Posts Tagged ‘Medical Specialty’
Top Ten Highest Paying Nurse Practitioner Specialties
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.
Read moreChanging Times and Changing Minds – A Post for Future Physicians
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.
Read moreWhy I Chose Emergency Medicine
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 grasp on what their future […]
Read moreHow Internal Medicine Chose Me
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?”). So I thought […]
Read moreChoosing Your Medical Specialty: Family Medicine
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 specialty-to-be, family practice (renamed family […]
Read moreChoosing Your Medical Specialty: Obstetrics and Gynecology
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 grandfather was a general […]
Read moreChoosing Your Medical Specialty – Internal Medicine
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 up in a […]
Read more#Specialty | Parody of #Selfie | ZDoggMD
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 are posted at HospitalRecruiting.com with express permission. Follow this link to browse more medical […]
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