Name: 6 Signs You’ll Be a Great Doctor
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Students often ask me, “should I become

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That's a highly personal question that I cannot answer for you.

But what I can tell you are the traits that make for great doctors.

If you can identify with these 6 signs, chances are you'll be a phenomenal physician.

For those who are new here, my name is Dr. Kevin Jubbal.

I earned my M.D. from UC San Diego and matched into plastic surgery.

If you'd like to know more about my story, the realities of being a doctor, and what

it was like to do plastic surgery, visit my vlog channel.

Without resilience, you probably won't get to the point of being able to call yourself

That's because the path to becoming a fully licensed and board certified physician is

During the four years in undergrad, you're competing with other brilliant college pre-meds

to earn your seat at medical school, and your medical school pre-requisite courses and the

Next up, just when you thought you knew how to study and be efficient, medical school

You'll spend the first two years learning more knowledge than you thought possible,

culminating in the most challenging and high stakes test of your life – USMLE Step 1.

Next, you'll spend two years in your clinical rotations, or clerkships,

followed by Step 2CK and then you'll do the application process all over again, this

Once in residency, it's a marathon to finish with anywhere from 3-7 additional years,

plus time for further sub-specialization in fellowship.

The path to becoming a doctor is long and challenging, but that's not why you need

Everyone faces unforeseen obstacles along the way – that's just life.

Facing and overcoming those obstacles while still completing the most challenging professional

professional training in the world requires great resilience – the ability to bounce back.

For me, that was overcoming Crohn's colitis, family emergencies, and financial hardship

all concurrently during my college career.

For others it's losing a loved one, or becoming injured in a freak accident, and for others

it's overcoming deeply ingrained bad study habits that result in subpar grades and MCAT

If you need help getting better marks, check out our website.

While resilience is important, it's only half of the equation.

When things aren't working, the answer isn't to get up and keep doing the same things over

and over expecting a different result – that's just insanity.

If you're adaptable, this will be your superpower in the journey to becoming a doctor.

As a pre-med, being adaptable means navigating the highly competitive and cutthroat landscape

It means trying new things and failing, but more importantly learning from your mistakes

It means figuring out why you're not getting straight A's, then going to Med School Insiders

to learn how to study more effectively, and adapting your study strategies until you're

Hit the like button if any of my videos have helped you improve your grades.

As a medical student, being adaptable is taking everything up a notch.

It means looking at why you're not getting a good night's rest and adapting your morning

and nightly rituals to improve your sleep, which increases your effectiveness during

And yes, you should be getting adequate sleep even when you're waking up at 3:30 AM every

It means totally overhauling your study habits once more because what worked in college isn't

is not going to cut it in medical school.

It means figuring out how to be useful in not only the operating room, but also the

delivery room, or the psych ward, or the pediatric ICU.

It means adapting to the different personalities of your different attending physicians who

are in different specialties, because what gets you an Honors in surgery is not necessarily

As a resident, being adaptable means becoming even more self-reliant on your own systems

External structure, pressure, and deadlines are reduced in residency, but now a failure to be at the

top of your game translates to lesser care for your patients.

Adaptability as a resident means taking responsibility and ownership of your patients, and it means

adapting to the highly variable demands on each rotation.

And as an attending physician, you will still have to adapt. Now you will be adapting to the constantly changing practice

Confidence is necessary to be an effective physician, but it should not be confused with

No matter how smart or hard working you are, you'll never know all there is to know in

The amount of information is too vast, and it expands every day with newly published

You will face many days where you don't know the answer, or when new research contradicts

For that reason, a willingness to admit gaps in your knowledge is necessary.

At the same time, don't let the expanse of medical information scare you into thinking

Imposter syndrome is surprisingly common, and it's nothing to be ashamed of.

Feigned confidence acts as a thin veil that can easily be disturbed, but real confidence

is earned through diligent work and experience.

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

You start off not getting the results you want.

You assess, adapt, and implement new systems.

From there you repeat, again and again, assess, adapt, and implement.

Each win gives you a little more confidence, allowing you to take on bigger risks.

At that point, you'll have the confidence to walk into the operating room without second

And trust me, the last thing your patient or healthcare team wants to see is a surgeon

But remember, be humble, and never let it get to your head.

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