Don't base your career decision on your perceived competitiveness for a given specialty. I think this especially applies to your situation, since the difference in competitiveness between ER and anesthesia is relatively small. I think the former is more competitive than the later, but the gap has closed significantly in the past several years.anicha06 said:Hi all,
I'm a MS4 at UCSF, got a 222 on my boards and no honors in 3rd yr.
I'm trying to decide between Gas and ER but don't know if I'm comp in either.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
DreamMachine said:Transfer to a better medical school or get a LOR from Dr. Miller.
anicha06 said:Hi all,
I'm a MS4 at UCSF, got a 222 on my boards and no honors in 3rd yr.
I'm trying to decide between Gas and ER but don't know if I'm comp in either.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
Laryngospasm said:No offense, but anesthesiology and ER are about as different as you get, if you really think that these two are similar, you better do a little more investigating.
Trisomy13 said:GasEmDee pointed out some valid similarities, and it's not the first time I've heard someone consider EM vs. Gas for those reasons. I even considered EM briefly for some of the reasons listed, before remembering how much I dislike taking an H&P from your typical EM patient. And everything else about the typical EM patient. shudder
nolagas said:I've heard a lot of mention of family obligations, but I don't follow you. I could see you needing to stay in the bay area for family obligations, but how can you just need to stay in california? If you're obligations are in SF, then you'll be no more available in San Diego than you would be in Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake, Phoenix, etc. By 'I need to stay in Cali due to family obligations' do you mean that you just want to stay there? It doesn't add up.
Laryngospasm said:Sorry but the reality is that these are two very different fields, similarities can be drawn between every two specialties. The work environment is different, the hours you work are totally different the way you take care of your patients is totally different. Im sorry, but the only people who consider these two things similar are medical students who havent done either. Figure out what you want, and are going into, and go for it.
Nor Cal is ideal but if that's not possible than yes anything within a 1hr flight would worknolagas said:I've heard a lot of mention of family obligations, but I don't follow you. I could see you needing to stay in the bay area for family obligations, but how can you just need to stay in california? If you're obligations are in SF, then you'll be no more available in San Diego than you would be in Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake, Phoenix, etc. By 'I need to stay in Cali due to family obligations' do you mean that you just want to stay there? It doesn't add up.
Laryngospasm said:Sorry but the reality is that these are two very different fields, similarities can be drawn between every two specialties. The work environment is different, the hours you work are totally different the way you take care of your patients is totally different. Im sorry, but the only people who consider these two things similar are medical students who havent done either. Figure out what you want, and are going into, and go for it.
Because many medical students have a distorted idea about what a specialty entails, and many just choose based on prestige, perceived "easyness", and income. Its one of the bigest failures of our medical system, that students have such a hard time figuring out what a field is actually like. Instead of choosing based on what they would fit into, like, etc..they say ooooh, if I do that I could work forty hours a week and make 250K. Just trying to help, I think judging by your responses you would be an excellent fit in an ER career.anicha06 said:Why are you guy discussing if they're similar or not... that wasn't my question.
Thanks to those who actually gave some useful info.