How to Ace Your Family Medicine Residency Interview

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[dude-e]

Family medicine is so under appreciated. They’re basically trained to handle everything under the sun as long as No OR is involved. They’re the backbone of public health care

[DGlaucomflecken]

This is the real dr. G. I’m glad you’re here. Be nice to primary care physicians. They are overworked and under appreciated and their money trees never grow any fruit. Also, subscribe for more residency interviews

[annaliseketz]

The glasses changing at the end upon taking the job is amazing!

[earthstar]

I'm actually in the hospital with my son right now for a bad strep infection and our doctor just stopped in to just see him with his own eyes. This man cares so much he came to the hospital at 8pm to make sure a kid under his care is okay despite there not being much left to do in this particular second.

Under appreciated is an understatement.

[discogoth]

My primary care doctor was the one who single-handedly figured out how to manage my chronic migraines and solved my mysterious nerve injury that dozens of neurologists, spine surgeons, and hand/microsurgeons failed to diagnose. She is a family physician at my university's student clinic and professor of medicine and sees a crazy amount of patients each day but treats every patient like we're the only person she has to worry about. Kind of hate that I graduated and need to find a new doctor now.

[vscgsecsbarecigsifp]

both my parents are family physicians. they get like 200 phone calls a day from 7 am to midnight. not to mention texts, emails and hypochondriac people showing up at their door at every waking hour for every meaningless stuff they can think about. they both love it tho, i mean, its the pure essence of helping people.

[frothingloins]

Just had an urgent appointment with my primary care doc yesterday. I could tell she was running on fumes, but she still shoved it all aside and gave me her undivided attention and diligent care. She's an absolute angel.

[suchnothing]

My friends sister is a primary physician in a very rural area, and I imagine this is exactly how her interview went lol. She was like "yeah I really want to be a rural family doctor, you have to be able to do EVERYTHING it really keeps you on your toes." She's been doing it for at least 7 or 8 years now. We need more people like her, rural medicine positions are so hard to fill.

[MJWhitfield]

When he asked “Don’t you have someone who does this for you?”, I thought the answer was going to be “I do now.”.

[katejohnson]

As someone who wants to go into family medicine, this makes me chuckle and cringe. You should set up a fundraiser so every family medicine doc has their own personal Johnathan.

Think of it now: A commercial with a crying family medicine doc on the floor, and a voiceover that says "For just $5.00 a day, you can help an abused physician get the help they need."

[Shattered-Realm]

As a family doctor I can say this is 100% accurate :D but we have great work life balance. No on call, very few actually life threatening situations ect. It's a nice calm job but you do see a lot of patient and manage any/every complaint/disease.

[tineke]

My mom is a family doctor and she gets paid dirt and treated so badly. She’s paid by the number of patients she sees so the good doctors that don’t kick their patients out after 5 mins don’t make much at all. Plus she has an average of 2 hours of paperwork at the end of each workday that pile up because she didn’t want to fall farther behind and make her patients wait longer for their appointments. She’s not paid for any of the paperwork. She also has to pay rent for her office space, her medical receptionist, and every band aid and piece of paper comes out of her pocket. She has to know everything about every possible thing that could be going on with a person. Family doctors (at least in Canada) are such a scarcity because no one wants to graduate med school with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt and then have the government act like you’re not as important as everyone else. She’s so fed up with it that she wants to change careers. Thank you for stressing that her job is extremely difficult- it sounds fucking exhausting.

[sopyleecrypt]

The final scene made me lol 😄. Appreciate your family doctor, everybody (or general practitioner as they’re called here).

[ninjaelectivire]

I love how the money tree line wasn’t delivered sarcastically, as if there’s an actual money tree that just doesn’t grow

[aivanther]

I'm the son of a family medicine doctor in a rural town. Seeing him is the reason I didn't go into medicine, as he always seemed like this, with added fun of people finding our home phone number to call him (yay rural communities and their non existent boundaries). I will say he at least carved timeout for his kids, but yeah, I felt that chatting until he fell asleep part.

Edit- I would add that despite the lack of respect for his family time by calling our home, he was and is much loved by his town.

[jlchannel]

I am a family medicine doctor, and I feel seen. Thank you for supporting us. Also, I am changing my profile picture to askew glasses.

[grayman]

0:34 Get yourself somebody that tells you "You're perfect" as lovingly as Dr.G

[josiahmoulton]

After 7 years of family medicine I decided to transition to rural ER in the middle of the pandemic. Hard to imagine but the ER has been less stress overall. No messages, labs to call back on, referrals to place, few forms to fill out, no med refills, prior auths, ‘oh by the ways’… just a good mix of strokes, MI’s, SI’s, traumas and everything in between.

[guilhermeramos]

Oh.. my.. God.. my feelings about the last 3 years I worked in a family medicine clinic have been totally validated by 2 minutes of video... I'm gonna call my therapist, I dont need her anymore..

[_Anlex]

I like how he gradually became more and more worn out