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[Dr panda]

Get into medical school first... (also finish it and complete residency)

 

[CyrilFiggis]

You have a 30,000 ft level of one specialty. Ask any of the 20,000 4th years who are picking specialties right now and a majority of them probably started med school wanting to do something else. At various points during my post-bacc and pre-clinical years I would have been an OB, surgeon or urologist and now I'm going into EM. I don't want to minimize your enthusiasm. Use it as motivation, but just realize there's a great big world of medicine you have yet to really interact with in a meaningful way.

 

[Moko]

I would recommend remaining open-minded and not trying to pigeonhole yourself into a very subspecialized field of medicine. Recognize that you had your heart "set" on one subspecialty, but are now considering a totally different subspecialty after reading just a chapter in a book. Your goals will likely change multiple times between now and 4th year of medical school, and this isn't a bad thing. If asked during an interview, I would recommend simply saying that you're leaning towards Pediatrics because you like working with kids or something. Being too specific without appropriate justification can hurt applicants.

 

[PA_dud3]

When everyone sees a specialty in the Pre-Med Forums:



(Also echo advice from above, stay open minded)

 

[babybrains]

There's no harm in having specialty interests now, but I agree to stay open minded. I was interested in child neuro prior to med school and ultimately wound up matching in the field, but I also know people who changed their mind partway through med school.

That being said... I suppose you *could* triple-board in peds, peds neuro, and peds cards, but I don't think it'd be a "neurocardiology" subspecialty as much as it'd open up the potential to do some of each if you can maintain practices in both fields simultaneously. I'd think you could do peds cards after peds neuro if you took the peds boards (most peds neuro residents don't, since oftentimes we're not interested in practicing gen peds), but admittedly I've never been interested in peds cards and have never looked up the requirements to apply. It's possible there are stipulations about needing to do a full 3 years of peds training prior to the fellowship.

It'd be a long pathway, though (5 years neuro + 3 years cards), and in my experience, the personalities in the two fields are very different. You'll probably find one that fits you better than the other, or you'll find another specialty entirely.

 

[Engrailed]

When everyone sees a specialty in the Pre-Med Forums:


(Also echo advice from above, stay open minded)

Hahahahahahahahaahahaha (endlessly. And deceased)

I would recommend remaining open-minded and not trying to pigeonhole yourself into a very subspecialized field of medicine. Recognize that you had your heart "set" on one subspecialty, but are now considering a totally different subspecialty after reading just a chapter in a book. Your goals will likely change multiple times between now and 4th year of medical school, and this isn't a bad thing. If asked during an interview, I would recommend simply saying that you're leaning towards Pediatrics because you like working with kids or something. Being too specific without appropriate justification can hurt applicants.