stohn_jamos
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Hello all,
I'm an allergy/immunology fellow about to finish training, but I'm not sure I made the right specialty choice. I do love A/I, but the amount of pre-charting kills me. Additionally, if you want to practice as a true specialist in this field, you have to be at an academic center. Theres not a lot of resources or patients to do the interesting things (HAE, drug allergy, immunodeficiency) in private practice. I will admit, my hours are awesome (8-5 with no call or weekends) but compensation isn't much more than hospitalist or general IM for private practice and is abysmal for academic. For these reasons, I'm having some regrets with my career choice.
I had a strong interest in anesthesia in med school and was gonna choose anesthesia or internal medicine. I choose medicine due to CRNA's and wanting to avoid surgeons as well as the options for IM sub-specialization. Nowadays, I have a lot of close friends in anesthesia who love it. I can see the value in getting your work done early and leaving it all at the hospital. Additionally, the lack of longitudinal patient relationships, inbox, and clinic is appealing.
I know the grass is always greener. If you guys had to do anesthesia again, would you? What are some cons in the attending day-to-day job that I'm not anticipating (if it's even possible to get into the residency at this stage of the game)? Other procedural IM subspecialties don't really interest me as much (GI/Cards/Pulm), but I know this is the more logical jump.
I'm an allergy/immunology fellow about to finish training, but I'm not sure I made the right specialty choice. I do love A/I, but the amount of pre-charting kills me. Additionally, if you want to practice as a true specialist in this field, you have to be at an academic center. Theres not a lot of resources or patients to do the interesting things (HAE, drug allergy, immunodeficiency) in private practice. I will admit, my hours are awesome (8-5 with no call or weekends) but compensation isn't much more than hospitalist or general IM for private practice and is abysmal for academic. For these reasons, I'm having some regrets with my career choice.
I had a strong interest in anesthesia in med school and was gonna choose anesthesia or internal medicine. I choose medicine due to CRNA's and wanting to avoid surgeons as well as the options for IM sub-specialization. Nowadays, I have a lot of close friends in anesthesia who love it. I can see the value in getting your work done early and leaving it all at the hospital. Additionally, the lack of longitudinal patient relationships, inbox, and clinic is appealing.
I know the grass is always greener. If you guys had to do anesthesia again, would you? What are some cons in the attending day-to-day job that I'm not anticipating (if it's even possible to get into the residency at this stage of the game)? Other procedural IM subspecialties don't really interest me as much (GI/Cards/Pulm), but I know this is the more logical jump.