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During internship and residency, we often found ourselves switching between multiple apps, PDFs, and guidelines while writing OPD prescriptions.

To solve this problem, a few friends and I compiled common OPD and casualty cases across multiple specialties into a single quick reference handbook.

The Gold Standard OPD Advice Volume I

It contains:

1. Guideline based management

2. Drug doses and investigations

3. Referral red flags

4. Practical OPD advice

The project is AI assisted but clinician curated. It is intended as a quick reference(about 370pages) resource rather than a replacement for clinical judgment or guidelines.

We recently launched it ahead of Doctors' Day and would genuinely appreciate feedback from the medical community.

Sample pages and details are available here:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DaNPL\_XGKu0/?igsh=OWh5MmVqMDY2enJv

Cracked NEET UG in my first attempt after Class 12.

Years later, cracked INI-CET in my first attempt after internship and secured a 3-digit rank.

Today, I'm a doctor pursuing MD Emergency Medicine in one of the AIIMS.

The best part? It's not the rank but the opportunity to learn making critical decisions and help save someone on their worst possible day.

Just sharing a milestone that took years in the making. Still learning,still pushing forward.

Not what your parents wanted, not what seemed practical,what career do you genuinely think you'd have pursued?

Would you be happier, wealthier, less stressed, or do you think medicine was always the right choice?

Curious to hear the alternate lives all imagine for themselves.

Hello Everyone, I am JR1 Emergency Medicine in one of the AIIMS 5 months into residency, I secured a rank of 9XX last November INI-CET in my very first attempt.

From my experience let's start with the pros first:

1. The broadest branch in medicine. ( Yes broader than general medicine) You need to manage emergencies from Gen Medicine, Gen Surg, trauma cases, paedia, obg, eye, ent, ortho.

2. The kind of doctors that saves life. Emergency medicine physicians are jack of all trades and master of resuscitation. I think that's pretty satisfying and important. Managing thousands of Code MI, code stroke, code Sepsis, polytrauama from MCIs becomes a part of your daily life.

3. Work life balance- Moderate. You will have off days and shift based duties( 12hr/8hr depending on institute). Comparatively better than other branches.

4. Procedure procedure and procedures( RSI, central venous catheterisation, arterial catheterisation, ICD, SPC, bronchoscopy, UGIE, regional nerve blocks and many many more)

5. Supply demand gap- There is immense need of Emergency Medicine physicians all over the world including india. ( Every ED even in best of the best hospitals are under staffed)

Cons:

1. Too much chaos - you can expect yourself to be interrupted and draw to a new task every 5min or less. Some days/nights can be just hell.

2. Legal and violence issues when you start your practice are of concerns too.

3. In india still a developing branch in it's early stage( Although I personally believe EM has immense potential in coming 5years)

What kind of personality fits emergency medicine?

1. You are a 100m sprint runner type rather than marathon runner. Perform high risk high reward tasks for a comparatively shorter duration and recharge yourself during your rest days.

2. You like differentials and patient interaction. Highest patient interaction will be in Emergency so if you don't like that it's not for you. You will be the first doctor to see the patient in their worst possible state and with bare minimum information/test results available. Be ready to stabilize the patient as per protocols, rule out 5Hs and 5Ts and start making differentials. Every minute of your duty will be adrenaline filled.

3. You hate follow ups. One of the very few clinical specialities where once your duty is over you have the power to switch off your phones and not bother about anything work related.

Our punchline is: Running towards what others run away from.

Hope this post helps. You may connect with me on socials( link posted in my profile).

During entrance prep, I used to sit at home and study 10–12 hours a day. It was exhausting, draining with only one aim to get out of the rat race but now during residency that days felt simpler, and much better somehow.

Now in residency, everything feels way more draining. Long hours, constant responsibilities, being away from home,it’s a completely different kind of stress.

Sometimes I catch myself thinking those “locked-in at home studying all day” phases were actually better than this.

Anyone else feel this way during residency? Or is this just a phase I need to get used to?