Why I Became General Surgeon

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Here's why I became a general surgeon and the steps I took to decide to become an international medical graduate (IMG), get my surgery residency, and ultimately become a general surgeon.

General Surgeon - Dr. Buck Parker describes how he decided to become a General Surgeon as an International Medical Graduate.

Dr. Buck Parker, MD is a Board Certified General Surgeon and can be found here online here:

IG: @drbuckparker
Twitter: @drbuckparker
Snapchat: buckparker

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My Recommended Amazon Products:

- Nootropics -
Qualia (I take these myself)

- About Being a Doctor -
House of God (Classic book every doctor should read)
Complications
Better

- My Favorite Trauma Book for Anyone -
Top Knife

- USMLE Books -
CRUSH (Best USMLE book ever)
First Aid for USMLE Step 1
Kaplan Step 1 Qbook

- Med School Surgery Rotation Books -
The ABSITE Review (Read this for your surgery rotation and crush it)
Surgical Recall (Get all the Big Questions Right)
Advanced Surgical Recall
Maxwell Quick Reference (To save your a## on rotations)

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Your story is very similar to where I am right now. Went to college for a major I didn't even want because my advisor basically said throw a dart on a metaphorical map and see where it lands, so I landed on journalism. I lasted two semesters. And that's when I met my fiance, she was going through nursing school while I was working to keep a roof over our head and all the while I was picking up on all of these medical terms due to her studying 24/7. Now that she is graduated and in the hospital as an RN she wants to support me as I did for her while she was in school. But my previous stint in college proved fruitless and at the age of 23 I felt like I missed my cue. So I kicked some rocks for awhile, twiddled my thumbs and casually looked up some medical careers I might be interested in. And then I read the description for CST. "WOW!" How cool I thought. "Ya know the only thing that would be cooler is doing the actual surgeries." But as that thought left my brain and bounced around my skull the realization came that it would be over a decade to actually become one while accumulating a massive amount of debt. The thought deflated and became useless until I gave up on it. Until one night while I was having trouble sleeping, I came to the realization that all great people never let anything like time or money stop them. They became what they are because they wanted it bad enough. So I started watching your videos. And I can honestly say you have inspired me to reach for my goal of become a surgeon. No matter how long it takes, no matter how much money it costs, because I want it. And it's never too late and never to early to start. So thank you. Respectfully, some young and dumb kid.

noshitrizzo

I don't feel alone!! I used my first round of college as a social event and received 7 F's... went back to school for round two, graduated with a 3.9, and now I'm currently a 1st year med student at a DO school 🙂.

medicaljunkie

Binge watching all your videos on my what I thought would be unproductive Sunday morning...seriously best thing that has happened to me! You are such an inspiration and you deserve all your success. Thank you for these videos.

AmyLeaf

I can't believe Buck is 43. Shows how one can deal with stress and still look young. :p

Iamawesome

Im 13 and hope to become a cardio thoracics surgeon and so far ive learnt all the organs and two different sutures. Wish me luck.

Madison-lhwc

THIS IS SO HELPFUL AND RELATABLE! I love science and mathematics but I’m not very gifted and they’re so challenging for me. I want to go into medicine or science but I’m afraid that I can’t do it.

melodymurtaugh

Thank you, you inspired me so much today. I have always wanted to go into General surgery😍😍😍

serenasimdi

the best feeling for me is when you get the best mark in an exam.

زينهمكيكامل

I just found your channel, im so much glued.. I’m now so much inspired and now considering gen surg now

vinceceejay

This is so inspiring and my story. I’m 24 and just now 2 years away from completing any undergraduate. I gave up on wanting to pursue medicine bc i did so poorly I wasn’t confident enough but after years in college trying other careers I just can’t seem to let this go so I just said screw it. I’m gonna work for this it’s never too late

libragoddess

You a e the man brother!.. I ma 3rd year med student who is an img (although I am at a good European school), but your right as far as getting into surgery if you really want it. This Us school didn't know what European school I was from and I still got invited to do a pre clinical rotation for trauma and general surgery at this large medical university in the US. I can't list it yet but....once I get permission, I will update because I think people should see whats possible. Basically after doing well here and helping out through volunteering, they introduce and move you to doing a "pathway" program, which means you return in your last year to do the surgery as an elective. If you do well there, that's when they decide to let you know they are having spots for those who come into their pathway program. There are a lot of schools in the US doing that, as well as residency programs in rural areas like the one you mentioned that was gonna pick you as #1 since they liked you. I am finding out it is alot about how the staff likes you. I was helpful to all the staff and even the contract workers at this school in my first summer off from med school over seas. However, I really like this school as it would have been my first choice due to its location. This is in the present, so it may help a lot of your followers, because this is 2018! Keep up the videos man, you have inspired me and another img friend of mine and were both getting invited into this pathway program.

armymed-captainr.savior

My friend Im a general surgery resident and realy disappointed of this branch but ur videos give me hope

Qatooo

Nice vid man! Starting as a scribe for a general surgery team.

daniecolljr

I'm here to reassure myself that my surgeon won't half ass my knee surgery. I'm terrified! Sometimes I have off days at my job. What if my surgeon has an off day?

kristinabeaton

This is so relatable hahah I also "self sabotaged" during my first year in college (nursing) because I felt overwhelmed with the study load and clinicals so I sort of avoided the work and it slowly piled up in the end. As a result, I failed 1 of my 1st yr A&P classes. I had to re-do that. I knew it was all because I didn't have enough self discipline and time management. In my 2nd year 1st sem, I studied like craaazyyy since I didn't want to be kicked out of the program. It is quite intense and we can only use 1 supplementary exam for each semester so failure meant waiting for a course retake or getting kicked out of the program if the grade is a super low fail. After all the hours I put in studying almost everyday, my results ranged about 87-90%. I'm going to be in my final year of nursing next year. Sometimes I feel like I should've went straight into biomed instead of nursing school... I'm contemplating about going into med school after some preparation to maybe pursue a specialty in that field.
Thanks for sharing med/college-related videos and knowledge to everyone in the YouTube community!

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