For doctors seeking to diversify (or leave clinical practice all together).
With a Cambridge medical degree, I worked in the NHS for 5.5 years before quitting medicine. I am now onto career change #3 having recently transitioned to finance.
Apart from lessons learnt through career transitions, I will be sharing helpful tips and advice as an ex-RECRUITER, especially for those of you who are changing jobs, or indeed careers.
I'll be posting as often as my full-time job, studies & exams, 8yo daughter, and slow(ish) video editing skills allow.
Respected Dr Evgenia. Regards Myself Arjun batish international medical graduate I just completed my medicine from Georgia. Basically I started my MBBS journey in Ukraine, but unfortunately I got displaced to Georgia because of the war . Dr currently I am preparing for my country ( india ) licence exam , I ll be writing the exam in January 2025 . I just saw this YT session. Extremely knowledgeable for all those who are willing to get a non clinical branch as career option Need some guidance about Teaching options available in the UK for young teaching enthusiasts like me . I have taught my fellow mates and juniors in my schooling years Willing of sharing my teaching skills for all young medicine students. I ll be extremely thankful if u can pave some way of choosing teaching as a career option in the UK . Waiting for your response. Thank you. Good day .
Dr. Eugenia, can you please give me some guidance. I was almost about to finish pediatrics residency and was 3 months there to finishing. I was significantly burned out, started to get anxiety and a lot of depression, crying uncontrollably, blanking in my mind, not able to sleep, all that. So I failed my ED rotation and I was not able to graduate.
Thank you for the feedback :) I will take it as encouragement for carrying on after giving up on this for 3 years. Launching a new YT soon: youtube.com/@stethoscope-stocks
I agree practice in the UK is terrible. Low pay and no prestige as is in America. Observing from America, why would anyone go on strike like in the UK. Dermatologists in America can easily make $600,000 a year and live a comfortable and easy life with a good work-life balance making it very hard to enter in the States. It looks that you could not complete the training successfully as Derm training compared to other fields is so easy as I have trained in Surgery. Doctors do have to be very mentally strong or their would be no doctors then. As an actual MD, getting into a medical is unbelievably difficult as anyone knows. Nutrition is incorporated over biochemistry, surgery, and internal medicine rotations treating actual patients. Getting through such classes and rotations is extremely hard. Also extremely hard is the 3 medical licensing exams to become a real doctor. Nutrition is also reinforced through a 4-7yr residency, staying up all hours of the day and night and actually treating patients who all need nutrition to survive. MDs are the cream of our medical system. If you go to any major University Hospital in America, those are all institutions that have a medical school that grant an MD degree, and you will be seen by an MD. MD institutions select only the best applicants with the highest grades, MCAT scores, and everything being equal, as I've met in my colleagues, Olympic gold medalists, and a Navy SEAL. The best of the best. That is how they became an MD. The best residency training programs for doctors in America take first, United States MD graduates who have graduated at the top of their classes called 'AOA' or Alpha Omega Alpha. They can actually examine you correctly, and order appropriate medicine or tests to treat a patient appropriately. If you had atrial fibrillation with a rapid ventricular response in the Emergency Department they will most likely give you Dlitiazem to bring your heart down to a safe beats/minute and the correct dose, so you can live and not give you a neck manipulation or herbs so you would die. For your health, please trust a Doctor of Medicine an "MD" , with your medical needs.
Hi, Dr. Evgenia. I can't find my old comment anymore, but I watched your video years back when I was lost and wanted to leave medicine after quitting residency training. You actually invited me to connect on LinkedIn! I finally took the leap, and I'm now pursuing a career in IT. Thank you for making us feel heard and for the guidance. All the best.
I’ve always doubted my desire to leave medicine I’m a medical student in my clinical years sometimes I’m sure I want to leave but on other times I just want to get the degree at least then leave … a lot of confusion don’t know what’s the right thing to do, the thought of running away because I’m afraid of hard work makes me feel like maybe I want to do medicine
Thank you for sharing your story! As an international medical graduate, it took me 3 years to get into the NHS, giving different exams. Only to realize I don't enjoy it at all. How and where can I contact you to book a career coaching? I am feeling incredibly miserable and stuck.
Hi Samina, I'm very sorry to hear you're not enjoying clinical practice in the NHS after all the sacrifices you must've put into this. If you have an official "trainee" status, your training body may have a careers advice / career coaching service. This is particularly well set-up in London and you can access their support (free if you are a London based trainee and paid-for if you are not) via london.hee.nhs.uk/professional-development. If you are specifically after privately-funded career coaching then I can recommend Gilly at www.reignitecareers.co.uk/ with whom I worked when I was coaching NHS doctors through Health Education England. There is also Medic Footprints resource that has a list of coaches who specialise in supporting doctors, alongside their fees (just google their website). Hope this helps.
Love this!! Wonderfully expressed! You go girl!! Single momma, power woman. Thanks for sharing!! I left clinical medicine and am happy to hear the stories of others who followed their truth as well! I'm in the field of Spiritual Life Coaching now, as I discovered that is the level of healing I am better at sharing with others!! 💖💖💖
Thanks alot for sharing this. I found myself in this same dilemma after graduation in 2019. I was top of my class and it only made sense that I continued. Housemanship scarred me and I realized I didn’t like the lives of those ahead of me. After housemanship I started looking for alternatives and I even took a business class. At the end I decided to choose a speciality that will give me a good work life balance. I am currently about to write USMLE Step 2 and I am not at all enthusiastic towards getting matched. I have avoided clinical work since graduation and even took one 3 months ago just to support myself but I just signed off a few weeks ago. On one hand I have my family encouraging me that I have come too far to quit, on the other hand I hate how I feel when I am at work. I feel miserable.
Seeing this 2 years late, but great video. I’m an M.D. in the U.S. now 25 years out from graduating medical school. Went into OB/GYN (BIG mistake). I and a colleague of mine in residency used to say something very similar to you re: half wishing for a car accident or something so we could just rest and get out of the hamster wheel. I practiced 10 years after residency and it was miserable, but fortunately found a job in utilization review which I’ve been doing for another 10 years. I’m at the point where it’s time for another change and it’s scary every time but I’ve neglected my own happiness for long enough to know you can’t outrun it and it will wear you down over time so it’s much better to do what will make you happy even if that means less prestige or money. Very good video.
Hello, thanks for watching! I am actually changing lanes and will no longer be providing just career advice for just medical professionals, hence any links mentioned in the 2020 videos have been disabled. Please watch this space for new content which will be more focussed on making/saving money for UK based mid-career professionals.
Hello ! I came across this video by accident, I'm not involved in the healthcare industry in anyway, just a random encounter. I think you did a really good job sharing your thoughts, past experience and also charm during the video, I feel it's compelling and relatable because it felt like a sincere conversation. Anyway, I think you did a great job, it's a great start, keep up building your channel. I'm glad to come across it
I am very humbled by your comment. Thank you so much for taking the time to write this. It means a lot to me, as I am building up the courage to restart my channel again, after a 2 year "break". :)
You doctors do not care to save anybody's lives y'all just like Democrats and Joe Biden taking lives no loyalty no honesty no respect for the human lives no more included from doctors.
Thank you so much for sharing your story. I have also tried other career after completing my M.D. It is not easy. Especially I am located in a third world country, not much career choice to choose. But eventually I found a job as medical writer. It really have a good work life balance compared to a doctor. Watching your video gave me the courage and so I wanna say thank you. Best wishes to you and me!
Dear Doc, how do we apply for Overseas non Medical posts in Europe , Canada , USA or elsewhere in 1st world countries? Can I contact you for more focussed help and Advice? I am a Doctor too
Please can I connect with you on a personal basis , i am in the same boat and cannot find any solution . I am very depressed and been crying continuously since last 2 months. Please help
I worked as a Derm nurse in the U.S. People don't understand that you are required to work at an EXTREMELY fast pace. We roomed a patient every 7.5 minutes. It was an exhausting treadmill! Also, most patients are seen for STDs, warts, psoriasis, rashes and acne. The difficult diagnoses are few and far between. Many Dermatologists here do simple mole removals, but send patients to surgeons for skin surgeries. Some do cosmetics and some don't. "Wanting to give our patients more time" is the main reason health care workers are leaving in the U.S.
Too many young people are attracted to medicine for the following reasons..the media romanticism of the career, the family expectations, the prestige and of course, the big money which is a fallacy. Most of these students would have been better off starting their own businesses and put all their energy into it..have you noticed that those practicing mds over the age of 35 do not make up this group of disenchanted mds on you tube.. too much time invested and too late for a career change..what a waste...
You are partly right. But starting a business has its own risks, and most new businesses fail or not profitable at all. Medicine by comparison is a lot more stable career with continuing income and it’s still possible to do side gig business if you desire if in some lifestyle medical specialties.
I’m pre med and it is discouraging with more and more of these videos being made but it’s also is insightful because there’s a side to the career that we don’t know about. we need more of these videos that show the truth!
Is there any chance for having a paid consult with you? Yor story really resonated with me and I'm going through this career crisis being almost 30... thinking about applying to a Pathology Residency one day... but not sure if that would make me happy, or is just another excuse...
12:15 + Agree!! In my case; The only motivation I had during medical school and housemanship was that I want to be a plastic surgeon - I was so in love with the department and what they did during my internship. I got a placement to be the youngest MO in the department. The whole system and the bosses seems to hate their life. They lived a life that I saw and I know this is not it. They are so toxic and miserable and theh let it all on me. From there on, I saw and I decided, I dont want this. I dont want to be like them. All those drove me to an undiagnosed depression even until today. Even if I adapt and I made it, I dont want to be another toxic senior which is miserable in their life!
I wish there was this course explaining possible options outside clinical setting during my medical years. If I had, I wouldnt have been so confused and sad. Thank you so much!
Thanks a tonne for sharing your journey. As much as I enjoy medicine, I'm always wondering if I'm normal? Everyone seems like they couldn't do anything else and say as much. Makes me feel alone, so hearing this has been very cathartic.
I'm 6th year medical student I feel like I really want to continue my career in the field of environmental health or public health Please help me with pathways What environmental health or public health job can I get directly after my graduation from my medical school Thanks In advance
I am glad I found this channel. I just started learning UX now and honestly, it's a bit stressful and making me thinknin a different way. I am glad seeing someone who has gone ahead with this. I think I love UX and I want to be good at this. I just can't find the right internship/bootcamp
