Internal Medicine Interest Group

Physician STATs

1.  Name: ____Emily Chang___ 2. Age: ____36______

3.  College: ____Stanford______4. Medical School: ______UNC______

5.  Residency: _UNC/the best!!! Current 6. Fellowship: ______UNC_Next year__

a.  Reasons for selecting your residency/fellowship: I love acid/base stuff and looking at electrolytes. The nephrology department here had a huge influence on me with their fun and exciting personalities.

7.  Current title(s): UNC Internal Medicine Resident

a.  Reasons for current title (may include brief trajectory of your career, interests or even how your interests have changed over time): This is where I chose to be-go tarheels!

8.  Have you had any seminal moments during your medical career – particularly ones that ignited an interest in your chosen field? The turning point for me was second year of medical school during the renal block, when I first got jazzed by the analysis of electrolytes and trying to understand the cause of the perturbations.

9.  What other career options were you considering? Sports medicine, Orthopedics, geriatrics

10.  What – in all honesty – do you do? I spend time between talking to patients, writing notes, putting in orders, trying to arrange logistics (prescriptions, home health, etc) and reading to learn. I go to conferences because as a second and third year resident, I have had much more time to do these things.

11.  What is your favorite part of the job? I love thinking through differential diagnosis for a patient problem and thinking about what I can do to help them.

12.  What is your ‘least favorite’ part of your job? I think sometimes I get frustrated with all of the paperwork and logistics to work out for a patient and that sucks. I also hate when I feel stupid (a lot), but I guess that comes with the territory

13.  What is the dirtiest part of your job? Manual disimpaction

14.  What is the part of your job that you least expected to be doing? I don’t remember what I expected

15.  How do you see your specialty changing in the future? Clearly I am not a very forward thinker, more in the present kind of person. But I think what happens in politics will soon be having a very large impact on our field. Not sure how but primary care discussions will be key.

16.  Do you work in public or private medicine? Academic or non-academic? Public but I want to be in academia

17.  What are your hobbies? Sports (play volleyball now and watch many sports) karaoke, TV, food

18.  How much personal freedom do you have? A LOT!! This is not a problem when you are single!

19.  How flexible is your job in terms of scheduling and tasks? Medium, as long as colleagues are willing to help out, you can usually find ways to manage the important things. It will be better after I finish residency.