#26 Internal Medicine Resident Interview - Lifestyle, Extracurriculars, and Finding Your Voice

Gillian is from the larger Philadelphia area and initially studied Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Scranton and worked in social services as a Case Manager after college. She then transitioned to Vaccine Development NIH-funded research as a clinical coordinator at the University of Vermont while taking pre-med classes. She attended medical school at Penn State College of Medicine, where she also earned her Masters in Education and was recognized with the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine award and the Gold Humanism Honor Society. During medical school, she also held multiple statewide and national positions such as Chair for the Committee on Bioethics & Humanities for the American Medical Association-Medical Student Section, Board of Trustee for the Pennsylvania Medical Society, State Director on the Pennsylvania Political Action Committee Board of Directors for the Pennsylvania Medical Society. She was served as an Editorial Fellow with the AMA Journal of Ethics in 2019. She matched at TJUH in Internal Medicine where she was recognized with multiple teaching awards including Hobart Amory Hare Resident Teaching Award, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and teaching award, and the Darilyn Moyer, MD, FACP Professionalism Award for Trainees in Southeastern PA. She is interested in a career in academic hospital medicine and medical education crafting curriculum that incorporates health system science and humanism topics in medicine. ___ 0:00 - Intro 1:29 - Statistics About Internal Medicine 3:55 - What Is Internal Medicine? 7:25 - Why Internal Medicine? 15:18 - What Was IM Residency Like? 17:23 - Plans for Designing a Curriculum 19:22 - Shooting Incident at the Hospital 23:02 - Best Thing About Being an IM Doctor 26:09 - Worst Thing About Being an IM Doctor 27:14 - Work Intensity and an Average Day as a Resident 34:14 - The Best Year of Residency 35:19 - An Average Outpatient Day/Week 38:32 - If I Give You $100 Million, What Would You Do? 43:56 - Things You Wish You Knew Before Coming Into IM 45:33 - Characteristics of a Student Best for IM 50:00 - Advice for People Looking Into Internal Medicine 51:22 - Maximizing Competitiveness Going Into IM Residency 54:03 - Things Learned From Residency 56:53 - Common Mistakes 1:00:49 - Positive Qualities & Characteristics You Admire 1:03:05 - Closing Message 1:04:14 - Outro __ Resources ___ View the Show Notes Page for This Episode for a transcript and more information: zhighley.com/podcast ___ Connect With Zach Main YouTube: @ZachHighley Newsletter: https://zhighley.com/newsletter/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zachhighley... Website: https://zhighley.com Twitter: Twitter: zachhighley Linkedln: LinkedIn: zach-highley-gergel-44763766 Business Inquiries: [email protected] ___ Listen for Free Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/23TvJdE... Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... ___ Welcome to the Zach Highley Show, where we discuss personal growth and medicine to figure out how to improve our lives. My name is Zach a Resident Physician in Boston. Throughout these episodes, I’ll interview top performers from around the world in business, life, and medicine in hopes of extracting the resources and techniques they use to get to the top. The best way to help the show is to share episodes on any platform. If you think a friend or family member will like a certain episode, send it to them!