Specialty Spotlights

Welcome to my favorite section of ShortWhiteCoats.com! The Specialty Spotlights section provides information about each specialty in medicine from the primary source: the specialists themselves. I have interviewed numerous residents, fellows, and attending physicians with a list of questions that touches on the most pertinent information students need when making specialty decisions. Interviews have been conducted with doctors of every specialty from all over the country, see the list below for a small sample:

Neurology attending from the University of Michigan
Ophthalmology resident from Johns Hopkins
Family Medicine resident from a community program in Ohio
Radiology resident from New York, New York
Dermatology resident from Detroit, MI
And many more…

Each specialty page contains surveys completed by doctors that answer two sets of questions: Why should a person choose this specialty, and how to match in this specialty. In addition, I will soon post match results and data for each specialty. Click any specialty below to go to the specialty page.

Internal Medicine

Pathology

Pediatrics

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R)

Click Here to browse all interviews about choosing a specialty
Click Here to browse all interviews about how to match well in each specialty
And Click Here to browse all data regarding matching into each specialty [In Progress]

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Anonymous

July 4, 2013 at 12:08 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

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What about cardio
Ha

April 10, 2014 at 2:58 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

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I love your Specialty Spotlight interviews. They are so informative. Please update for more specialties if you have a chance. Great job!!! Looking forward to more posts on ENT, Cardio, and GI
1. Andrew
  
  July 13, 2015 at 4:09 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
  
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  Hi there,
  
  Thanks for the comment, we have recently had many more spotlight interviews loaded onto our site. Check them out!
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December 5, 2015 at 10:22 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

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Hi

Could you name some of undergraduate medicine program textbooks?
1. Andrew
  
  December 9, 2015 at 4:44 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
  
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  Hi, there are literally thousands of medical school textbooks so it would be very difficult to give you a list of something that general. In what topic are you interested in specifically?
Brian Lee

March 23, 2016 at 6:48 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

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Any chance of getting a "Why did you choose…" and/or "How to match in…" some of the IM subspecialties (e.g. hematology/oncology)? Thanks! 🙂
1. Andrew
  
  March 27, 2016 at 10:51 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
  
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  Thanks Brian. I LOVE this idea. I am going to get started on finding some internal medicine subspecialists to interview. It should be very informative. Thanks
Katie

December 28, 2016 at 11:57 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

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Hi Andrew,

Thank you so much for these! Looking forward to reading something on Peds in the future!
1. Andrew
  
  April 16, 2017 at 1:46 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
  
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  Thanks! I will get something up there soon.