Why I DIDN’T… Internal Medicine

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Internal medicine is an awesome specialty. There's a ton of variety and the lifestyle is pretty good relative to many other specialties. That being said, it wasn't for me. Here's what I liked about internal medicine, what I didn't like, and why I ultimately chose not to specialize in it.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Introduction
00:00 Introduction
00:40 - What I Liked About Internal Medicine
05:19 - What I Didn’t Like About Internal Medicine
11:06 - If You’re Considering Internal Medicine

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[cubicgoldfish]

As a 3rd year IM resident i can pretty much say what you're telling is the truth. IM is very wide. Most of the time i think of myself as a detective. Many people think the same way. Aside from diagnosing on a wide range of disease best part of the IM for me is having too many options. Options of fellowship, continuing as a IM specialist etc. It also gives some free time as opposed to specialities of surgery. Thus one is able to pursue other topic of intrest. IMO, IM is the best residency for someone who is not very fond of planning and spontaneous. There is always more options to it.

[Aaron-ccyq]

This is the exact point I always bring up when people say we need to focus more on preventative primary care. Most of the things that people can do to prevent disease, they already know! Everyone knows not to drink alcohol, eat junk food, or smoke, and to increase exercise, etc. You don't need a doctor to tell you that and a doctor can't force you to change your lifestyle.

[Ineshiee]

I'm an intern (in my country intern year is not part of the residency). I fell in love with internal medicine almost 4 years ago, and despite many people telling me to really re-think that decision, assisting during night shifts and so on only made me want to do it more. It really often is like real-life doctor House and as someone who's really fascinated by medicine the variety is just unmatched (except maybe pediatrics, but I prefer working with adults). Hope by this time next year I'll be IM resident.
I do HATE rounds though. I like talking with my patients obviously, but spending hours going after 10+ people refering their own patients for me is a waste of time and unneseccery stress for the patients. From my, very limited of course, experience I think discussing difficult cases and the nuances before rounds and bringing in additional people to those patients who may benefit from them is better than going from bed to bed when half of the time it's 'This is Mr X, day 4 of i.v. antibiiotics for urosepsis, inflammatory markers continue to drop' and everyone nodding.
Also, it's fascinating to me to hear the differences between US and EU. What you said about clinic is handled mostly by family medicine specialists where I live. IM doctors can do that too, but what you said about it being a bit tedious is why I decided against family medicine, despite the lifestyle being REALLY good. And I agree for many people IM becomes a default speciality and from what I observed... it often ends badly, because despite IM being a heart of medicine it really is under-appreciated even by other physicians.

[coltoncrain]

My biggest problem with IM is that it felt the vast majority of it was just managing chronic conditions of either very ill or very unhealthy people. Not a lot of thinking about diagnostics for the vast majority of patients. They are here for COPD and CHF. They get the same treatment roughly, but may have to change it a bit if they also have kidney failure. Sure there are many fellowships, but if you don't have time or circumstances change... You are stuck doing that. This makes FM more appealing where your options are more broad as a generalist.

[tjh]

Canadian Internist here. For Canadian students or those intending to practice in the Great White North, it is important to be aware that internal medicine is a somewhat different specialty here. It is still the root training for subspecialties of medicine including oncology, nephrology, respirology etc, but general internal medicine is a specialty in its own right and involves a residency period of a minimum of 4, but usually 5 years. General internists DO NOT provide primary care in Canada, but instead serve as either providers high acuity inpatient care, or some type of complex outpatient consultancy and management of complex, usually multimorbid clinical conditions. So bottom line, internal medicine is a longer, somewhat more specialized path up here. Still lots of career choices and breadth of practice.

[nadian]

Thank you for these *Why I didn't..* videos, they are super helpful and interesting and I like your subjective opinions, since I feel like, a lot of times it is similar to my own... could you do the next *why I didn't...* about ophthalmology or gynaecology, please

[alarheam]

It’s about time that you film “why I didn’t ophthalmology” fam! Cheers!

[musicenthusiast]

Thank you for the series once again! Could you please please do an ophthalmology one? Thank you very much Dr. Jubbal !

[manojkumardas]

So you wanted to be series on
Infectious disease and
Hematology oncology

[brandonminjarez]

Awesome video as always! Can you do Why I didn’t do psychiatry next?

[MrsHoran]

I love this series! Please do pediatrics next

[BoardsMD]

Always love the intro as a “mostly useless” series 😂😂

[orangeblossom]

I’m a social worker at our hospital so much of medicine floor is dementia and homeless population

[rtsetse]

Great videos! can you please make a video on the Physician-Scientist track?

[ericcalvo]

Make one about Intensive Care Medicine 🙏🏻

[musicenthusiast]

Thank you for another amazing video!! Was wondering if ophthalmology could be included in 5 riskiest doctor specialties” video?

[VM-wtti]

Did IM, now I regret it. It’s all about social shit.

[AK--ikrc]

this Video made me choose Internal medicine more than So you want to be Internal medicine, Ironic

[nidanursinanoglu]

That hand movement at the very beginning... why doc whhhhyyyy

[jameschips]

Can you make a video of your thoughts on the current health care system in America vs. a single payer healthcare system in Canada for example?