Ooooh, I also watch Cryaotic! He's awesome 
I also recommend you Robbaz
BTW, I know you probably hate this question, but what residency will you choose/did you choose? I chose internal medicine and I think I'm going to regret it
But we'll see 
I also recommend you Robbaz BTW, I know you probably hate this question, but what residency will you choose/did you choose? I chose internal medicine and I think I'm going to regret it
But we'll see 
Oh, to be honest... i don't know yet 
Nothing related to surgery, oncology, neurology or cardiology, that's for sure, aside from these i'm considering all the other options. I guess i'll decide when i'll have to choose, i always tend to go with my instinct in situations like this and it's usually a good decision because under pressure my true wish surfaces. I tried making a list with pros and cons but the more i think about it the more undecided i am because i have a lot of criteria in my mind. It will depend on how high my score will be too so i think at this point it's an advantage i'm not heavily in love with anything cause if i loved dermatology but i couldn't get it i would be crushed. I think in my case i'll just have to learn to love it, i only hope i'll have a great medic to guide me and teach me the best there is about whatever it is i'm going to do.
Yes, internal medicine is hard mainly because it is so vast, but if you like it and also have a nice experience practicing it you won't regret it. Why do you think you will? I don't know how the system works there but here for example, after the specialty exam, i can take the residency exam again and enter a new specialty. After the second specialty exam you're called a primary doctor and you're allowed to practice both, so even if i don't necessarily love what i'm going to do i can still pick again, but i will do this no matter what happens meanwhile - if i decide to stay, if i'm going to leave the country then there's no point in doing the second residency.
Nothing related to surgery, oncology, neurology or cardiology, that's for sure, aside from these i'm considering all the other options. I guess i'll decide when i'll have to choose, i always tend to go with my instinct in situations like this and it's usually a good decision because under pressure my true wish surfaces. I tried making a list with pros and cons but the more i think about it the more undecided i am because i have a lot of criteria in my mind. It will depend on how high my score will be too so i think at this point it's an advantage i'm not heavily in love with anything cause if i loved dermatology but i couldn't get it i would be crushed. I think in my case i'll just have to learn to love it, i only hope i'll have a great medic to guide me and teach me the best there is about whatever it is i'm going to do. Yes, internal medicine is hard mainly because it is so vast, but if you like it and also have a nice experience practicing it you won't regret it. Why do you think you will? I don't know how the system works there but here for example, after the specialty exam, i can take the residency exam again and enter a new specialty. After the second specialty exam you're called a primary doctor and you're allowed to practice both, so even if i don't necessarily love what i'm going to do i can still pick again, but i will do this no matter what happens meanwhile - if i decide to stay, if i'm going to leave the country then there's no point in doing the second residency.
Ahhh so you're in the similar situation that I was... I also didn't know what to choose until the last moment when I decided to just go with the flow and let the life choose for me. And when the internship was coming to the end, I got a message that a spot in a nice small hospital will be open in cardiology or internal medicine and they give a flat to live in (which is a big wow, because no way something like that would happen in a bigger city). And I was doing summer practice in this hospital (each year we had to do one month of volunteering...), the staff + the boss liked me and I liked them, so it was an easy choice I'm a bit afraid of the vastness of internal medicine and the amount of knowledge I'll have to put in my lazy brain, but I'll manage somehow...
Yeah, in Poland we can also make a second specialty, but not as residency. We have only one residency choice and even if someone decides it's not something he wants to do for the rest of his life, he can't change it. He can only try to specialize on different (worse) terms (like volunteering - seriously!), so most people just prefer to go to a more civilized country
Do you also have an internship after graduation?
I'm a bit afraid of the vastness of internal medicine and the amount of knowledge I'll have to put in my lazy brain, but I'll manage somehow... Yeah, in Poland we can also make a second specialty, but not as residency. We have only one residency choice and even if someone decides it's not something he wants to do for the rest of his life, he can't change it. He can only try to specialize on different (worse) terms (like volunteering - seriously!), so most people just prefer to go to a more civilized country
Do you also have an internship after graduation?
Good thing is that you don't have to take it all in all at once, you've got plenty of years to practice and get experience ahead, so don't be so afraid!
Wow, that sucks for Poland medics! It isn't fair to not be able to do something else as well.
Internship? What do you mean? I graduated in September, took the residency exam yesterday, in a week comes the specialty choosing and then we start working in the residency program, that's what happens here.
Wow, that sucks for Poland medics! It isn't fair to not be able to do something else as well.
Internship? What do you mean? I graduated in September, took the residency exam yesterday, in a week comes the specialty choosing and then we start working in the residency program, that's what happens here.
Good luck with the specialty choosing!
Here we had six years of studies and then 13 months of internship - which was... "half-work" I'd say We had a title of a doctor, but we had limited rights to practice medicine. So we couldn't for example write prescriptions. And during the internship we were paid (about 500$ monthly). There was 10 weeks of internal medicine, 6 weeks of ob-gyn, 2 weeks of anesthesiology, etc. And what we did differed greatly on different wards On internal med I did everything (but ofc someone else had to stamp the prescriptions ), on ob-gyn I was only a slave for writing discharge papers (never seen a patient or a birth during this time, I had to stay in a slave-room and write ) and on pediatrics I was a speech-to-text machine, haha Because old doctors there couldn't type so fast. So the internship was both good and bad, but at least we had some money from this bad parts where we didn't get any useful experience. And only after the internship and the final exam we get full rights to practice medicine, choose residency, etc...
Here we had six years of studies and then 13 months of internship - which was... "half-work" I'd say
We had a title of a doctor, but we had limited rights to practice medicine. So we couldn't for example write prescriptions. And during the internship we were paid (about 500$ monthly). There was 10 weeks of internal medicine, 6 weeks of ob-gyn, 2 weeks of anesthesiology, etc. And what we did differed greatly on different wards On internal med I did everything (but ofc someone else had to stamp the prescriptions ), on ob-gyn I was only a slave for writing discharge papers (never seen a patient or a birth during this time, I had to stay in a slave-room and write ) and on pediatrics I was a speech-to-text machine, haha Because old doctors there couldn't type so fast. So the internship was both good and bad, but at least we had some money from this bad parts where we didn't get any useful experience. And only after the internship and the final exam we get full rights to practice medicine, choose residency, etc... Well then, this is awkward, your internship salary is actually bigger than a resident's in my country lol (not really, i'm sad about it). We do what you described in the modules during uni, some teach you, some just use you for stuff, others would have you rather go home and not stand in the way. It depends on the doctor.
Yep, but there's no big difference between the internship salary and the resident's one - about 50$. And when my american friend asked me how much I earn, he asked "per week?" "No, per month!" and he was shocked 
"No, per month!" and he was shocked Well here it starts at about 300$ and by the end of it if you're really lucky you can have maybe 600$ so... And the older doctors usually earn around 500-1000, it depends on specialty.
I know, my American friend had the same reaction ):
I know, my American friend had the same reaction ):