-: I found a major here at Tech that's called
Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise.
And it's sort of like a kinesiology major.
So, for me that just was way more interesting
as an athlete and enjoying sports medicine.
I could take classes on exercise physiology and kinesiology,
how the body works, so that was gonna
excite me every day in class.
And then when you apply to medical school it's
not the standard biology and it stands out a little bit.
So it just you gotta find what interests you,
and not just trying to fit the mold
of what you think a medical school wants to see.
So the residency is sort of the cap
at the end of medical training.
You have your four years of undergrad,
your four years of medical school,
and then during your last year of medical school
is when you stat applying to different
residency programs and the residency what you do
is at that point you've made a decision of
I want to be family medicine or I want to
be a surgeon or I wanna do orthopedics.
And then you apply to programs for that specific specialty.
And then depending on the specialty there
are anywhere from three to seven years in time.
And basically you end up there and it's
mostly like a job, you know you have a clinic
and you see patients and you are actually a doctor.
But you're just in further training
and so you have someone above you
that's a more seasoned doctor everyday that's kind
of around you and teaching you as you go
and if you're headed down the wrong path
on a diagnosis or a treatment for a patient
they kinda help you redirect and teach you
in the moment of where you went wrong.
So you have a little bit of a safety net
for those first few years as a physician.
You have to be smart and know what you're
talking about to be a good doctor.
But you also have to be a good person,
someone that can interact with other people,
have good social skills, good communication skills.
Because you can have all the medical knowledge
in the world but if you can't communicate
to the patient why you're doing what you're
doing or what's happening to them,
they're either not gonna believe you
and buy into what you're saying,
or they're just not gonna understand it and
be more scared then they need to be
if it's not really something bad
or they're not gonna understand why they
need to take the medicines that they need to do.
So the communication and the relationship
you build with your patients in the
long run is the most important thing.