Career change?

[AnonymMD]

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I have just completed residency in another highly competitive field and been in practice now for about a year. Much to my disappointment, the concerns of being in the wrong field that I had throughout most of my residency have been confirmed in this year of practice. I had previously been interested in dermatology, but decided to pursue a different career path in another highly competitive field. Now that I've come to the realization that this is NOT where I should be, is it too late to try to make a specialty change into dermatology? How do I begin this path of transition? Any advice from those who have been in this situation or know someone who has, would be greatly appreciated. You can post it or email me privately.

With much appreciation,

AnonymMD

 

[Long Dong]

I can tell you about the people I've encountered. At my program a few attendings or residents have completed IM or peds. They seemed to have completed their training at the same institution so the department already knew them. My program is a larger program so funding is not that much of an issue. When I applied there was this pgy3 ent resident I meet at a few interviews, they told me they where getting interviews at larger more research orientated programs.

You might want to ask faculty about this at DIGA: http://www.derminterest.org/phpbb3/viewforum.php?f=8&sid=46bd14c1568dd13f3a68fe3bf8e943d8

Here are some old thread from the dermboard about people switching:

http://dermatology.yuku.com/topic/5423/t/emergency-medicine-to-Dermatology.html

http://dermatology.yuku.com/reply/29763/t/Any-possibilities.html#reply-29763

You can use the search function on dermboard and maybe can find some more threads if you dig deeper. I just searched for a few. It does appear that when people switch into derm some time spent doing derm research might be in order if you already don't have connections to a program or in derm. Hope that helps.

 

[asmallchild]

out of curiousity, what field are you currently in?