Hate Rounding, hate surgery, what should I do?

[cool c]

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I am not sure if this is the right place to be putting this thread, but i'll give this a shot. I am a MS4 applying for residency soon, and I don't know what I am gonna do yet. Basically, I hate rounding, I hate surgery, and would still like some patient contact, what specialties come to mind? I can only think of EMed.

 

[dingozlife]

EMED comes to mind, perhaps Anesthesia, some patient interaction, no rounding, but in the OR. Pathology, transfusion medicine. Even Family Practice fits the criteria. If you mean no rounding/surgery for residency training then maybe path.

 

[LuckyBambooGirl]

Remember that once you are finished with residency, as long as you don't work for a teaching hospital, rounding will be much less painful! When you are an attending, you will not spend three hours with your team discussing little things like which antibiotic to choose, you will know what to do and just do it!

 

[MrBurns10]

I hate rounding and hate surgery...my answer was radiology. You can have patient contact in rads, depending on what you do, and I'm not just referring to IR. I guess the next question to ask yourself would be if you like clinical management of patients. If you don't, then either rads or pathology would be good. If you do, then EM (as you mentioned) would probably be better, as would anesthesia.

 

[vtucci]

Hate surgery- welcome to the club. I did not enjoy it either as it made me physicially ill to be under the lights, scrubbed in with layers of clothes and not eating for stretches at a time.

Rounds on other services depend largely on the attending. Believe it or not some attendings can make 4 hour rounds really worthwhile while others make you want to shoot yourself after 10 minutes.

"Rounds" in EM can be walking rounds or check out but are definitely not as long as IM or other specialties. EM is not a good default because you don't like rounds and hate surgery. It is more involved than that and often attracts a certain kind of person. Have you done a clerkship in EM yet? Was it part of your 3rd year curriculum.

Other possibilities- pathology, radiology, ophthalmology, anesthesia, dermatology, rad-onc, neurology, family medicine, peds. We did not tend to have horribly long rounds on psych but this is probably variable.

You should check out Iserson's Guide to Getting A residency and look at the descriptions for the disciplines.