Hi everyone, i am hoping some of you could offer some advice to a very confused intern. it seems that EM people, more so than others LOVE EM and know that's what they want to do. I never really found something that i HAD to do. In med school, i always enjoyed every rotation, and i am generally one of those people that really enjoyes medicine. In med school, i mostly considered medicine and PM&R, medicine because i was always intersted in the intellectual part of it, the making the diagnosis and all, and PM&R for the lifestyle b/c i have a baby. I did a required EM rotation, and like most things didn't love it, but enjoyed it. A part of me was afraid of medicine b/c i was afraid that i din't have what it taked to make big decisions. i ended up matching into PM&R.
Fast forward to now, i am an intern in a transitional year and i discovered that i do like medicine and that i am good at it and the whole year everyone is telling that's that i should do it. i finally decided that PM&R is not for me. one of the fields that interest me the most is cardiology and this is where i started to think about EM. i am 29, I would probably be 36 before i could do cardio, and my favorite part of cardiology (or any other field) has always been the diagnosis. so someone floated the idea that since i like diagnosing, cardiology, critical care medicine, i should do em. i would be done sooner, the lifestyle would be better, and i like the idea of not having to "run my own business". here are some things that concern me:
1. i don't like trauma/procedures that much and all the EM people love it. i would rather just do the "medical emergencies"
2. i have a terrible memmory, and am afraid that EM, being the broadest specialy, that i would miss something
3. i always found my ER shifts to be exhausting, meaning not like on medicine, where u sit and write notes, but then again in IM private practice, you are running from room to room all day.
anywho, i cannot believe how long this post is, any ideas?
Fast forward to now, i am an intern in a transitional year and i discovered that i do like medicine and that i am good at it and the whole year everyone is telling that's that i should do it. i finally decided that PM&R is not for me. one of the fields that interest me the most is cardiology and this is where i started to think about EM. i am 29, I would probably be 36 before i could do cardio, and my favorite part of cardiology (or any other field) has always been the diagnosis. so someone floated the idea that since i like diagnosing, cardiology, critical care medicine, i should do em. i would be done sooner, the lifestyle would be better, and i like the idea of not having to "run my own business". here are some things that concern me:
1. i don't like trauma/procedures that much and all the EM people love it. i would rather just do the "medical emergencies"
2. i have a terrible memmory, and am afraid that EM, being the broadest specialy, that i would miss something
3. i always found my ER shifts to be exhausting, meaning not like on medicine, where u sit and write notes, but then again in IM private practice, you are running from room to room all day.
anywho, i cannot believe how long this post is, any ideas?