11. TEN FACTORS TO CONSIDER IN SPECIALTY
SELECTION
•GENERALIST, SPECIALIST, OR NONE OF THE
ABOVE
•INTELLECTUAL CONTENT AND CLINICAL ISSUES
•AMOUNT OF PATIENT CONTACT
•TYPE OF PATIENTS ENCOUNTERED
•PRESTIGE, STATUS, AND SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS
12. TEN FACTORS TO CONSIDER IN SPECIALTY
SELECTION
• LIFESTYLE CONSIDERATIONS
• LENGTH OF RESIDENCY TRAINING
• DIFFICULTY OF OBTAINING A RESIDENCY OR
FELLOWSHIP POSITION
• FUTURE INCOME AND EARNING POTENTIAL
• JOB OPPORTUNITIES AND PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE
SPECIALIST WORKFORCE
13. PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT: ARE YOU MY
TYPE?
• PERSONALITY TYPE AND MEDICAL SPECIALTY
• THE MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR
• Extroversion (E) versus Introversion (I)
• Sensing (S) versus Intuition (N)
• Thinking (T) versus Feeling (F)
• Judgment (J) versus Perception (P)
14.
15. SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR WOMEN
• CHALLENGES FOR TODAY’S FEMALE PHYSICIAN
• CAREER SATISFACTION AMONG FEMALE PHYSICIANS
1. How Do You Envision Your Practice Style?
2. Could You Handle Working in a Predominantly Male Environment?
3. Will You Be Able to Take Maternity Leave, Have Children, and Raise a
Family?
• SEX AND SURGERY: BEING A FEMALE PHYSICIAN IN THE OR
19. Eat , pray , love
• Learn how to balance the intensity and demands of a residency with
personal and family time and interests
20. During your working hours
• Keep yourself well hydrated
• Always keep some cookies or biscuits nearby
• Avoid bringing expensive stuff at work
• Stay clean , stay safe
• Get your vaccination soon
• Always have extra coat , extra cloths in your bag or locker
• Be aware of shark infested water
• Keep your family safe !
• Use a smart phone , but be more smarter
22. Fighting fatigue
• Why doctors leaving residency ?
• Why they treat patient badly ?
• Why they do not look like doctors anyway ?
23. Sleep and shift work
• Night shifts require doctors to be alert when their bodies tell them to
sleep.
• Working at night generates an increasing sleep debt.
• Sleep-deprived residents have more attentional failures and make
more clinical errors and incorrect diagnoses.
• Residents have more road traffic accidents when tired.
• Exhaustion erases recent learning.
24. • 20-25 hours without sleep – as might be experienced by a resident who has just
worked 24-hour call – reduces psychomotor performance to the level of someone
with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.10%. This is even greater than the level
(0.08%) at which it becomes illegal to operate a motor vehicle in the United
States.
25. Preparing for a night call rotation
• Build a successful normal sleep routine.
• Get extra sleep before working the first night shift.
• Take a two-hour afternoon nap before coming on duty.
26. Surviving the night shift
• Take 20- to 45-minute naps to counteract fatigue.
• Your alertness will be improved by exposure to bright light during the
night.
• Do not miss routine meals when working at night.
• Use caffeine cautiously, if at all, as it is a stimulant.
27. Recovering from the night shift
• If planning a long drive home, consider the risks.
• Once home, try to sleep immediately.
• Develop a routine for sleeping during the daytime.
• Keep your sleep debt to a minimum.
30. Dress code for doctors
Why we should get dressed well anyway !!
31. Dress Codes
• Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center prohibits recreational
clothing, stretch pants, sleeveless shirts, low-cut shirts, dresses
without backs, and sheer fabrics. It also mandates that piercings
beyond the ears and tattoos be covered.
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32. • Hippocrates said That doctors should "be clean in person, well-dressed, and
anointed with sweet-smelling unguents."
• According to a study published in the "Journal of the American Medical
Association," many doctors do just that when they could be promoting more trust
in the physician-patient relationships by simply dressing appropriately. Of the
study's nearly 300 respondents, nearly all agreed that doctors should dress
professionally while on duty, and that they associate doctors' wardrobe with
levels of honesty and quality care.
33. • White coats don't help unless a doctor's overall appearance is neat
and clean. And the doctor must have a pleasant expression
• Is attire important? Yes! Is personality important? Yes. Everything is
important!"
34. Defining Professional Attire
• Dressing the part -- especially when you're new to the
profession -- can help you gain respect and compliance from
your patients.
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35. Dress code for a female doctors
• Step 1: Dress to attract -- not distract
• Step 2 : Save the stilettos
• Step 3 : Accessorize appropriately.
• Step 4 : Follow trends.
• Step 5 : Be practical. Keep in mind the demands of your work-day
when dressing for your shift.
36. Safety Guidelines
• As you get dressed before work, consider the safety of your patients and the threat of
contamination from garments.
• Since 2007, the United Kingdom has advised a "bare below the elbows" approach. It
advises doctors to avoid wearing long sleeves or wrist jewelry that might spread diseases
from one patient to another.
• In the United States, the AMA recommends that physicians wear clothing that is
appropriate to the work setting, and always clean.
• Balance professional attire, your comfort and the potential for cross-contamination when
choosing clothing, suggests the authors of "Healthcare Personnel Attire in Non-
Operating-Room Settings," published by the the University of Chicago Press in 2014.
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