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Hi Everyone,
First SDN post ever, now in 3rd year of med school. I've always loved psychology, neuroscience, philosophy and the humanities, and I think I have found "my people" in psych. The current research in the field is fascinating and I have found my clinical experiences to be very meaningful. I've talked to ~30+ psychiatrists and they seem to be, at least on the whole, very positive about the career. Of course, as a disclaimer, I know that I have chosen a biased sample in who I've spoken to, but the point to me is that a rewarding career -- both intellectually and professionally -- is possible.
I'm so excited for finally settling on a career and will look forward to hopefully being colleagues with some of you all in the future, and maybe getting some advice along the way. I know it won't be easy and it will be a long road. Encouragingly though, my reception from my S.O., family, friends, professors and classmates (besides maybe grandma who said the really "kooky" people go into psych) has been overwhelmingly positive.
As an interesting finding, I came across Mayo Clinic's most recent physician burn-out study (Dec 2015 publish date) and though I am saddened to see burn-out has increased in general across all specialties, I am glad to see that psych continues to fare somewhat relatively well.
Cheers.
H
The One Chart to Rule Them All:
For numbers, 6880 (19.2%) completed surveys, with 488 psychiatrists responding. Note that preventive/occupational medicine in the upper left had a low sample size (76), but I'll admit that I'm intrigued as they seem to have done a decent job preventing burn-out in their occupation.
Source:
http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(15)00716-8/fulltext#sec1.2.3
PDF: http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(15)00716-8/pdf
First SDN post ever, now in 3rd year of med school. I've always loved psychology, neuroscience, philosophy and the humanities, and I think I have found "my people" in psych. The current research in the field is fascinating and I have found my clinical experiences to be very meaningful. I've talked to ~30+ psychiatrists and they seem to be, at least on the whole, very positive about the career. Of course, as a disclaimer, I know that I have chosen a biased sample in who I've spoken to, but the point to me is that a rewarding career -- both intellectually and professionally -- is possible.
I'm so excited for finally settling on a career and will look forward to hopefully being colleagues with some of you all in the future, and maybe getting some advice along the way. I know it won't be easy and it will be a long road. Encouragingly though, my reception from my S.O., family, friends, professors and classmates (besides maybe grandma who said the really "kooky" people go into psych) has been overwhelmingly positive.
As an interesting finding, I came across Mayo Clinic's most recent physician burn-out study (Dec 2015 publish date) and though I am saddened to see burn-out has increased in general across all specialties, I am glad to see that psych continues to fare somewhat relatively well.
Cheers.
H
The One Chart to Rule Them All:
For numbers, 6880 (19.2%) completed surveys, with 488 psychiatrists responding. Note that preventive/occupational medicine in the upper left had a low sample size (76), but I'll admit that I'm intrigued as they seem to have done a decent job preventing burn-out in their occupation.
Source:
http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(15)00716-8/fulltext#sec1.2.3
PDF: http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(15)00716-8/pdf
