as if finishing medical school wasn't
already difficult enough certain
specialties are much harder to imagine -
for residency compared to others in a
previous video we went over the top five
most competitive and difficult
specialties to match into today let's
cover the six easiest doctor jabal med
school insiders comm getting into any
residency program regardless of the
specialty is no easy task
it requires completing four years of
medical school taking USMLE step one
writing a personal statement doing
interviews and several other steps that
are not to be taken lightly
that being said your life becomes much
easier if you apply to a less
competitive specialty if your specialty
is not considered as competitive this
does not make you a good or bad doctor
it's just the facts without any judgment
so please no butt hurt comments we'll be
using the same methods from our previous
video on the top five most competitive
specialties we're taking into account
the match rate average step one score
step 2 CK score number of publications
percentage of matriculants who are AOA
and the percentage from a top forty NIH
funded Medical School the following six
medical specialties are those that
ranked lowest and are therefore the
easiest to match into relatively
speaking check out the data for yourself
in the spreadsheet with all the
calculations linked in the description
below family medicine is by far the
least competitive specialty to match
into scoring only 15 points in our
dataset was the runner-up at 27 points
family medicine is the specialty devoted
to comprehensive medical treatment of
patients across all ages think of them
as the first-line defense when it comes
to maintaining health family medicine
Trull to routine checkups preventive
care health risk assessments
immunization screening tests and acting
as the coordination hub to manage the
patient's big-picture treatment across
several specialties while less common
some family medicine doctors also
deliver babies and provide prenatal care
to pregnant women which is now more
commonly performed by opgi and actors
family medicine is a foundational
specialty to medicine with nearly one
out of every four office visits being
made to a family met physician that's
208 million office visits per year with
the next closest specialty at 83 million
visits they're also the ones doing most
of the heavy lifting in treating
America's underserved and rural
populations
after completing medical school you must
complete either a three or four
your family medicine residency if you'd
like to specialize there are multiple
fellowship options to choose from
including geriatric medicine sports
medicine sleep medicine hospital
medicine and hospice and palliative care
in terms of lifestyle family physicians
have predictable hours without
unexpected calls in the middle of the
night in terms of compensation however
there towards the bottom making on
average two hundred and thirty one
thousand dollars per year physical
medicine and rehabilitation or p.m. and
our for short and also called physio
tree is the specialty focused on
restoring functional ability reducing
pain and enhancing the quality of life
for individuals with physical
impairments or disabilities p.m. and our
doctors use non-surgical methods to
treat conditions such as spinal cord
injury traumatic brain injury stroke
limb amputation chronic pain and a
variety of sports injuries and
musculoskeletal disorders when I visited
p.m. in our clinic as a medical student
we saw several cerebral palsy patients
as well while it may be easier to get
into p.m. in our residency I will
consider the specialty anything but easy
dealing with this sort of patient
population day after day can be highly
taxing and discouraging without high
degrees of patience compassion and
optimism treatment modalities of course
include medication but also physical
modalities such as heat cold ultrasound
or electrical stimulation pmn our
doctors also make use of adaptive
equipment and devices such as braces
artificial limbs and wheelchairs and
also perform spine and joint injections
often under fluoroscopic or ultrasonic
guidance including in turn ear p.m. and
our residency is a total of four years
if you'd like to sub-specialize further
you can complete fellowship in
musculoskeletal and spine stroke
multiple sclerosis neuro rehabilitation
electrodiagnostic medicine cancer
rehabilitation or occupational and
environmental medicine as for lifestyle
p.m. and our doctors have predictable
hours no crazy call and make mid-range
physicians salaries at an average of
three hundred and six thousand dollars
per year next up is anesthesiology with
29 points you may have heard of the road
to success standing for radiology
ophthalmology anesthesiology and
dermatology these are four specialties
with good pay and fantastic lifestyles
despite its high pay of three hundred
ninety two thousand dollars and flexible
lifestyle anesthesiology is less
competitive likely a function of supply
and
and with many residency spots going
unfilled each year most typically
anesthesiologists handle anesthesia for
patients undergoing surgery or other
procedures this can be general
anesthesia where the patient is
unconscious sedation anesthesia where
the patient is somewhat conscious but
not feeling pain or regional anesthesia
such as spinal epidural or regional
nerve blocks while the surgeon is
responsible for doing the surgical
procedure the anesthesiologist is the
patient's guardian angel monitoring
their vitals ensuring they are
comfortable and keeping them stable on
the operating table
anesthesia residency lasts four years
after which you can sub-specialize
further with a fellowship in pain
management sleep medicine cardiothoracic
anesthesiology pediatric anesthesiology
neuro anesthesiology regional and
ambulatory anesthesiology obstetric
anesthesiology or critical care medicine
there are two types of doctors working
in the operating room surgeons and
anesthesiologists
I think anesthesia is an excellent field
if you have the right personality for it
that means you'll need to be comfortable
being second-in-command and watching the
surgery rather than actually doing it
yourself neck and neck with
anesthesiology is Pediatrics scoring 30
points this is the branch of medicine
involving medical care of infants
children and adolescents think of it as
the equivalent of internal medicine but
for patients who aren't adults just like
internal medicine pedes is a three-year
residency and just like internal
medicine there are dozens of some
specialties to choose from through
fellowship training like pediatric
cardiology emergency medicine
nephrology oncology infectious disease
and many more working with kids is a
mixed bag on one hand it's incredibly
gratifying to help children in need on
the other hand it can be tremendously
disheartening to care for a child with
cancer or another terminal illness as a
pediatrician you'll essentially have two
patients a child and their parents and
you'll quickly become well-versed and
handling upset or crying babies as well
as highly neurotic parents as a college
student and first year medical student I
was aiming for Pediatric
Gastroenterology but after working in
the department for a few months I
realized working with kids and their
parents every day wasn't a challenge I
was excited to take on for the rest of
my life in terms of lifestyle pediatrics
is so broad and varied that you can be
anywhere on the spectrum on average
however pediatricians are one of the
always compensated physicians making on
average 225 thousand dollars per year
psychiatry
not to be confused with psychology is
the practice of medicine devoted to the
treatment and management of mental
disorders it wasn't until I started
doing YouTube that I learned of the
negative stigma some people have against
psychiatrists which puzzled me it turns
out this misplaced distaste of the
profession arises from questionable and
unethical practices regarding the use of
lobotomy and electroconvulsive therapy
in the mid twentieth century since the
1970s however psychiatry as a profession
has tightened up ethical codes and
addressed the misconduct of the past
Sakaya tree is a favorite rotation
amongst medical students because it's
well chill you won't be working before
9:00 or after 5:00 and in fact you'll
probably have many days much shorter
than that on the other hand while the
subject material of mental illness is
endlessly fascinating the practice of
Psychiatry leaves many medical students
feeling lethargic you'll be speaking to
one patient sometimes for close to an
hour you'll need to be incredibly
patient and sometimes it may feel like
you're just talking to them and not
actually doing enough psychiatry
residency is four years after which you
can sub specialize in addiction child
and adolescent forensic and geriatric
psychosomatic and more in terms of
lifestyle you'll be working at a slower
pace and usually won't have to deal with
call at odd hours of the night in terms
of salary the average psychiatrist is in
the bottom quartile in terms of
physician compensation at two hundred
and sixty thousand dollars per year last
we have emergency medicine which
received 42 points if you like shift
work and fast-paced exciting medicine
then emergency medicine might be a good
fit
emergency medicine physicians work in
the emergency department or Eady
although most laypeople say er for
emergency room eeehm residency last
three or four years in duration after
which you can specialize with a
fellowship in palliative care critical
care medicine medical toxicology
wilderness medicine sports medicine
disaster medicine hyperbaric medicine
and more emergency medicine physicians
are essentially the first-line defense
dealing with acute conditions requiring
immediate treatment or at least they're
supposed to
given the high rates of uninsured
patients in the US the IDI is often
crowded with uninsured patients that
can't get care elsewhere that problem
and the prospect of universal health
care is a topic for a future video TV
shows portray the emergency department
as exciting fast-paced and
adrenaline-fueled
truth is during my multiple rotations on
emergency I was dealing with abdominal
pain and chest pain more than anything
else don't get me wrong when a patient
comes in with cardiopulmonary arrest or
a tension pneumothorax
it is exciting just know that most of
your time in the edie won't be like that
in terms of lifestyle emergency medicine
physicians are unique in that they have
shift work meaning they clock in and
clock out at a predefined time and you
have flexibility in choosing your shifts
such that you could have several days
off in a row emergency physicians are
well-paid at an average of three hundred
and fifty-three thousand dollars per
year but they do unfortunately
experience very high rates of burnout
don't let the data fool you just because
these are the six least competitive
specialties doesn't mean they aren't
hard to get into every specialty in
medicine is competitive just some more
so than others
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