Help me find my calling!!

[thinktank]

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Hi all!

I am a R2 at a large university program. It is time for me to apply for fellowship (kind of near the deadline here). Unfortunately, I do not have the luxury of waiting till my 3rd year or later to apply. I am a cdn citizen doing my residency on a J-visa. If I don't apply now, I will either head back north or get a waiver. I am from a program where obtaining any fellowships are possible: decent chance in Cards/GI. Other subspecialties are easily obtainable. I am not interested in Primary care/ GI/ Allergy/ Endo/ Pulm&CC/Rheum.

I was so sure of cards until being on call alone Q3 in the CCU (never done a Cards elective rotation before). I feel I will miss out on family life if I stay on my current path (have you guys seen the movie "Just Like Heaven"...friends & family told me on multiple occasions that I am just like 'Reese' in that movie).
Would like to have time for family, have and take care of my own children one day. I love medicine to death, but it is not my life. I do want to pay the bills, support my parents/sibs, help pay off SO's student loans, etc. My SO is a senior res who is going into cards. I am thinking of Renal/Hem-Onc/Hospitalist at this point in time, I want to have spend time with my lovely SO, visit my parents (my parents were in a major MVA last week, I could not even fly out to visit them 🙁), travel, bake something, make lovely dinners, have time to really clean up/decorate my house, read non-medical books, sleep enough, organize swanky house parties, etc.

Any ideas of 'lifestyle' medicine subspecialties??

 

[Geri_Gal]

Your SO is going into cards. Assuming that this is the person that you decide to spend the rest of your life with/raise a family/etc, you will be financially well off. Lifestyle is easier for office-based practices or hospitalist work...or anything where you don't have to take a lot of call. Renal is not a lifestyle subspecialty in most cases. Hem/onc is probably the better of the two.

If I were you, I'd marry the cardiologist, hospitalize for a few years and pay off that debt, throw swanky parties, visit family and friends, then have babies and work part-time or not at all! 🙂

 

[orientedtoself]

your lifestyle is what you make of it once you're done with training. if you want to work part time, find a practice that will allow you to work part time. that being said, if you go into cards you will need to see acute mi's and if you go into gi you will have to see gi bleeders in the middle of the night. think of the subspecialties you never see in the hospital. allergy- i have seen an allergy fellow once when he desensitized a patient to zosyn. i have seen cards and gi fellows countless time in the middle of the night. allergy is the derm of medicine. but go into what you want to do for the next 30 years.

 

[thinktank]

Thank's.

How is Hem/onc's lifestyle??