 What is going on everybody welcome back to my channel welcome back to the vlog? It is another beautiful almost weekend here in New York City So I just finished a case with my ambassador surgery colleagues And I am currently headed home right now because we have a beautiful weekend Together with the wife before I start another seven days of call I feel like it never ends, but anyways that is not the topic of today's video because I wanted to talk about All these questions I keep getting asked and these questions are pretty common and I hate these questions So I wanted to do an entire video Devoted on all the questions. I hate getting asked and why I hate getting asked these questions I'm gonna miss the bus the bus actually didn't stop for me So let me go get on another stop and we'll get to the questions Number one question I get asked that I hate the absolute Most is when people say hey, Dr. Shilini big fan of your channel Can you give me advice? Like what does that actually mean when you are asking me for advice now? Don't get me wrong. I am all about giving advice to people and helping them out in any of their careers Especially in medicine because that is what I know the most when you just send me a blanked statement asking me for advice That could be literally anything like as in the most general question on earth I don't know if you're asking me for advice on What you want for dinner? I don't know if you're asking me for advice on how to take the MCAT I don't know any of that. So if you want to ask me for advice, just tell me what kind of advice you're actually seeking Otherwise, I'm just not gonna respond because if I were to just give someone advice That would take me like years and years and years in I don't have that kind of time unfortunately Number two, what's the lowest you assembly step one score? I can get in order to match into interventional radiology or What's the lowest MCAT score I can get to match into medical school? I have so many problems with that question I don't even know where to begin Any test is Obviously to do the best you possibly can why would you limit yourself going into a test? That just doesn't make sense to me why you would be like, okay I want to get an X score so that I can get into X residency or X score so I can get into X medical school Why would you not want to blow the test out of the water to do the absolute best you possibly can and to give yourself options? Like that just it just doesn't register in my brain Why you would want to do less to get something rather than reach like above and beyond like you never go into a test to be like I only want to make an 80 on this test No, you study like you want to make a hundred on the test in hopes that you'd make a hundred on the test and do really well I guess that concept just like doesn't make sense to me You never want to limit yourself going into one of these examinations because if you limit yourself off the bat You're already setting yourself up for failure. For instance, if you only need to score like a 245 on step one to max into radiology Why would you try to study to get a 245? You should study like you're trying to get a 280 or something so that at least it gives you some Options when you're trying to match it a residency. I scored pretty well on step one and I can promise you I did not go into that test Thinking I was going to make like a 220 or a 200 because I don't want to make the bare minimum I just I don't understand I know a lot of people are agreeing with me and nodding their heads right now But I cannot tell you how many of these questions I get Now this next question is along the same lines as the previous one And that is do I need research to match into IR or radiology? I did ask this question so much and again It goes back to my prior statements if you want to match into a very competitive specialty like radiology or interventional radiology Wouldn't you just do research just to be sure most people matching into radiology or interventional radiology have some sort of Research experience because it helps set them apart from their other applicants So if you were trying to match it to a competitive specialty You should do whatever it takes and try to put yourself ahead of all of your competition in order to feel comfortable that you're going to match So basically what I'm trying to say is don't ask me questions about how little of effort you can put forward in order for something to happen So don't ask me how little effort you can put forward in order to match because I'll either won't answer or I'm just gonna tell you that you need to put in a hundred percent because you should probably already know that And before I move on to the next question I just want you guys to know that know I'm not this mean and yes I answer a bajillion questions every single day about I mean you name it I answer questions about so I do answer plenty of questions I get a ton of messages in my inbox all day long emails and DMs on Instagram So I try to answer whatever but if you want me to answer them be specific and I will answer them It takes a lot of time for me to answer all these questions So I try to do my best so if you want to ask me something ask me the next question I get all the time that I hate answering. Well, I don't answer it, but that is What is the salary of a radiologist now? This is something you can Google. So why would you feel the need to ask me what my salary is? I don't understand that I never go and ask anybody what their salary is I never walk up to any of my friends and say hey, how much do you make every year? That's just not something you talked about with people That's a very private thing and you should keep that to yourself and not talk about it with a whole bunch of people Which is why I don't talk about it with anybody either I think what I'm gonna start doing is anybody who asks me what my salary is I'm just going to ask them what their salary is if they respond. Maybe I'll think about responding Maybe I won't I don't know the next question I don't like getting asked is what classes will prepare me for a radiology residency So I think I should first start off by saying there is nothing that really can prepare you for a radiology Residency the only thing that can prepare you for any residency is medical school It doesn't matter what class you take in high school. It doesn't matter what class you take in college There is no class that can prepare you for your residency residency is like the ultimate multi-year package training program For your specialty and nothing can prepare you for that residency Except for being in that residency no biology class no physics class or organic chemistry class is going to prepare you for Radiology now, I could see that there may be some like medical physics tying into Radiology if you were interested in taking a class like that But chances are if you took a medical physics class in undergrad or college university You won't remember it four or five six years ago prior to radiology residency You probably won't remember anything from those classes. I personally know studying for physics this year I don't remember anything that I did or studied during my physics classes Before medical school now if you are interested in radiology and want to learn a bit in med school or whatnot I'll put a link up here and it's some books There's some of my favorite books and resources that help you learn along the way But ultimately the only way to learn radiology is do a radiology residency All right, so the last and final question I do not like getting asked is basically a general concept and that is do not ask me anything You can Google yourself. I can ask so many questions that can be solved with just a simple Google search I e what is a radiology salary? How long is a radiology residency? What's the difference between a radiologist and an interventional radiologist? What's the difference between a radiology tech and a radiologist? These are all answers that you can find on Google because we have a world of information on our fingertips And honestly, it would take me far longer to answer any of those questions Then you could get the answer from a simple Google search So if you have a question Google it first and if you still don't understand it Maybe reach out to me and ask me a question and I'll try to answer it So before I in this video, I do just want to reiterate I'm not angry that I get these questions But these are just the most common questions that I just don't like getting asked Ask me some specific questions Ask me some good questions that you've already searched for and can't find the answer for I always answer them. I'm happy to answer and help you all out Make sure you smash a like, subscribe button, follow my Instagram if you don't already Otherwise, I'll see you all twice a week, every single week on the next video