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Hello, I'm currently pgy2 finishing the inpt yr, and like most other pgy2s, I'm trying to figure out which career path I want to commit myself to.
I enjoy doing spine / MSK / sports, and also possibly want to retain skills in EMG and bread/butter inpatient issues.
I enjoy procedures and get much satisfaction when patients get relief and improvement in symptoms & function from treatment, or pain controlled enough for patients to function. I want to be able to manage majority of spine issues (less interested in Pain-specific procedures). I also want to be able to incorporate ultrasound for axial / peripheral MSK dz management with a strong level of expertise.
I feel that doing a sports/spine fellowship will be something I would love doing, but I haven't seen or heard from anyone who actually practices the entire breadth of what they learn in fellowship (from few instances of what I heard, most ppl just end up doing spine?)
Having a high job satisfaction from being able to do a good management is probably the single most important thing to me.
I love PM&R and I'm extremely happy in being trained to become a physiatrist, but I my main concern is, by wanting to do so many different things, am I setting myself up to be a PM&R jack of all trades & master of none, which will result in less job satisfaction from not being able to manage a lot of the cases?
Or is it a realistic goal for me to want to develop very solid expertise in so many different aspects of PM&R (sports,spine,EMG, some inpt), and be able to at least handle >80-90% of cases? (I'm thinking of doing sports & spine, but perhaps I would want to do sports only, or spine only? I'm not sure what I should do....)
To those who're still reading, thank you for hearing my dilemma, and any feedback is greatly appreciated
I enjoy doing spine / MSK / sports, and also possibly want to retain skills in EMG and bread/butter inpatient issues.
I enjoy procedures and get much satisfaction when patients get relief and improvement in symptoms & function from treatment, or pain controlled enough for patients to function. I want to be able to manage majority of spine issues (less interested in Pain-specific procedures). I also want to be able to incorporate ultrasound for axial / peripheral MSK dz management with a strong level of expertise.
I feel that doing a sports/spine fellowship will be something I would love doing, but I haven't seen or heard from anyone who actually practices the entire breadth of what they learn in fellowship (from few instances of what I heard, most ppl just end up doing spine?)
Having a high job satisfaction from being able to do a good management is probably the single most important thing to me.
I love PM&R and I'm extremely happy in being trained to become a physiatrist, but I my main concern is, by wanting to do so many different things, am I setting myself up to be a PM&R jack of all trades & master of none, which will result in less job satisfaction from not being able to manage a lot of the cases?
Or is it a realistic goal for me to want to develop very solid expertise in so many different aspects of PM&R (sports,spine,EMG, some inpt), and be able to at least handle >80-90% of cases? (I'm thinking of doing sports & spine, but perhaps I would want to do sports only, or spine only? I'm not sure what I should do....)
To those who're still reading, thank you for hearing my dilemma, and any feedback is greatly appreciated