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I'm applying to anesthesia residency this year... Should I do my subi in surgery or medicine? Does it matter for residency and / or my own benefit?

Thanks everybody.

I'm doing mine in medicine. I figured that would be more helpful because there's a few months of medicine during intern year.

Critical care (surgical or medical). You won't learn much that is relevant to anesthesia from managing surgical or medical floor patients. Do an ICU month, work hard, get a letter from an intensivist. It may sound trite but you will get out of it what you put into it.

Best would be trauma or Surgical ICU.

I'm doing both a SICU Sub-I and a Inpatient medicine sub-I. Unfortunately neither will be soon enough to garner a letter. The Inpatient Sub-I is more to make myself feel better before starting PGY-1 (most likely TY which is mainly medicine floor months).

Originally Posted by Lurch

Critical care (surgical or medical). You won't learn much that is relevant to anesthesia from managing surgical or medical floor patients. Do an ICU month, work hard, get a letter from an intensivist. It may sound trite but you will get out of it what you put into it.

This is what I did and I thought it was a fantastic experience.

I did 2 SICU months.

Still had to pick between a medicine and surgical sub-I. I picked medical. Best decision I made.

the surgical sub-I's were relegated to consults, scut, and being in the OR til late. Medical provided me another month to get my medical info down, and a better work schedule. I had to see medical ICU patients as part of this, as well. So, I got a little of that, too.

Originally Posted by likeaboss

I'm applying to anesthesia residency this year... Should I do my subi in surgery or medicine? Does it matter for residency and / or my own benefit?

Thanks everybody.

I did mine in medicine, purposefully. Not sure it mattered one way or another and I'm sure it's institution specific. The only "bad" part I could see about a surgical sub-I is that depending on the institution you could just end up being scutted out. This is probably less likely in a more "controlled' medicine setting....

A busy medicine service still requires a work up and game plan, but a busy surgical service CAN mean mindless note writing and maybe not being included in real management of patients on the floor (versus in the OR which I wouldn't even prioritize as you're not going to become a surgeon in a month). Again, I'm sure this is service and institution specific, however so please take with a grain of salt.

So seems like MICU > SICU....

Thanks for the advice everyone ... This is very helpful....