Welcome to the I want to be a doctor podcast where insider information about what it takes to become a physician is available for anyone. I'm Dr. Robin Dickinson, a board-certified family physician and I will give honest answers to your questions. Today's question is from a 3rd year medical who asks: Help! Everyone on my rotations keeps asking me what I'm going into and I DON'T KNOW! How do I choose a specialty?! How Do I Choose a Medical Specialty? Well I wish I could give you a simple answer. Take this test, sort yourself into the correct Hogwarts house, hold this thing in your hand and it ..read more

Welcome to the I want to be a doctor podcast where insider information about what it takes to become a physician is available for anyone. I'm Dr. Robin Dickinson, a board-certified family physician and I will give honest answers to your questions. Today's question is from a first year medical student who asks "I'm so confused with embryology. What do I do?" As someone who is still confused with embryology, let me tell you, you are not alone. I don't know any practicing physicians who are really clear on embryology unless they did research in the field before medical school. It's a really conf ..read more

Welcome to the I want to be a doctor podcast where insider information about what it takes to become a physician is available for anyone. I'm Dr. Robin Dickinson, a board-certified family physician and I will give honest answers to your questions. Today's question is from a college freshman who asks: How do you remember to do all the things on your calendar? I'm constantly forgetting to do something. Yeah, me too. Which is why I don't rely on my memory at all. Ever. I know a lot of people who try to remember to do things and that's totally fine if it works for you. For me, my brain is so ove ..read more

  Welcome to the I want to be a doctor podcast where insider information about what it takes to become a physician is available for anyone. I'm Dr. Robin Dickinson, a board-certified family physician and I will give honest answers to your questions. Today's question is from a first year medical student who asks "Did you ever pass out during a procedure?" Why yes, I did! And I'm here to tell you that you can have a tendency to pass out, overcome it, and no one will remember long term that it was you.  The time I actually passed out was completely unexpected for me. I was in a family ..read more

Welcome to the I want to be a doctor podcast where insider information about what it takes to become a physician is available for anyone. I'm Dr. Robin Dickinson, a board-certified family physician and I will give honest answers to your questions. Today's question is from an 8th grader who asks what is the difference between a doctor, a nurse practitioner, a nurse, and a physician’s assistant? You are not the only person who wonders that!  It can be very confusing understanding all the different roles in caring for a patient. The two main differences are the training and what the person ..read more

  Welcome to the I want to be a doctor podcast where insider information about what it takes to become a physician is available for anyone. I'm Dr. Robin Dickinson, a board-certified family physician and I will give honest answers to your questions. Today's question is from a number of you who asked, “Where have you been the last couple weeks?  Why haven’t any new episodes dropped?”  So today I’m going to talk about something that most physicians and aspiring physicians struggle with.  Being human. So to answer the easy part of this.  Where I’ve been the last two wee ..read more

How Do I Deal with Overwhelming Thoughts? Welcome to the I want to be a doctor podcast where insider information about what it takes to become a physician is available for anyone. I'm Dr. Robin Dickinson, a board-certified family physician and I will give honest answers to your questions.  Today's question is from a college sophomore who asks, “How can I deal with all the thoughts that keep popping into my head? There’s so much I’m trying to figure out right now and I just want a brain break!” I’m so glad you’re realizing you need this now instead of waiting until you’re further along i ..read more

  Welcome to the I want to be a doctor podcast where insider information about what it takes to become a physician is available for anyone. I'm Dr. Robin Dickinson, a board-certified family physician and I will give honest answers to your questions. Today's question is from a second year medical student who asks where should I do my surgery rotation? Life is so full of the question of where!  When you are in preschool and elementary school, your parents are typically choosing your schools for you.  But as you get further along, you have to start making these decisions and they ..read more

  Welcome to the I Want to be a Doctor Podcast where insider information about what it takes to become a physician is available for anyone. I'm Dr. Robin Dickinson, a board-certified family physician and I will give honest answers to your questions. Today's question is from someone who is just starting medical school who asks “Did you get homesick when you had to keep staying at the hospital all night?”  You know, that’s something I worried about too.  And yes, I did get homesick.  But it also wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. So for those who don’t know, when you’r ..read more

Today's question is from a medical student just starting clinical rotations: How do I succeed in my clinical rotations? But the advice is applicable to anyone and is what I regularly recommend for everyone from my kids to adults I mentor. https://podcasts.bcast.fm/i-want-to-be-a-doctor ..read more