Posts Tagged with "Medical Specialty"
View all postsTop Ten Highest Paying Nurse Practitioner Specialties
By Catherine Burger, RN - September 20, 2018
The role of the Nurse Practitioner (NP) is ubiquitous in the field of medicine. Wherever one finds a physician in a clinical setting, a nurse practitioner (with training and little oversight) may also be found. While salaries for these advanced practice nurses will vary from region to region in the U.S., there are also some salary differences based on area of specialty.
Changing Times and Changing Minds – A Post for Future Physicians
By Gerard DiLeo, MD - August 21, 2018
In my dad’s time, I know he did hysterectomies, appendectomies, vein stripping, colon surgery, proctology, and many other things that just having his diploma and a knife qualified him for. True, it was a pretty good diploma as diplomas go, but today we know that you can’t know everything about everything.
Why I Chose Emergency Medicine
By Mitchel Schwindt, MD - February 23, 2017
There is a definite finality to the decision of which specialty a physician pursues. The reasons are as vast as they are individual. Hopefully, the med student has done due diligence and has a solid
How Internal Medicine Chose Me
By Ted Tsai, MD - June 9, 2016
As an internal medicine physician, the #3 question people most often ask me is why I chose to be an internist (the top two being “What is internal medicine?” and “What’s this thing growing on my genitals?”).
Choosing Your Medical Specialty: Family Medicine
By Faith A. Coleman, MD - October 20, 2015
Sometimes (most of the time?) a career path chooses its "owner," rather than the owner planning and executing the carefully laid out elements of a career. When I was putting together a map for my
Choosing Your Medical Specialty: Obstetrics and Gynecology
By Susan Kerrigan, MD - October 1, 2015
Why I Chose to Become an Ob/Gyn Physician - My interest in medicine began with my grandmother, who was a labor and delivery nurse. I used to visit regularly and listened to her exciting stories. My
Choosing Your Medical Specialty - Internal Medicine
By Melody Covington, MD - August 6, 2015
Why I Decided to Become an Internist In order to answer the question of why I pursued a career in internal medicine, I must first provide insight into why I chose to practice medicine altogether. I grew
#Specialty | Parody of #Selfie | ZDoggMD
By Michael Jones - December 19, 2014
Editors note: OMG & LMAO, ZDoggMD gives his take on how to pick a specialty before taking the MCAT. You can find more highly sophisticated physician comedy at, www.zdoggmd.com. Videos from zddoggmd.com
