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Do you have elective rotations? We had 4 weeks you could split up until 2, 2-week blocks. Plenty of friends thought about plastics or gen surg then did it for two weeks and hated it.
Do that, if you're still equivocal, plastics requires research the other two do not. Would you consider a research year to improve your application?
Are you male or female? Its getting harder for male OB docs in big cities to have a full pt load.
Why would you do gen surg vs. integrated plastics if you could?
Could you go the rest of your life never delivering another baby?
You really have to reflect on what makes each specialty unique to you, what your priorities are, both professionally and personally, and how those align.
Do that, if you're still equivocal, plastics requires research the other two do not. Would you consider a research year to improve your application?
Are you male or female? Its getting harder for male OB docs in big cities to have a full pt load.
Why would you do gen surg vs. integrated plastics if you could?
Could you go the rest of your life never delivering another baby?
You really have to reflect on what makes each specialty unique to you, what your priorities are, both professionally and personally, and how those align.
Lol. Source?
Agree that you should do some electives in each if possible. I would also evaluate if you would be happy doing general OB/GYN if you didn't match MFM fellowship. Banking on a fellowship is not an ideal way to enter a residency.
This has not been my experience shadowing multiple male OB’s in both major west coast (where I’m from) and east coast (where I go to med school) cities. They said being male was a non-issue and they had (very) full schedules.
Not sure where you’re getting that info from.
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Most people from my school do fellowships (80%) whether it's ob gyn, internal medicine, or gen surg. I don't see why it wouldn't be fruitful to want to do a fellowship/?
I feel like fellowships are normal goals lol a lot of people do them and match in them.
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I was almost seduced over to Optho from on/gyn, but I am back on track. OB/Gyn has a great population. You will see a very diverse age group, have healthier patients than in IM or gen surgery overall. I think most of those patients are more compliant. You may find that even gen ob/gyn fits the variety, but specialization is possible. There is important work to be done in this field.
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Reading comprehension...
Dont bank on a fellowship =/= don't have a goal of doing a fellowship.
Don't go into a specialty unless you know you are going to be fine with a career as a generalist in that specialty. MFM isn't the most comepetitive fellowship but every year ~15+% of people applying don't get accepted. The same would be true of things like interventional cardiology and internal medicine. Or a plastics fellowship from general surgery. Fellowships are great goals to have just make sure that you like the specialty you are going into should you end up a generalist.
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n=maybe 10?
I was interested in OB and talked to as many male OB docs as I could find over like a 6 month period. Pretty much everyone one in private practice said don't do it, the academic folks were happier and had a much easier time getting clients, but that was not the case of people of the non-academics I talked to.
*shrug*
Has not been my experience, but you may be in a very culturally different part of the country.
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Yea, the male OB's I know basically had to move out to the burbs (where the demand was higher) to have a super successful private practice and they were always booked because they had been in the area for at least a decade.
Not saying it's not possible to be successful as a male in a major city but many women still maintain that they'd rather be seen by a woman. But who knows, maybe that will change with how progressive each successive generation becomes.