Gift for new med student?

[Gunstore Commando]

One of my rookies just got accepted to med school! I am so proud of her!!

Thoughts, especially from them has done the gig, on an appropriate gift??

[Hasher]

My beat friend who is an MD gave his son a P226 when he got accepted to medical school.

I already know what his graduation present from residency is. Hint: All 3 of us will need new passports and some updated 4457 Forms.

[War Dawg]

May be too late to warn them what their financial planner might have said about the economic dangers of delaying a paying job until nearly your thirties, but here’s a try: https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Money-Timeless-lessons-happiness/dp/0857197681

Nonetheless, a fantastic accomplishment. Tell them to refuse to work for any healthcare organization. We need fewer socialist doctors.

[Huntindoc]

Diagnostic kit. Have the bottom engraved. Mine was stolen in residency while on rotation at the VA. They will also need a good stethoscope. Littman cardiology series is the standard and you can have the bell engraved but you may want to wait till you can add the MD or DO to the end of their name.


Probably the best gift you could give them though is to start a Roth IRA for them now. Any part time job and they can put money in or you can put it in for them.

Ignore the stupid fuckary about not working for a healthcare system or not starting a job till later in life. Some people just can’t keep from giving advice about things they know nothing about.

[Herbert West]

Tell her that no matter what advice she receives from her 'mentors' in med school, do not enter any hospital based specialty, i.e. Radiology, Pathology, or Anesthesiology. Best specialties are where no allied health practitioner will compete with you as 'they can do the same thing cheaper' mentality which is extolled by .gov and insurance providers.
As far as a gift is concerned, a nice stethoscope is cool, but many students receive them free from pharmaceutical companies when they enter their third year clinical rotations.
A great gift, I received was a quality timepiece, I recommend the same. I still have that Rolex from 1982!

[baker]

My wife still uses her otoscope that she received in Med school.

[Huntindoc]

Tell her that no matter what advice she receives from her 'mentors' in med school, do not enter any hospital based specialty, i.e. Radiology, Pathology, or Anesthesiology. Best specialties are where no allied health practitioner will compete with you as 'they can do the same thing cheaper' mentality which is extolled by .gov and insurance providers.
As far as a gift is concerned, a nice stethoscope is cool, but many students receive them free from pharmaceutical companies when they enter their third year clinical rotations.
A great gift, I received was a quality timepiece, I recommend the same. I still have that Rolex from 1982!

Where are you that they have NPs working as radiologists or pathologists? In anesthesia maybe but in TX only under the license of a physician. My friends in those specialties each make well over a million a year. Primary care has to fight against the push to treat NPs and PAs the same. Not those specialties.

I do like the timepiece idea but again, I would consider that for graduation from Med school or residency. If only my parents could have afforded one for me.

[IANative]

Just sharing what I've done w/ my jr. staff... two daughters, a son, and more recently a son-in-law... they all got a nice Spyderco upon graduation from HS, a Glock upon graduating college and an AR15 upon attainment of a post-grad degree. These weren't their only gifts, of course, but money and gift cards get spent, whereas each of them still has and carries every blade/gun I've ever gifted them.

[Herbert West]

Where are you that they have NPs working as radiologists or pathologists? In anesthesia maybe but in TX only under the license of a physician. My friends in those specialties each make well over a million a year. Primary care has to fight against the push to treat NPs and PAs the same. Not those specialties.

I do like the timepiece idea but again, I would consider that for graduation from Med school or residency. If only my parents could have afforded one for me.
At present, those practitioners may be doing well. Many radiology departments are outsourced, Pathology group contracts can be avoided almost instantly, without cause, and a new group takes over. I never said that rays and path used NP's btw. I was stating that those specialties lack the security that say a retinal specialist, or gastroenterologist, cardiologist may have.
Anesthesia groups are subject to the whims of the hospital administration and can have their contracts terminated without cause, though they usually have 60-90 day clauses, enough time to credential a new group. I know, as I managed several departments, consolidated them into one major entity and sold the 'groups'/corporation to a private equity firm. Also, many R/A/P are hospital employed, though earning in the 300k-400k category they are still salaried employees. Different practice parameters /compensation nationwide, as you may be well aware. The average salary I paid to my providers was roughly 350-400k, many could have earned 500k+ but didn't wish to live in South Dakota, Nebraska, or Illinois. For me, security was of utmost importance, which is why even though I started as an employee of group, which led to partnership, which led to my becoming the director, I didn't rely on that one contract, and branched out taking over other hospital groups and surgicenters. If one contract got cancelled, I had several others to guarantee my income stream.