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Old 04-29-2012, 10:08 AM   #3
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You'd need to check in the radiology forum, but I strongly suspect the job locations are more limited specific to pediatric radiology than to fellowship-trained pediatricians. Regardless, whereas it is true that pedi heme/onc, cardiology and GI hepatology and nutrition are primarily located in academic hospitals and non-academic children's hospitals, there are plenty of these in moderately sized towns as well as big cities. You won't do any of these fields in communities of 20,000 folks, unless they are reasonably close to a bigger city you can commute to, but it isn't just a handful of cities that have pedi fellowship trained specialists.
thanks for the info, oldbearprofessor. do you (or anyone else for that matter) think it would be unwise to do pediatrics if i have no intention of not specializing? meaning, if i didn't get a fellowship i'd probably be unhappy doing inpatient/outpatient peds. thanks guys, i'm just trying to figure this stuff out.
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