 So if you know anything about medicine and you know July 1st is the day where a bunch of new doctors fled the hospital and if you're a patient then you may just see me because this week I managed to finish my first week as a practicing physician and in this video guys I'm going to tell you how that week went and what I expected, what I didn't expect and how it's different than being a med student. All of that, we're going to get to it after this intro. Alright guys, what is going on, luxury for the empty journey, hoping you succeed on your medical journey with less stress. If you are new to this channel, quick introduction, my name is Luxe, I am a first year internal medicine resident and I've been making these videos and blog posts to help students just like you on how to succeed on a medical journey and not to survive. So if you enjoyed this video first of all, hit that like button, subscribe to the channel and join the community for more weekly videos. Also check out all the playlists that we have on the channel including how to study, what it's like to be a doctor and so much more. So let's get into today's video which is how was my first week as a doctor and I'll be brief now and I'll give some more details throughout but it was hard guys, it was challenging, I felt incompetent quite often, it was also super gratifying and just to back up, this week I started my first week as a resident physician and I was on the neurology stroke service so I was helping diagnose and manage patients with stroke or suspected strokes and all the complications that come with that and there's a lot of new things, things that I expected as well as things that I did that came up this week. The first one is this bad boy here so this is my pager and is something that looks cool for everyone that's not a resident or a doctor to have but as soon as this bad boy starts beeping everybody freaks out because that means one of your patients needs something and you hope it's not serious. I remember my very first day during my lunch conference it went off and I jumped out of my chair, I didn't even know how to work it, I barely know how to work it and I didn't know how to call the person back. So having a pager on you and just knowing that you are literally like one page or call away to take care of your patients is kind of like an nerve-wracking because you hope that you've done everything to make sure the nurses don't have a reason to call you and you also hope that your patient is doing well that no one ever has to page you but it's on me, I'll have to get used to it and it's probably one of the weirdest things about being a doctor. Now the second weird thing about being a doctor is that now when I put orders in, you know as a med student you can put an order some of you guys may have experienced doing so when you put an order then it would go like probably append and then your resident gets to look at it and say I agree or disagree and make some changes. Now when I hit order it like it just goes and the nurses get it, the pts get it, whoever I'm sending it to gets it and sometimes I'm like wait wait wait like no one wants to confirm that this was right like that part of responsibility that transitions so quickly between being a med student and now a doctor is still a little bit weird but it's also pretty awesome to say you know like my patient needs this put in the order, tell them all they need a lab and then they get it and to know that like you did it there's no middleman that's pretty awesome it's still getting used to it. The next weird slash interesting thing is when you go into a room as a med student most of the time patients can tell that you're probably a student maybe it's the size of your coat maybe it's just how confident you are but now even if you're not confident you're kind of incompetent as a resident when you introduce yourself as doctor so and so there's like a level of respect and trust that they instantly give you and it's so weird they say yes doctor thank you doctor yes doctor and this is so different like I'm not doing anything different than I was when I was a med student is still communicating in roughly similar ways but there is a level of respect that you just don't understand of how much value they put in that white coat and your name and the amount of training you've gotten and that's truly gratifying it's truly something I hold to be very important and I take seriously so all of you guys are trying to say you know is this path worth it you're studying and maybe you're far away from even just being a resident promise you is because hearing somebody call you a doctor and then trusting your opinion and thanking you once you discharge them home and they feel like you had some role in their care that's I just can't explain it but again it's just another weird thing that I've experienced and I'm gonna have to get more and more used to it but let's get into another question I know some of you guys are asking which is what are your hours like man and you know it depends on your rotation but for your neuro stroke rotations at least for me it was roughly starting around six or seven o'clock when the night person's going home and then leaving around four to five p.m. when the night person gets back so in terms of hours it's not bad at all there's gonna be medical teams that I'll be joining and rotations I'll be doing pretty soon that are gonna be much worse than that so in terms of hours that's what they look like now it's gonna change every week or every rotation so I'll give you guys an update when I make a next shift now let's quickly wrap up the video with some common questions which is first of all do I pay you for this and as a resident the answer is yes you do get paid thankfully and it's probably the first time a lot of medical graduates ever had a job has ever had a paycheck so I'm really excited to get mine for the first time it's also the first time my bank account will go up in a very long time instead of medical school tuition which is destroyed a lot of you guys know what I'm talking about so yes we do get paid it's not doctor doctor money that you probably get when you finish training but it is and I'm grateful and last few questions people like to ask about like studying and free time and honestly the first few days when I got home my free time was limited that's basically because I would take a fairly long nap when I got home my stamina was still getting used to being in a hospital so long but now you know I can come home and be functional record videos and in terms of studying usually I was set aside around 30 minutes to an hour just review things that I didn't understand about a patient that I'm currently taking care of or a rotation I'm about to join so nothing very long there's not like you're studying for an exam per se sometimes people study for boards but most of time your evenings are free and sometimes your weekends are depending on the rotation you're on so with that being said guys I'm going to wrap up this video but as a summary first week of being a doctor not so bad you know I would consider it to be success I have a long way to go until I become the doctor that I want to be but I'm happy with how this week went I learned a lot I know I'm going to continue to learn a lot and with that you know if you guys have more questions and want to learn more about what it's like of being a doctor or a resident comment down below I'll be glad to make another video on a particular topic or just a Q&A and just rapid fire questions so again if you guys did enjoy this video make sure you hit that like button subscribe to the channel to help and support the community and without further ado thank you for being a part of my journey hopefully I've done a little help on yours I'll see you guys in the next video take care guys