is Anesth. right for me??

[regulator2000]

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I am interested in Anesthesia but unfort. i haven't gotten too much exposure in the field during medical school.
I was wondering if there are any residents in Anest. who were somewhat undecided (b4 residency) if anest. was right for them, and their feeling about the field now.

I do have a strong interst in IM.

 

[2ndyear]

My interest was started in medical school, so this won't be that helpful most likely. I'll tell you what drew me into it: Fast pace, lots of 'knob turning' and gadgets, physiology and pharmacology in real time, no rounding, and cool procedures.

Now that I'm a resident, most of those things have come to be true. It's a field really unlike most other specialties in that your patients are brought to you and you have very little contact before and after your encounter. So you make the 5 mintues preop really count, patient interaction skills are highly important. The scut in anesthesia is different too. I always thought that calling other services, consults, following up on labs, arranging discharges, doing admissions was scut. The medicine part of medicine happens for about an hour each day in most hospital residencies. In anesthesia it's right there in front of you all day long. Now my 'scut' work is setting up my OR and seeing inpatient preops for the next day. Not a bad gig.

I did know one guy during internship who scrambled into a (good) anesthesia spot having never done a rotation. I don't know how, but he did after he failed to match ENT. He's doing fine now.