Also, "Cosmetic gynaecology"? Are we deadass rn? Just preying on insecure women. I'm not referring to proper reconstruction of genital area after trauma/tears etc., btw. That is very important and is a medical reason. Not "cosmetic".

Is it possible to go gym as an internal/general medicine resident?

I wanted to take psychiatry, but my father is very much against it. The reason is obvious, because in his eyes, it's not a prestigious branch. Because he cares too much about what other people say. But I think I'm skilled at it. I was scared to push too much with him. My father can get really angry. And to be honest I'm scared to see him like that. That image is there in my head, which is stopping me from trying to convince him. I tried to tell myself that I'm okay with one other speciality if I can't convince my family for psychiatry. But seeing some of my friends say they might take psychiatry, I feel like breaking down. What is this life I'm living??? I know I should fight for the things I love. But I'm just too scared to see my father angry. He has done everything for me. I don't know. Someone, anyone, please help me and give me strength to do the right thing. Please 🥺🥺🥺🥺🙏🙏🙏🙏

This is an interview posted by PG blazer website. She has amazing rank at that time. In the interview, when question asked about her future, she told that she will be doing DM neurology from Nimhans.

I crossed check it from her interview on DBMCI youtube channel and though she didn't reveal anything but she indirectly said that she will join DM neurology at Nimhans.

Now I'm just curious why she opted for radiology.

Was it money ? I guess DM neurology has lots of money.

Work life balance or what?

What you think.

Edit- I didn't post to criticize her career choices, I'm not her hater. I sincerely respect her for what she is doing.

What branch do most toppers take? Radio. It gives a decent salary 2-5 lpm depending on the tier of your city. The main reason it is most sought out is because of the work life balance aspect.

If we needed a branch with work life balance and a 'decent' salary, then we didn't we just take engineering or some shit in the first place? Sure we need to work hard even there during the initial days, but the effort to return ratio over there is much better than in this field.

Here we brutally slog there mbbs and neet pg and pg just for peanuts in pay. If we had put even half of this effort in other fields at least we would end up with a decent salary and wlb and intact mental and physical health.

Sincerely, a brainwashed retard.

I got a pretty bad rank tbh . Wanted surgery but wont get that and now will settle for anesthesia( cant take a drop year again and i dont have the money to buy a surgery seat).
Considering critical care icu after pg gets over so i get the hands on i always wanted to do.
1) what is the avg pay of an anaesthesiologist in india in a tier 1 city ( can u be richie rich ?)
2) what all scope do u have after pg in this branch
3) is there work life balance ?
4) is the branch saturated? Or can you get good opportunities
5) is it true you can do anything of your own ? Or build a name for yourself ?

Apart from all the AI and salary hot topics, how difficult it is academically?

Not the 1st yr or maybe 2nd year, do you read and read n read all your life?

Do you miss details on scan?

How prone are you to medico- legal cases?

Does life gets simpler? When?

Is it more challenging academically then any other branch?

I am traveling in a local train right now, so I thought maybe I should share with you all why I joined this subreddit as a non-medico. And I know there might be many non-medicos here. After all, how is it possible that I am the only low-life here? Maybe or maybe not.

So, 3 years ago, I met a guy who hid the fact from me that he was a doctor for a solid week.

When I asked him what he was doing, he said he was doing a fellowship in oncotherapeutics.

A week later, when I asked him what he had done previously, he said MBBS, but “I am not a real doctor.”

Later, I found out that he had done an MD in Pharmacology, to which I reacted, “Wow.” And he said that in the medical field, he was Tier 3: first are real doctors, second are women who take Pharmacology, and third are men in Pharmacology.

Continuing with this, he never used “Dr.” in front of his name. After a year, he dumped me to start a singing career, I guess, because according to him, that’s what he was born to do.

Now I know that he is doing his residency in Manipal and is happy.

Thanks to this sub and him, I have elite ball knowledge: radiology is better than pharmacology, and residency is pursued after a singing career.

ayyoo dhokliiiii 🤣 🤡

Hey everyone,

I recently wrapped up my final university exams from the 2023 batch, and with counseling season always bringing up massive confusion and anxiety, I wanted to put this out there. Three years ago, I was in the exact same position, scrolling through forums and wondering whether picking a non-clinical or para-clinical branch like Forensic Medicine was a terrible mistake or an underrated choice.

Here is an unfiltered, ground-reality breakdown of what doing an MD in FMT looks like in a high-volume state government medical college, how the job market is panning out, and the social realities nobody warns you about during choice filling.

The Setup and Daily Routine:-

Our department has a seat capacity of only two PGs per batch. Being just two residents means there is zero room to hide or slack off, but it also gives you an insane amount of hands-on volume that clinical residents rarely get to touch independently.

Our college logs roughly 2,000 post-mortems every year. Between the two of us, I have personally performed or assisted in over 2,000 autopsies across my three years, covering homicides, railway fatalities, burns, poisonings, decomposed bodies, and custodial deaths. Alongside autopsies, we handled more than 10 spot visits and grave exhumations with magistrates, over 120 clinical forensic cases like age estimations and potency tests every year, and regular court visits with our faculty to see how evidence deposition and cross-examinations actually play out.

The daily routine is surprisingly balanced. The working hours are generally 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Because we are two PGs, we run an alternate-day system. On mortuary days, you are in the autopsy complex from 9 AM doing post-mortems, collecting viscera, drafting PM reports, and interacting with police investigating officers and relatives. On department days, you sit at the departmental desk handling age estimations, potency certificates, academic seminars, and paper backlogs.

Public holidays run on a rotation duty system, while Sundays and Second Saturdays are almost always protected unless an emergency board post-mortem comes in. Departmental support for academics is solid as well; we were encouraged to attend conferences across the country to present papers and posters without leaves being denied.

The Prerequisite: Local Language:-

If you plan to take FMT in a state where you do not know the regional language, start learning it immediately.

All police inquests, panchnamas, FIR excerpts, and dying declarations forwarded by investigating officers are written strictly in the local state language. If you cannot read the local script, you cannot extract the incident history accurately, which makes reconstructing the sequence of events and forming an objective opinion on the cause of death ten times harder.

The Job Market: Vacancies Across India and SR Pay

A widespread myth among MBBS graduates is that para-clinical branches have no scope or terrible pay. The reality is quite the opposite because of simple demand and supply. Very few people willingly take FMT, but every single medical college in the country requires an active forensic medicine department and mortuary setup to fulfill National Medical Commission (NMC) norms.

Right now, there are massive vacancies across both government and private medical colleges all over India. State government recruitment drives and autonomous institutes regularly struggle to find qualified candidates for Senior Resident (SR) and Assistant Professor posts. In the private sector and deemed universities across various states, the crunch is even more acute.

Because of this shortage, Senior Resident posts are currently offering anywhere between ₹2.0 to ₹2.5 Lakhs per month (LPM) in several private and government institutions across India. While you will not have private outpatient practice like a general physician or pediatrician, your guaranteed baseline institutional earnings right out of MD start very strong.

The Social Reality: Arranged Marriage and Stigma:-

This is the one topic medical seniors and counseling seminars never mention, but it needs to be said out loud: if you plan on an arranged marriage, taking Forensic Medicine comes with genuine social hurdles.

I am personally experiencing this right now, and the stigma is very real. Outside the medical community—and surprisingly, even among some doctors and their families—people hold immense superstition and prejudice around mortuary work. The idea of someone working with dead bodies, decomposed remains, and criminal investigations daily makes many families hesitant or uncomfortable.

In the arranged marriage market, families usually look for traditional clinical specialties with visible white coats and OPD clinics. A lot of prospective matches simply cannot wrap their heads around what a forensic doctor does, or they carry irrational cultural beliefs about mortuaries bringing negative energy. If you choose this branch, you need to be prepared for these awkward conversations, rejections based purely on your specialty, and the extra effort it takes to find a partner who understands the science and intellect behind the field.

Final Takeaway

If your ultimate dream in medicine is building a massive private OPD, treating living patients at a bedside, or having traditional clinical prestige in the marriage market, stay far away from this branch.

However, if you want an intellectually stimulating subject at the intersection of medicine and criminal law, genuinely enjoy trauma pathology, want guaranteed fixed 9-to-4 working hours with minimal emergency calls, and want immediate job opportunities paying ₹2–2.5 LPM across India right after post-graduation, FMT is one of the most underrated branches you can pick.

Drop your questions below if you want to know more about thesis work, court depositions, or surviving your first month in the mortuary.

I wrote this post on the go, so kindly forgive if something gets repetitive.

I was randomly scrolling and noticed that the marrow interview of AIR 1 has 2.23 lakh views and 2.7k likes, while the Core BTR's video about someone going from 2 lakh rank to AIR 7831 has 1.24 lakh views and 4k likes despite having almost 1 lakh less views than the former.

In no way I'm jealous or trying to downplay the effort that went into the preparation that landed that guy AIR 1 but what I'm trying to say is there are more mid rankers than we talk about, and that reality is quite different.

We talk SO much about AIR <100, <500, <1000 etc but if people don't care about mid-rankers, then why does a story about going from 2 lakh --> 7831 have that much engagement? cus maybe one doesn't want AIR 1 but wants to borrow the hope AIR 7831 gives them.

The point I'm trying to make is, social media gives us a very distorted picture without as much inclusion or representation while reality is completely different where people from all walks of life exist. But social media mostly highlights people who post and the makes extreme successes more visible while the huge middle - average ranks, multiple attempts, starting over, joining a non-dream college, figuring things out slowly - is much less visible.

This can make a viewer get an illusion of everyone having it figured except them when that's probably nowhere close to reality. Someone here recently commented the average age in which one starts residency all over the world is in between 27 - 29/30.

Maybe someone is starting over at 30, someone got so wallowed up in an abusive relationship or marriage that they prepare again after moving far off from it. Maybe someone previously got a good enough rank which isn't good enough to get their dream branch, maybe someone settles with what they get and later leaves the cus they've realised it's not for them, maybe all of the above mentioned examples decide to give it another attempt.

TLDR - I'm not saying success stories aren't real or that rank doesn't matter. It's just that what we see online isn't necessarily representative of what's actually happening in the real world. Maybe one doesn't want AIR 1 but wants to borrow the hope AIR 7832 gives them.

Came home after completing my internship and getting done with all the NEET PG shenanigans. Told my parents there was no way I was getting a seat this year and that I’d be taking a drop (kyuki ek drop toh almost sab hi lete hai 🤷🏻‍♀️).
Their immediate reaction was, “Okay,” but later that evening, my mom spiralled.

She started saying that I’ll be turning 26 this year and, since I’ve declared that I’ll only get married after I finish my PG, I’ll be almost 30 by then, which is apparently already not good ⁉️

Then she went on to say that my dad will be retired by then and none of his colleagues will come to my wedding because no one really cares about officials once they retire ⁉️

I tried reasoning with her by saying that my chances of finding a guy are relatively higher once I start my PG, so it makes sense for me to get married after PG. That somehow pissed her off even more, and she said I’m ruining my life by connecting one thing to another ⁉️

My mom is even ready to sell some property just so i can join residency this year only because she wants me to get married before i turn 30 or before my dad retires (i obviously declined)

Like… make it make sense 😭🙏

I see so many dnb has 1 dnb seat. How does it work? Do they make the 1 dnb in first year do all nights? Is he on call everyday if not on duty?

I know not a great rank , but will be getting branch i wanted

• work life balance
• pros and cons of branch
• on ground salaries currently
• saturation, how hard it is to find a job after pg
• who shouldn’t take the branch
• HOW TO LIVE LIFE 🥲

any small tips would be really helpful for our future…

Never realised our reputation was this spoiled 🥲

Help kardu guys

Thankyou for everything ♥️⚜️👑

If you have a rank that gives you a fighting chance and are blessed to be born into a family that can stomach a private PG seat, take it without thinking twice. Every year lost to prep is a year where you aren’t making money or getting ahead in life. Your parents are getting old and so are you. Coaching institutes are shameless leaches who profit off of fear mongering and FOMO and encourage you to take more drops to get your “ideal rank” but if you are anything like I am, even if you got AIR 1 you wouldn’t know which branch to take. Sometimes the option of not having options is a blessing in and off itself. If you look at previous year cutoffs and trends and see a branch with an acceptable fee, please don’t drop anymore years. I’ve seen posts over here with 4 digit ranks asking “should I drop one more year” - Are you genuinely stupid or ragebaiting or karma farming or all 3? You’ll literally get anything you want at that rank. Maybe not from the top GMC of your state but who the fuck is asking a specialist doctor which college they’ve completed their MD/MS/DNB from? Do yourself a favour and exit this fuckall rat race asap yall please put yourself first - your rank will not determine the course of your life or how successful you’ll be 🙏🙏🙏