but why don't more med school grads go for anesthesiology? In terms of lifestyle and pay, it seems a lot like Dermatology, yet there's very little competition.
Because a lot of us don’t choose specialty based on lifestyle and pay: We choose what is interesting to us
I remember seeing a specialty decision flowchart a few years back that went like this: Do you want to have a lot of time off? --> Do you like money? --> pick your poison, eyes or skin!
As a subspecialist in Ophthalmology, I tend to agree 😉
Don't these pay the same as primary care? The Anesthesiologist I worked with basically said it's the call + working 55-60 hours that leads to the reported salary the med students flock towards.
Derm is the most competitive by what metric? There are very few spots, so they can be selective and pick only the strongest applicants to match. But from the perspective of # of applicants versus # of residency seats, OBGYN is more competitive than derm.
In house call at that
Psychiatry is on the rise. With its moonlighting capabilities during residency I would say ROAD is now POD.
Yeah OBGYN is nowhere near derm level competitive. A cursory look at any NRMP publication confirms it. So many factors go into what is “competitive”, not just applicants per seat.
I personally quit medicine if I have to do OB...no offense to anyone. Idk if it is the culture or what but they look like they hate their jobs...I had worse experience w OB than gen or surg neurosurg...you name them
You can get a good lifestyle in any field. I've already mentioned in other threads my Neurosurgeon friend who works 40 hours a week. What matters is the average in that field. If there are 1000 physicians, and only 1 works 40 hours a week, that means it's probably not easy to work 40 hours a week.
I wasn’t suggesting OBGYN is overall more competitive than derm, I was just pointing out that there are different ways to evaluate if a specialty is competitive.
