This is a great video!!! Agree with everything - the eye clinics and operating rooms are very fast-paced (and can get very stressful). If you want to make it in our field, you can't be lazy.
I love your channel! Inspiring me to go into Ophtho, just got accepted into med school in the UK and I really value the idea of surgery, calm environment, technically and mentally challenging job as well as amazing work life balance. Not to mention giving people vision sounds like a super power! 😂
Loved this video and hearing your perspective! I know during my residency I got to work alongside some amazing ophthalmology residents. I have a hard time imagining providers judging ophtho as being lazy 😂 so that made me laugh. (But you are so right about the urgent/emergent thing). I image you share the love of getting called in for that “sudden vision loss” of uncorrected astigmatism that improves with pinhole 🤣
Many specialties have a great work life balance. People see what residents do and think that’s what practicing medicine is. Private practice ophthalmology provides poorer work life balance because the number of patients they see in a day.
I think you can have great work life balance or you can build your own prison- but definitely the option in private practice to be busy or not in most cases 🙌🏼
I am an Intern doctor currently trying to get in Opthalmology too. Thankyou for sharing the experience !!! I think others specialty think Optho is lazy because its doesn't have a lot of emergency case that need to be done during the night shift like gen sx or CVT that lead to sleepless night , but I don't know if i'm right ?
Hello , i am in shock. I went to a dentist, kinda family friend and he used blue light ("fokus" i observed was the name to close my sealing). He did not used any protection for the eyes on me. was trying to close my eyes but one - two times i observed the light in close distance. Is it possible that light to harm me?
What are your thoughts on the business side? I’ll be graduating soon with a DO/MBA and would love to pursue ophtho but also work in consulting or something along those lines to use my MBA.
It'll never pay as much per hour as being in practice. I worked for a few med device companies before medical school and all of the physicians besides the CMO, still practiced full time. The money is in companies that offer you share for being on a board, research, tech, etc
I love your channel! I’d like to know what percent of ophthalmologist pursue private practice versus those who work for a hospital or in the academic setting? Thanks!
Thanks! I don’t know the stats specifically but from experience most go into private practice. Both have their advantages - perhaps I’ll make a video on this in the future
There are a couple of historically DO residencies. Get top board scores, some research, and spend a ton of time making connections. You’ll need to find a couple mentors for sure. DOs don’t usually have ophthalmologist associated with their school. -3rd year DO student planning to match ophtho
There are two programs in FL that historically have only accepted DO applicants, from friends of mine in previous app cycles they don't even interview MD applicants. One is in Lutz I think for one spot and the other is HCA West FL with three spots. Aside from that if I remember correctly the numbers for 2021 Match were over 90% MD, around 6% DO, and the other was like 3-4% is IMG
Hi Doctor Eyeball, Medical student from New Zealand. I am interested in Ophthalmology but I also love going to the gym (for hypertrophy) and calisthenics. Will the gym and calisthenics (and the possibility of injuries of attending the gym on a regular basis) be counter to becoming an ophthalmologist. All the ophthalmologist men I know are quite skinny, while I want to maintain my healthy, athletic body form for life. Please provide your opinion on this, as it is always on the back of my mind. I am worried of investing so much time becoming a specialist whilst riskily depending on the few joints in my fingers for microscopic surgeries.
I workout regularly and many of my co-residents were gym rats lol. As long as you don’t crush your hand in the gym you’re fine i think. It’s always a risk but you can’t live your life in fear.
