Hospitalist DO

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SMC123

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Are hospitalists/PMR/sports medicine rare as a DO speciality? How does a hospitalist really differ from IM doctor working in a hospital?
 
DOs and MDs do the same things. However, if a DO wishes to be a hospitalist, they have to do it as a volunteer candy-striper.
 
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And in my experience, there's no such thing as luck.


Sorry, I just had to...

Du weisst gar nichts worum Du sprichts!!! (und weiter, wem Du beruhst!! Die Kraft is sehr stark mit dem Herrn Kanobi) 😀






*I may have butchered the german language...its been a while:laugh:
 
Hospitalists just practice a certain way. Most of them are internal medicine docs. It's not a separate residency or anything, and internal medicine is not hard to match into at all.
 
Du weisst gar nichts worum Du sprichts!!! (und weiter, wem Du beruhst!! Die Kraft is sehr stark mit dem Herrn Kanobi) 😀






*I may have butchered the german language...its been a while:laugh:

I've always imagined Jabba the Hut as a German speaker and it made things 100x funnier.
 
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And in my experience, there's no such thing as luck.


Sorry, I just had to...
Your insight serves you well. Bury your feelings deep down, NurWollen. They do you credit, but they could be made to serve the Emperor's of allopathic medicine.
 
There are plenty of DO hospitalists. I will be another in one year when I am done with residency.

There are also plenty of DOs in sports med and PM&R. PM&R actually seems rather popular these days - low key, decent pay, good hours. Just have to get through your prelim year (which can be brutal depending on where you go).

Hospitalists are physicians that do nothing but take care of hospitalized patients. They can be IM, FM, or IM/Ped. Most FM residencies are clinic heavy; many IM are hospital heavy. There are exceptions to both of course with hospital heavy FM and clinic heavy IM. In some programs there are IM tracks you can take that are more outpatient based, women's health based, and hospital based.