Is there a difference? For as long as I could remember I wanted to do Pediatrics/Adolescent Medicine. But now as a first year, I've learned that you can do Family medicine and specialize in Adolescent Medicine. Now I don't know what would be best for me because I don't know the difference. I've spoken to Family Medicine people who say they don't see adults which confuses me more. Please help me understand :0)
Adolescent Medicine via Pediatrics or Family Medicine
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eag said:
The adolescent medicine fellowship is the same program whether you come from FP or peds (or internal medicine, or med-peds), except that because of ABP requirements if you come from peds fellowship is 3 years and it is 2 years for the others. I can't imagine a family med doc that doesn't see adults, since they get fairly little peds experience (maybe 5 months at the FP program at my institution). The best advice I can give is to base your decision on what you enjoy during your 3rd year-if you love kids and hate adults, do peds then AM, if you find yourself terrified of babies, but love adults, do IM/AM, if you enjoy outpatient and OB, do FP/AM, and if you like all age groups, want to know everything, and have the brain power to learn it all, do Med/Peds/AM!
And check out www.adolescenthealth.org-they have info on the specialty.
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i have always wanted to do adolescent/college medicine and i love outpatient practice. i don't [paradoxically?] lvoe peds, though. i was going to do IM and just suck it up, but we all know that you rarely see 15-25 year olds at an IM residency. FM was definitely the way to go for me. if you told me i'd do FM when i first started medschool, i'd never believe it, lol...
good luck though! i think the previous poster gave you some great pointers for making the decision. 👍
good luck though! i think the previous poster gave you some great pointers for making the decision. 👍
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Is it true that adolescent medicine fellowships "train you into a lower salary?"
I'm really not one out for just the money (I definitely do want to do peds, for sure), and I really like the idea of working with adolescents, but is it hard to justify to yourself doing even more years of training for even fewer benefits?
Does it make a difference if you don't do a fellowship, just general peds and focus your practice on teenagers?
I'm really not one out for just the money (I definitely do want to do peds, for sure), and I really like the idea of working with adolescents, but is it hard to justify to yourself doing even more years of training for even fewer benefits?
Does it make a difference if you don't do a fellowship, just general peds and focus your practice on teenagers?
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jocg27 said:
fabulous follow-up question. my dad, who is an internist, TOTALLY believes taht a fellowship in adol med is only training you to (1) get a lower salary (2) deal with even MORE paperwork than you're already [will] do
this sucks! i used to think he was exaggerating (he's very good at that), but you know what, i think he's right. i've actaully decided to still focus on 15-15 year olds in my eventual practice, instead of doing a formal fellowship in it. it just isn't worth it, imo, considering i know for a fact that i do not want to teach (ie Prof of Adol Med at __ Institution). if you think you might want to teach, i say go for the fellowship. if you think it'll get you mor epatients, better patients, or higher pay, you're wrong, and just scratch it.
just an opinion 😉
