My Experiences as a Brand New Pathology Attending | Part 1

Sorry for my long hiatus! Being a brand a brand new junior attending has kept me quite busy. I made this video back in October, and I share my thoughts (as well as my SALARY) after finishing my 3rd month as a GI pathology attending. As part 1, this video will cover the topic of "what I do as an attending". Part 2 will be about my feelings about becoming a new attending.

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Please leave comments or questions down below!

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:21 - My starting salary
04:32 - Breakdown of a year
07:50 - My clinical weeks
11:30 - Outro

[sarasaurolophus]

Thank you for your honesty and for giving us a glimpse into attending life! As an MS4 applying to pathology this year I appreciate all of your videos, please keep up the great work!!

[iggyiggy]

Thank you so much for your honesty and generosity with you experience!!!!

[Abdulla_K]

Amazing video Dr. Wang. Your videos are always interesting and inspiring us to pursue this career.

[summermazur]

Congrats on becoming an attending! I'd love to hear you teach us about stains and IHC and the like. Very interesting stuff, but since I'm not a pathologist, I only can learn so much from textbooks.

[razukchar]

Loved the breakdown of clinical duties.

[dearicsmiles]

I'd love to learn more about GI path! What stains you order and what framework you use to figure out what's going on with the patient. Would be fun to see some clinical cases!

[ahmadsarfaraz]

That’s a very nice salary for an academic center as big as Stanford, no? You can definitely make 350k+ in a private practice in a small town. Can you also please tell what are your average works hours per week? Also what is your expected bonus?

[diehard]

is doing a research a "must" when you are an attending in an academic hospital? What if you like teaching residents but you don't like research :/ ?

[neelkanthkulkarni]

hi. can you put a video on hn e image quantification

[mrx]

Hi I'm an non-EU international medical graduate with an MBBS degree recently graduated, I'm interested in becoming a pathologist in the USA, I haven't done my step exams yet, however I got the chance to do a 2 year master's in medical biotechnology in Hungary should I take it? I do find it interesting im interested in learning more about research as it might help me with that, but would be helpful in pathology?, and by helpful I mean would it help my application stand out when I apply for pathology residency? if I took those 2 years to build labskills and other start research projects because my med school didn't offer me much in terms of extra curricula, so now that step 1 doesn't have a score, their more pressure to focus on other things so i feel naked to apply having not done any research or volunteering or electives to enhance my application so, is this a good idea? any guidance would be appreciated

[ClaudiaGonzalezReinoso]

Hi! How many hours do you have to work per week?

[pradeepreddy]

Hii doc, how much does clinical pathologists make in academic setting and is it wise decision to just choose clinical pathology only residency ?

[theorangecandle]

Is it harder to get an academic job compared to private? I would prefer academic and don't mind the reduced pay at all.

[AD]

Can imgs get job post pathology residency in us ? Most imgs come on j1, are there j1 waiver jobs available in pathology ?

[cielheiness]

Hi dr.Cindy do i need to be a genius at math to become a clinical pathologist

[graynight]

It might seem personal, but if I can ask, what do you to manage your periods during residency? I don't want to have um "accidents" when I'm working lol

[solomonkassahun]

Hiiii doc. What about neuropathologist salary?