The problem with these kinds of comparisons is that your experience depends much, much, much more heavily on the residents and attendings you happen to work with than on the actual work itself.
I did very similar inpatient neurology rotations at two different hospitals. Hated the first one, loved the second one. It was all about the team and the environment.
Anyways. For my third year rotations in med school:
Best: Tied between psychiatry and internal medicine. I liked them because
- I got to spend a lot of time thinking through complex and interesting problems
- I was able to function very independently and actually make a real contribution to patient care.
(For both these reasons, I enjoy the subject matter of neuro as well; but I had such a malignant team on the first rotation that I really disliked the experience, and was totally unable to disentangle the people issues from the neurology issues.)
Worst: OB-Gyn. It was really the OB part that sucked, Gyn was less bad.
- Anti-intellectual environment (they're doers, not thinkers - bad match for me)
- B1tchy residents
- Small, boring differentials
- Extended periods of doing nothing on L&D, except waiting to...
- ...watch a fat lady poo
