatrist/internist you can do a separate pain residency of 2 years. In Canada at least. If you’re an anesthesiologist, you can do a 1 year pain (acute or chronic) fellowship or that extra pain residency.
Did you NOT rank pathology ? I thought that is one of the (bottom) 5 least competitive subspecialty.
Family doctor being #1 doesn’t surprise me, in my area, everyone wants to specialize so we have a mass shortage of family doctors. I work in a walk in clinic and the amount of people that don’t have a family doctor is astounding. Something really needs to change.
Key word for that one: money family doctors are the least paid
Pm&r - an amazing field.
I want to go into family medicine! Sadly at my university, people are making fun of me for wanting to do that. Because it isn't a competetive speciality, they think every doctor of this kind is pretty dump. They all forget how important family medicine is and how important it is to be very good in it!
FM is the best for me! It's noy glarmourous, of course, but who cares? There's is no other specialty where you can bond so strongly with the patients, families and comunities and use that bond as a powerful diagnostic and therapeutic tool. I'm the one who takes care of gramma's back pain, daddy's smoking addiction, mama's pre-natal care and I'm the one who makes sure the kids are growing alright. My patients might even need to see other focal specialists, but I'm always the one coordinating their healthcare. In other words, I am the doctor they call theirs and for me it's the best thing ever. Besides, I hate hospitals.
@@zedasilva3 💝💓🩺🥰
The biggest problem of EM: patientes that are not in a real emergency, but believe so... (At least, in Brazil, but I guess it's the same in the U.S.)..
Yes massive issue here. Uninsured patients mostly
Pre-med and current ER nurse here. You hit the nail on the head. I love working emergencies, but could never in my life imagine becoming an emergency physician. I work in the Texas medical center and I would say roughly 60-70% of the patients we see, do not need to be in the ER. The worst part about it is that attempting to educate them is next to impossible and only comes off as rude to them. It's a very big and expensive problem.
Vc é do Rio? Muito prazer. I have friends from Brazil currently doing Peds EM rotations in Miami. Peds is a different world compared to adults, but same issue, like 80% of the patients do not need to be there, a lot of parents treat the ED like it's their Pediatrician's office and bring their kids in for any cough or cold -_-
@@johnolive9477 These are the same parents who come see me in triage because they have been coughing and running fever this morning and didn't go to work. Or whose back has hurt for the last 9 years and today "it was really bad." Then the kids grow up and having not had any normal pediatrician with healthy continuity of care, end up with chest pain at 35 and are back in triage.
And when we recommend to the mother that she needs to see a pediatrician for her kid or a pain management doctor for her own back, we are scoffed at, told we do not care and receive poor reviews from patient satisfaction surveys. Vicious cycle.
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Pm&r was one of the top 10 most competitive speciality to get into in past surveys. Based on scores yes its less competitive but due to the surge in applicants and the minimum amount of residency spots it has a low match rate. Scores aren't the only factor for that speciality and a poor predictor for "competitiveness"
This is also true for EM. Many students are steering clear due to lack of residencies and even fewer positions available for attending physicians (likely due to the increased number midlevel providers).
U must be in PMR
Thats what he said, That’s why he used other factors other than the step scores: Match rate, Publications, AOA Matriculants a NIH Top 40 MS.
“Or at least they’re supposed too.”
*OooOoo~ tea*
Hey, I'm proud to say I've gave them a fun time presenting with a tension pneumothorax 😅 had VATS 3 weeks later
I'm currently a medical scribe in an ED and I see many patients with shortness of breath, abdominal pain or chest pain. It does get exciting when someone comes into the trauma room or arrives with cardiac arrest. But there are also many patients that come in for trivial things like a cold or sore throat when they could just go to a clinic and get treatment there. There are also many patients that are homeless who come in repeatedly (multiple times a week) for alcohol intoxication or drug overdose.
Musab Shuaib How did you become a medical scribe?
Dai I looked up medical scribe on Indeed and found an opening with a company called ProScribe. They put you through online training and then on-site training which takes about a month. I suggest looking up ProScribe and see if they have any openings somewhere.
Musab Shuaib thx
Is it possible to do a PM&R video? Maybe Day in the Life/ Lifestyle or the journey through into that field
Thank you for showing the whole list in the beginning instead of dragging it out through the whole video
Great job! Just did a series of videos on Psychiatry for those who are investigating or interested in the specialty!
You should pick , if possible, that what is most interesting to you and not what is easy or makes potentially more money!
No doctor is poor in the US, not even middle class. It depends on how rich are you confortable with being.
Love your videos straightforward and honest
Pediatrics can be a total joy. I have been one for over 30 years and I can honestly say I still love my work. Obviously you would only love pediatrics if you like children. Pediatric is a vocation within a vocation, if you are meant to be a pediatrician, you will be one, you won't even spend much time thinking about it. But if you work in pediatric oncology, you will need super strength of character. Watching kids suffer and die could break your spirit. But that isn't even the worst. The very worst thing you may have to deal with as a pediatrician is child abuse.
can you do a vid on MD/DO versus PhD vs MDPhD
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HI Janiece!!!!!!!!
Very interested
Can you do this, but for fellowships on NRMP? Or at least all the IM ones? That'd be super helpful.
Psychiatry dream here I come! Thank you for the wonderful video ☺️
Choose the speciality that you see yourself doing. You are happy in and see yourself waking up to go to work happy and feeling fulfilled for the next 25 years. All physician are very handsomely paid and it is well respected profession. Never make it about salary you will paid more than a senator.
I read most of the comment ,most of them think about salary but you said the right thing well done
Future Team PM&R! ❤️
Those average salaries are quantifying salaries even lower than the average obviously.
In Miami, I know quite a few physicians who earn half of the average you state. Family physicians in Miami Florida earn 100 K and I know of one earning less than 100 K.
Kids better think twice about medicine before they rack up a debt load which their salary will not be able to pay for.
I'm very surprised that psychiatry isn't very competitive in the US. As a practicing physician in Brazil, I have seen a rise in people wishing to enter the psychiatric field. Anesthesiology have surprised me as well. The only field who has less competitors here is family medicine. It's a field with few resources and it's often seen as "simple and easy" so I can see why it's less competitive here too.
Family Medicine is the easiest specialty to work in poorly, but it's the hardest if you're taking it seriously.
Though what does a doctor do in PMand R. I worked in PMR for some time and I felt most work was done by physiotherapists and occupational therapists. Everything that is mentioned in the video is done by PT.
Woah I had no idea! I want to be an Emergency Medicine Doc when I grow up and just clicked on this vid for fun but wow!
The anaesthesiologist is not the second in command. Actually, it is problematic putting the problem like that. You can't compare the surgeon and the anaesthesiologist, they are not doing the same thing, they have to always work synchronized unless you don't want the patient to be awake in the middle of surgery or vice-versa.
I'm doubting at least 3 of these belong in the category of least conpetitive. Maybe according to the data you're pulling from it fits your criteria but Psychiatry has been in the top 5 most competitive specialties for a couple years now just because of lifestyle, and anesthesiology is slated to be in the top 5 most competitive this match cycle as well. EM doesn't seem right as well. The other 3, however, I would agree with.
And that’s on Grey’s Anatomy :,)
Bruh I know an endocrinologist who makes $900K a year. He’s from Turkey and he’s cool af 💀
Love the content ....
But when am I going to get a "so you want to be a peds surgeon"
Anesthesiology♥️♥️💖💝
If you think the ER is not always fast paced then you've never been in South Africa. Johannesburg and Cape Town hospitals have to deal with numerous stabbings and shootings day, and its always fast paced.
Please do a video on “emergency physicians”
Can you do a video on the potential for being a part time physician? After being a physician for a decade or so, I’d like to know if you can drop down your hours, or even go in part time off the bat
Can you please make a lifestyle video for anaesthesiologist.
PM&R residency, Psychiatry and ER has gotten significantly more competitive. Particularly PM&R, the secrets out about the specialty, my PM&R friends love it.
Could you please make a video about anesthesiology? I'm really interested on how anesthesia works but at the same time I'm scared that I might not be able to handle the workload
Natemaeka CuriousTeen what are you referring too? After residency, anesthesiologists probably have the lowest workload of any physician.
The best personality fit for Anesthesia is someone who is calm under pressure, has moderate degree of risk tolerance, but also very detail oriented. Also, you have to be willing to work with and take instructions from the surgeon: table up table down, positioning of patient, hanging medications, etc.
What I meant was the hows the workload looks like in med school then residency to give me an idea on how I should balance my extra curricular and school. Sorry for wording it out incorrectly
Natemaeka CuriousTeen the workload is huge in med school! And get ready for intense test anxiety cuz you will be taking LIFE DECIDING EXAMS multiple times. Residency is hard but I miss being in the thick of it with my friends/fellow residents struggling together. I think the best gauge of how you will do in medical school is how well you do in your basic science classes as an undergrad and how well you work with others in a group setting. If you do well, then you can definitely hack medical school and residency.
Very thorough excel doc, props! I think, however, that "AOA percentage" and "Top 40 NIH School" are flawed criteria in and of themselves because they automatically "score down" a specialty that accepts IMG (or DO) regardless of what the candidate actually accomplished in medical school. Furthermore, neither of those criteria are rated equal to Step scores or Publications by PDs. As I'm sure you agree, there are some very brilliant, well-published IMGs who complete a residency in the US.
Rehab med is great. The DPT does all the work
Hahahaahahah, maybe in USA. In Europe, anesthesiaa is known as hardest speciality, and it is 6 years. Also the full name of speciality is anesthesiologist and reanimathologist and specialist of intensive care. It is only for special human beings who can live with a stress.
3 of my top 4 specialties are in this video.
Getting into residency is gonna be a breeze!
I never see any dermatology videos :(
@Jacob James Cabrera I hear outlook for pathology is pretty bad.
we don't want derm to be any more competitive than it already is. lol
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It’s funny how you said that because I was talking to my emergency medicine doctor I was shadowing and I said that is it true that I’m the operation room you can go upstairs and assists and he says no that’s tv bullshit
Pm&r md being a PT, with the 4yr residency your better off letting PT do their thing without md butting in on the knowledge domain.
I am quite surprised about these. I am a doctor from Denmark, and here the most competitive specialties include pediatrics and anesthesiology. It is practically impossible to get into these specialties without a PHD.
Kan du fortælle mig mere om det ? Jeg er introlæge i pædiatri men vil gerne blive ortopædkirurg , er det svært ?
make a video on "psychiatry"
Can you make one for pathology???
Yeah please love pathology (:
I would love to do pediatrics, but I am to old now for med school, and I don't want to become broke from the cost.
You’re never too old
Anesthesia is not competitive because people realize it’s being severely overrun by CRNAs. You should do a video about which fields are most likely to be swallowed up in the next ten years. Imo it’s Anesthesia and Diagnostic Rads.
Good idea for a video
How on earth is Emergecny medicine, Peds and anesthesiology on the easy to match list?
EM - burnout
Peds - dealing with parents (in addition to sick kids)
Anesthesiology - threat of being replaced by CRNAs
These things make graduating med students (at least those in my class) hesitant to enter these fields. With a lower number of applicants, the threshold of entry falls.
@@samuelm5140 👏🏼 thank you for the helpful, actually informative and kind hearted response. I guess youtube can be good.
Please make a “so you want to be an operating room nurse” video!
231k per year is enough for me
It's not all that. Your peers have already been making money for years before you start making 6 figures, and you have hundreds of thousands of medical school debt unless you're lucky
James Wu it’s a lot to think about...(-_-)
James Wu typical Asian, after money
Sun sun...no worries. There are full ride scholarships for those who want to go into primary care.
before med school you feel that way, but then you realize your in 200-400 k debt and have not been working for 8 - 12 years after high school, and sacrificing soooo much of your life fo years that at the end 231k doesn't feel enough
Okay, this is just a personal opinion, but I think psychatry is one of the hardest ones for the simple reason that it can truly affect your personal life by being sooooo self aware about human behavior. You really have to have guts to get into the feel and have no fear of that awareness. Just an opinion, because I had a tough past and bringing all of it out, would fuck me up
Aiming to apply psychiatry next year! A little worried tho since I'm hearing in recent years psych is getting more competitive and that 'psych is the new derm'
It's more competitive than Internal Medicine at this point, and I am surprised to see it on this list.
PM&R FTW
serg74ful I rotated with one PM&R doc who was living the dream. He did not prescribe opioids or medications at all. Just performed EMGs and NCSs and interventional paint procedures.
@@rygarisfun8164 sounds nice..i want to go back to school just for that
Pmr $306,000
Anesthesiologist $336,000
Pediatrics $225,000
Psychiatry $260,000
Emergency medicine $353,000
What infographics program do you use to make your videos? So well done!
Could you make a video like this but with the military medical options? Such as field surgeon, pilot physician, military family med etc?
Psych is getting much more competitive because of the higher volume of students applying, not necessarily from rising board scores. Psych provides excellent lifestyle and compensation is increasing
I really wanna be a doctor but i don't feel smart enough for it
Hell i can't even choose what kind of doctor i wanna become-
Even if you decide, that’ll 99% change multiple times during medical school. Actually, most med students don’t know what speciality they want to go into. Med school is broken in two parts. The first two years are the learning years. Where you learn all of the anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, etc. The last two years are rotation years. So you’ll go on a month of General surgery, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, etc. That’s where most people figure out what they want to do.
If you work hard, and you really want it, you can become a doctor. I got a 1000 on the SAT and was a B average person in high school. I then started working really hard, and I’m going to start residency soon. You don’t have to be the smartest person to be a doctor. You just have to be driven and work extremely hard.
Pédiatrics is easy 😮!! I think it's one of the hardest specialities.
Anaesthesia isn’t easy at all mate
Why isn't Internal Medicine or Neurology here??
I live in a rural area and it’s almost impossible to find a family doctor here. There’s such a shortage of them. I only found one because she’s already the doctor for my sister and mom
Hey, been loving your videos, and am planning to study medicine in 3 years. I wanted to ask you if you could make a video about a specialty like Traumatology.
There’s no traumatology specialty per se. You’re either an orthopaedic surgeon or a general surgeon who specializes in trauma. Yet they don’t operate on the same types of injuries (bones vs soft tissues)
I'm guessing OB/GYN also falls into this category, right? Thank you so much for all you do!
I don’t think so it’s a bit higher I think
I really want to go into anesthesiology, and am passionate about the field, but will it be overtaken by AI in the near future? What do you guys think
I'm no expert on this topic, so just my opinion here:
As far as I've read, an anesthesiologist not only has to monitor the anesthetics given during surgery but also handling pain control afterwards. Sure, keeping an eye on vital signs and controlling doses is something that could be done by a computer, but talking to the patient afterwards, prescribing a personal prescription for pain management and making sure they're recovering properly is a lot more personal -- so most Iikely is a job better suited for another human. (Until AI becomes sentient to the point where it's indistinguishable from another person, at least...)
Nonetheless, my guess is it'll be a looong while before robots start threatening your job.
I could be very wrong here since I have limited experience with both anesthesiology and AI, but that's just a personal prediction. Good luck for the future!
There are still too many procedural skills that need to be performed requiring a person at the helm. That being said I love thinking ahead about what medical specialties will be impacted first. My opinion Radiology (not interventional) and Pathology are the obvious first ones to go.
It will be a while before AI completely takes over, but we're already starting to see it used to assist in diagnostics (large databases that use AI to match a symptoms with a disease). Important word here is "assist", because at this current stage you still need a human's intuition and decision making to make the final decision. So as far as I know, there's no need to worry about AI taking over in our lifetime. I also want to go into anesthesiology so here's hoping!
midlevels like CRNA is what you should worry about for Anesthesiology. AI won't do anything to any medical field for awhile
Highly recommend looking up Kristina Braly on here! She's an anasthesiologist and vlogs all the time about her normal day. She's super sweet so I'm sure if you reach out to her on Instagram or on youtube with any questions she'll try to get back to you!
How about Pathology and Public Health? I thought they were pretty low on the competitiveness scale as well. Could you do a video on these please?
There is no such thing as a public health specialty of medicine though many physicians do work in public health.
Preventative medicine is the closest residency
@@CapELarry One of the hardest board exams, I heard. Lowest pass rates, I guess that means.
@@carter5548 I'm sure they mean epidemiology
Its crazy that neurology isn’t up there. It used to be one of the lesser competitive ones couple decades ago. Times changing I guess.
T K it still is.
Waiting the emergency medicine video 🙂
Btw great video 😁
wow, surprised pathology, nuclear medicine arent in there!
They’re close