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[eri]

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Hi

So I'm a 3rd year and have no idea what I want to specialize in. All medicine seems to be about the same to me. So about me. I like patients but don't love them but I can't stare at a monitor all day either. Money and prestige are very important. Id like a mix of a good deal of thought and some procedures. I like medical puzzle and acute conditions, hospital based practice, and relatively rapid results. I got a 262 on step 1.

Any help would be awesome.

 

[officedepot]

cardiology (you can get a very good IM residency giving you a great chance at this fellowship) or neurosurgery

both of these have acute conditions, patients, procedures, and lots of hospital work (well with cards you could do outpt if you wanted).

 

[cowme]

I will add GI (and less so pulm) to the above.

Also any surgery field if that floats your boat.

 

[Ride Big Sky]

Ir?

 

[username456789]

Derm?

Cards/GI?

Maybe ENT or Ophtho

 

[MKA55]

I'd add ortho to the list. Dunno about it having many medical puzzles, but it seems to fit most of the other parameters you've listed, and with that step I score i don't see it being a problem matching into it (provided you've got the other usual stuff too)

I'd also agree with whoever suggested neurosurgery. That also fits your parameters, prob even better than ortho.

 

[JustCallMeDoc]

Try taking this 10 min test if you haven't already. It might help show you some of the specialties you are interested in.

http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/specialties/

 

[TibFib]

Cardiology subspecialty or Neuro.

 

[2012mdc]

Hi

So I'm a 3rd year and have no idea what I want to specialize in. All medicine seems to be about the same to me. So about me. I like patients but don't love them but I can't stare at a monitor all day either. Money and prestige are very important. Id like a mix of a good deal of thought and some procedures. I like medical puzzle and acute conditions, hospital based practice, and relatively rapid results. I got a 262 on step 1.

Any help would be awesome.

IR and Interventional Cardio came to mind.

 

[badasshairday]

anesthesiology

 

[JimmyChitwood]

Cards is sweet but if you don't like staring at monitors all day don't do EP...ablations are all the rage right now and that's basically 4-5 hours straight of staring at squiggly lines. Of course the way the field is growing they might be obsolete by then. Those squiggly lines do translate into stacks of green, though. Lots of stacks.

 

[2012mdc]

Hi

So I'm a 3rd year and have no idea what I want to specialize in. All medicine seems to be about the same to me. So about me. I like patients but don't love them but I can't stare at a monitor all day either. Money and prestige are very important. Id like a mix of a good deal of thought and some procedures. I like medical puzzle and acute conditions, hospital based practice, and relatively rapid results. I got a 262 on step 1.

Any help would be awesome.

And do you mean prestige with other doctors or prestige in the general community?

 

[Radonkulous]

And do you mean prestige with other doctors or prestige in the general community?

cuz IR definitely has no prestige in the general community.

 

[2012mdc]

cuz IR definitely has no prestige in the general community.

Yeah, a lot of people don't even know what they do.

 

[cowme]

Yeah, a lot of people don't even know what they do.

Hell, I'm going into rads and I don't even know what they do at a given hospital, since it can range from: anything and everything, 24/7 to: picc service, Monday thru friday between 9-5, depending on the hospital.