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What I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a DOCTOR - 5 Things
what is going on everybody welcome back
to my channel for those of you who are
new around here my name is michael
aka dr cellini and i'm a sixth and final
year
interventional radiology fellow in new
york city now on today's video we're
going to be talking about
things i wish i knew before going into
med school because
the hindsight is always 20 20. maybe it
can help you all out in the future
signing up for this whole med school
round so let's go ahead and get into it
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all right so like i said the hindsight
is always 20 20 and i've had some time
now to kind of think back
about things i wish i knew before going
through this whole med school route this
whole position
route maybe it'll help some people
decide one way or the other
number one med school is expensive so i
pulled up the us
news world reports here kind of get a
taste of how much
med school actually cost these days
according to the ama or association of
american medical colleges
the median four-year attendance for
private med schools added to about 338
000 over the four-year course that cost
is two percent higher than in the prior
year and it's around 82 000 greater than
the median
in-state cost of public medical schools
in 2019 and 2020. furthermore among the
48 private medical colleges that
submitted tuition and fees to the u.s
news and world reports
the average charge for the 2019-2020
school year was 57
937 dollars a year so a tuition of
almost 58
000 per year times four is
200 plus 32. so almost like 235 000
roughly that's a lot of money now i know
a lot of people say doctors are
notorious for having large salaries upon
finishing
medical school and their residency
training you know about six to ten years
down the road
so a lot of people think that taking on
this amount of debt really isn't that
big of a deal since
you know physicians make such a larger
salary on average taking on a quarter
million dollars in debt
is a big deal and it's not something to
look past now should it sway your
opinion one way or the other
going to med school probably not but i
think it's a big factor
because a lot of my friends in college
owens medical school have anywhere from
100 000 to
upwards of 450 000 in debt and
it compiles year after year and interest
is a
you know what so you end up finishing
residency with a pretty nice sized
chunk of debt so a lot of times i tell
my pre-med students who reach out to me
that you need to try and find the
cheapest
school the cheapest university you can
go to and also the same thing for
medical school as well there's
little difference amongst all of the
medical schools across the u.s
with the exception of a few of the top
programs so like harvard
you know the harvard name means a lot or
like upenn or
yale stanford those kind of top tier
programs the
name carries with you forever but if
it's not one of those top programs your
medical training
really doesn't matter your residency
training is what matters the most
that's where you learn how to be a
doctor not in medical school
some people are going to hate me for
that but it's the truth so before you
try to go to an
expensive private med school for 70 000
a year
try to get accepted to a cheaper one and
i know that's easier said than done
because you kind of have to take
whatever acceptance you get but
do your best number two it's very long
medical school journey is
extremely long and can vary anywhere
from 12 to
14 to 17 years post high school
for me personally i did four years of
university four years of medical school
one year surgery internship or first
year residency four years diagnostic
radiology residency and one year
fellowship in interventional radiology
which equates to 14 years of training
some may say you don't want to waste
your 20s or
the best years of your life studying in
a book all day long
and in some ways i agree with that a lot
of your 20s are spent
in a textbook if you go into anything
medically related but
i think it's also an investment at the
same time because you can still have fun
and you can still have those experiences
that normal 20 something year olds have
you just have to be more strategic in
how you do them
you may have to study a whole bunch
during the week to prepare for that
weekend or week trip
but it's just a little different you can
still get away and find time to have fun
and
hang out with friends or whatever you
want to do in med school it's not the
end of the world
everything's possible you just have to
plan accordingly and i mean after a test
you're not studying for that like the
entire weekend so just go out and have
fun
but yes the medical school process in
becoming a doctor is very long but you
guys knew that already
number three nobody holds your hand in
med school now you kind of learn this
the hard way
because as soon as you start med school
you're virtually on your own
everything is self-study and
self-learning and it's
up to you for how much you want to
succeed in medicine
some people work way harder than others
to land that golden
super difficult residency in harvard
plastic surgery or whatnot
and some just kind of do a little bit in
between it's
completely up to you and no one's gonna
hold your hand or tell you otherwise or
even
give you guidance on how to do it or
what to do like you're completely on
your own
from day one no one sits down and tells
you how to study what to study
what's important for the rest of your
life no one tells you at the end of
medical school
how to get in a good residency no one
tells you what the secret is
no one tells you how to write the best
letter of recommendation it's all like
trial by air that's like the whole
medical school
residency journey you just have to get
in there and figure it out on your own
now luckily we have a whole bunch of
youtube videos and tutorials and
mentors that can kind of help us get
along nowadays but you're still
really on your own and no one ever told
me that so if you're someone who needs
someone to hold your hand
the entire medical school journey you
may either have to break that
or try something else so again if you're
one of those people who likes their hand
held throughout their life or throughout
school and tells you how to study and
all this stuff
you may want to reconsider med school or
you may just want to learn how to kind
of be more productive on your own
because no one's holding your hand
and that's what i can tell you that much
now i already talked about this a little
bit but
medicine doesn't necessarily have to
consume your life you can do
other things outside of medicine now is
medicine very time consuming
and is studying medicine very time
consuming yes however
that doesn't mean you can't do anything
but study medicine in fact i encourage
you
to do otherwise you need to find hobbies
outside of medicine and make friends
outside of medicine because
it's nice to kind of get away and do
things to clear your head and not be
surrounded by medicine all the time
this is most important in medical school
and residency
where your hours are very long you're
studying a lot or in residency you're
working a lot and every chance you get
you just need to
do something else whether it be rock
climbing going to the gym
which gyms are starting to open now
painting surfing i don't know what
do something active do something fun and
just do something to get your mind off
of medicine
and that's really all i have to say
about that one i'm up i like this angle
i feel this is a bad angle for me
all right now the last tip is arguably
the hardest and that is
it's very beneficial to have a partner
with you
during this entire process and i say
that for multiple reasons
one it's an escape you have someone to
talk to you have someone to talk you
through things when times are tough
you have someone just to bounce ideas
off of and talk with while you're going
through these tough times
and number two it's also good because
you have someone to help you out
so for instance as busy as i am during
residency
my wife helps me out more than you would
ever know
she makes breakfast for me she makes
coffee for me
she gets up when i do to go to work and
she doesn't have to go to work for three
more hours after me
i mean that's those are just little
things she does laundry she keeps up
with the house because she knows i'm
working
like a dog over at the hospital but also
i'm running this whole youtube business
when i get home
so i'm constantly constantly constantly
working and i just don't have time to do
normal day-to-day activities so she
helps out
so much oh how about dinner too i mean
she's the best and i don't think i could
do this whole thing without her
and now i know you guys well it's hard
for me to find someone blah blah blah
yes that's true but it doesn't have to
be a significant other it can also be a
best friend and it can also be a
classmate or a co-resident as well but
really it's just nice to have someone to
kind of talk through things with
it's cathartic it's therapeutic in a way
but
for me my wife is that person i couldn't
have gotten here without her
and i don't think i could do any of this
at
all without her she basically runs my
entire life
outside of work and i'm okay with it so
whether it be a study partner a
co-resident or a significant other
having a good partner on your side makes
all the difference in the world with
this whole process of medicine so all
right that officially concludes this
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