Tmc Podcast: Interviews With Medical Specialists

Dr. Sern Yeoh is a Gastroenterology fellow who completed majority of his junior training at Austin Hospital and travelled to Hobart for the beginning of his Advanced Training. In this podcast, he talks about how he decided to pursue Gastroenterology and other specialities he was interested in along the way. We discuss the diversity of subspecialities available in gastroenterology and how a registrar can be expected to split themselves between inpatients, outpatients, endoscopy, research and several other jobs throughout a normal week. Dr. Yeoh also goes through the number of hours a gastro registrar is expected to work, including on call, weekends and overtime, touching on how difficult it can be to maintain good work-life balance. Dr. Yeoh gives us his stance on whether or not medical students/junior doctors should spend time pursuing research to make them competitive candidates when applying for hospital positions. He also provides details on how to find research projects that are the most “high-yield”