A Glimpse Into Family Medicine

[@porshaclayton2510]

I'm a Program Coordinator in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and this video is an excellent source to show my third year medical students. I want to recruit more of them into FM and this will definitely be a great tool. Great job!!

[@mymdthoughts5494]

Porsha Clayton Thanks! I hope this can be helpful in your recruiting efforts. Thanks for all you do to draw more students to this excellent field of medicine.

[@romneyk1]

What a concise overview of what family medicine has to offer. I especially liked the "Grand-doctor" and the cool background music.

[@Fouroclocklover38]

Like the poster I did my externship at a Family Medicine clinic and learned a lot during the 6 weeks I was there.

[@sigmahealthconsult]

I really thankful to this video. Thats why I and my colleagues here enforce ourselves to develop family medicine curriculum training for our future family doctors.

[@MrDJGoodman]

Thank for this; as I am in undergrad, I was thinking about family medicine to pursue. This is another piece that is helping me in my journey!

[@carolinagondra1338]

Thinking about going into family medicine. It really got me the doctor that said: if you like all of your rotations. Which is something I did. Loved pediatrics, obg&n, psychiatrics.

[@dawni1861]

I'm about to do my externship for my MA degree...couldn't figure out what I wanted to specialize in. Then it dawned on me... Family practice would be the perfect learning experience. After all, it has everything.

[@mymdthoughts5494]

+Dawn I Great choice! Hope you have a great experience, and good luck on your externship!

[@andreasen38]

Excellent and very professionally done! You are going to be a great Family Physician!!

[@cierra392]

This was an amazing video and really gave me some insight on this specialty. Thank you so much for sharing.

[@mymdthoughts5494]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@sigmahealthconsult]

Hope there would be more videos explaing family medicine..

[@Jingerrific]

You are a talented filmmaker!

[@mymdthoughts5494]

Jingerrific Thanks! You're very kind. :)

[@edkensalexandre7043]

I love every single minute of that video. It really helps me out

[@mymdthoughts5494]

Thanks! Glad you liked it.

[@edkensalexandre7043]

@@mymdthoughts5494 Is it true that Family Physician can perform endoscopies? I assumed only GI doctors were trained for that

[@annaaskari09]

I love this! Thanks for creating and sharing this video :)

[@mymdthoughts5494]

Anna Askari Thanks Anna! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@zeenahakunaii5207]

Thankyou soo much!

[@DrCyam]

This is a great representation of family medicine. Kuddos!!!

[@6KidsandaHusband]

This was such a well put together video, great job!!!

[@mymdthoughts5494]

Thank you!

[@nuzhata9589]

I really enjoyed this. Thank you so much :)

[@mymdthoughts5494]

Thanks!

[@Kayla-ng7jw]

I loved this !!! Future doctor here !!!

[@mymdthoughts5494]

Thanks! Good luck!

[@DaRyteJuan]

After what happened to me at my family care doctor, watching this video breaks my heart into pieces. She really seemed to care about me. Then she molested me for whatever reason I can’t figure out. Now we’re in court and she’s LYING her tail off. Like … WHAT? Who IS this person? 😢

[@lerbyexantus2462]

I love this

[@mymdthoughts5494]

Glad you liked it!

[@ryanlanuzga9246]

What pre-med course do you recommend for family medicine?

[@akoaygago9996]

I have a question pls answer this. Does a Family Medicine perform any kind of Surgeries Either emergency or Basic surgery.

[@LeopardGeckoTree]

Do family physicians have to do surgery?

[@mymdthoughts5494]

They can be involved in some surgical procedures. In training, they generally spend 1-2 months on a surgical rotation. In practice that can do as little of it as they like, or they can incorporate some office or even OR surgical procedures depending on their skillset and training.

[@torystrending7285]

Awesome

[@mymdthoughts5494]

Thanks!

[@artemirrlazaris7406]

Was thinking due to the recent nonsense of sexual complaints in the public sphere, it would be advisable that any doctor that must perform a gentalia examine and or other regions, have a mock, and dummy setup and explain what they are about to do to them, and reasons why. The reaons why people come go to a doctor is for help, but there seems ot be a strange world developing, this also doesn't include theorhetical teqniques. So, imo, ot best protect oneself, have a dummy soft core body, and or a gentalia make up. What in teh world is happening. WHo knows.. Having a dummy andquickly stating the reaons for the procedure or evaluation of response is probably a good thing.

[@JasonGafar]

The father who paid ten thousand dollars for his daughter who fainted: I felt the frustration in him. Not fair at all.

[@edkensalexandre7043]

I didn't even know Family Physician could perform endoscopy. I thought they were performed solely by Gastroenterologists..

[@mymdthoughts5494]

Endoscopy was originally part of a general surgeon's scope of practice, actually, but gastroenterology has taken a lot of this turf since its inception as a sub-specialty. General surgeons still do endoscopy. Family doctors and general internists can do endoscopy if they are trained adequately and are able to get privileges. This tends to be more common in lower resource settings (rural areas), largely because GIs tend to fight a little more for this turf in higher resource settings (urban areas). To be fair, family docs performing endoscopy are the fairly rare exception rather than the rule, and if you have to hand pick your residency training if it's something that is important to you.

[@edkensalexandre7043]

@@mymdthoughts5494 thank you so much for your input. It is very much appreciated!

[@yehtom4055]

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