Med-Peds needs its own forum

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There are quite a number of unrepresented specialties, and this is one of them. I was wondering if someone who has gone through med peds in California can give me some tips on which program they liked. Is there one that stands out? Any information would help.

Thanks!

 

[Winged Scapula]

There are quite a number of unrepresented specialties, and this is one of them. I was wondering if someone who has gone through med peds in California can give me some tips on which program they liked. Is there one that stands out? Any information would help.

Thanks!

I can't address your question about med-peds specifically, but you are right: there are lots of unrepresented specialties.

The reason is largely two-fold:

1) if there isn't enough traffic in a certain specialty, it doesn't necessarily warrant its own forum. Med-Peds is an example of this. Unless others can point out the threads, I am not aware of a deluge of Med-Peds threads here. We have given other specialties their own forums due to lots of requests only to see them not be active - Urology comes to mind.

2) a new forum really needs a Moderator, or at least an Advisor with some experience in the field. Again, I am not aware of a large number of SDN users with such.

That doesn't mean that this won't change...SDN is obviously growing (the largest on-line medical community!) and there may be a call for it in the future.

Hope this helps.

 

[mshheaddoc]

I know med-peds is discussed sometimes in the peds forum so I would check over there. There are a few people that matched med-peds over there this year.

 

[Pox in a box]

So why is there a urology forum and why isn't there a med-peds forum? Also, there must have been quite a stir to get the PMR Journal Club rolling. It's taking me days to go through all the rehab threads. 🙂

 

[Tired]

So why is there a urology forum and why isn't there a med-peds forum? Also, there must have been quite a stir to get the PMR Journal Club rolling. It's taking me days to go through all the rehab threads. 🙂

Don't forget the Audiology forum . . . 😀

But in all fairness, Med-Peds actually has two forums. One is called "Internal Medicine", the other is called "Pediatrics".

 

[Winged Scapula]

So why is there a urology forum and why isn't there a med-peds forum? Also, there must have been quite a stir to get the PMR Journal Club rolling. It's taking me days to go through all the rehab threads. 🙂

Well, as I noted above, perhaps some mistakes were made in selecting certain forums. In the case of Urology, several users called for it, we had a willing Mod (who has since disappeared) and it seemed to make sense. Simillar things happened with other specialties.

Since the number of people going into Med-Peds is fairly small and there hasn't been a large outcry of others asking for a forum, seems like we should maintain status quo...especially since the topic can be managed in the IM and Peds forums.

 

[daria]

I'd just like to toss in my vote for a Med-Peds forum. Jolly hypocritical of me as I'm an infrequent SDN-er for the past couple of years and not willing to moderate, at least not during intern year. Of course you can search and post to the Medicine and Pediatrics forums separately, which is what I ended up doing (more searching than posting - I guess that also makes me one of those snots who takes but doesn't give back), but it is cumbersome.

Yes, we are Medicine, and we are also fully Peds, but there are numerous issues related to program implementation and the integration of the 2 specialties that are Med-Peds specific.

Thanks,

Daria
Temple Med '07 + incoming HUP/CHOP Med/Peds intern

 

[deleted87716]

Like the others, I think a med-peds forum would get minimal traffic. If anything, maybe SDN could open some sort of "Combined Residency" forum for everyone interested in dual residency training, not just med-peds. Otherwise, one could argue that we should have a different forum for every possible type of combined training program, which just seems silly.

It also might be time to move this thread to the "Site Suggestions" forum.

 

[Winged Scapula]

It also might be time to move this thread to the "Site Suggestions" forum.

Good idea, but since the OP's question about different programs, etc. hasn't been answered yet ("proof" of the little traffic this topic gets 😉 ), prolly should leave it here until its answered (somewhat) and then move it over.

 

[deleted87716]

Well, to be fair, there are a couple of two-year-old revived threads in the peds forum now. Maybe we can see how those do.

 

[Pox in a box]

To be fair, categorical medicine doesn't care about peds and categorical peds could care less about medicine. If you have other low-traffic/posting categories (i.e. urology), why not add another one and give them a forum. Of course they will continue to post in the Internal medicine and the Pediatrics forums...where else is there to post if you are a Med-Peds person? It really isn't as unpopular as you think. There are quite a few residency spots for Med-Peds, probably more than a lot of the other selective/uber-competitive specialties.

 

[Winged Scapula]

To be fair, categorical medicine doesn't care about peds and categorical peds could care less about medicine. If you have other low-traffic/posting categories (i.e. urology), why not add another one and give them a forum. Of course they will continue to post in the Internal medicine and the Pediatrics forums...where else is there to post if you are a Med-Peds person? It really isn't as unpopular as you think. There are quite a few residency spots for Med-Peds, probably more than a lot of the other selective/uber-competitive specialties.

I think I was rather clear in my posts above:

Its not that Med-Peds is unpopular as a specialty, but there aren't enough posts in the IM and Peds forums to warrant a separate forum for Med-Peds.

We perhaps made a mistake adding too many forums, like Urology, with little traffic. If we added a forum for every specialty, SDN would be fractured and it doesn't make sense to add forums which we can't support with Moderators.

As an aside: The number of positions in a specialty does not = popularity. Integrated Plastics has relatively few positions each year, but the amount of interest in the field, as evidenced by the number of applications each program gets and the number of questions we get here about it.

 

[Pox in a box]

I think I was rather clear in my posts above:

Its not that Med-Peds is unpopular as a specialty, but there aren't enough posts in the IM and Peds forums to warrant a separate forum for Med-Peds.

We perhaps made a mistake adding too many forums, like Urology, with little traffic. If we added a forum for every specialty, SDN would be fractured and it doesn't make sense to add forums which we can't support with Moderators.

As an aside: The number of positions in a specialty does not = popularity. Integrated Plastics has relatively few positions each year, but the amount of interest in the field, as evidenced by the number of applications each program gets and the number of questions we get here about it.

The point is that Med-Peds distracts people only interested in straight medicine or straight peds if there are MED-PEDS discussions within their respective forums. One could argue it's already fractured...I hate scrolling to the bottom of the list just to read the finance forums. I speculate there are not very many med-peds posts because people don't know where to post med-peds topics anyway. That would be like me posting an ortho question in a general surgery forum...makes sense, sorta, but not really.

 

[deleted87716]

Its not that Med-Peds is unpopular as a specialty, but there aren't enough posts in the IM and Peds forums to warrant a separate forum for Med-Peds.

The biggest problem I see with a med-peds forum is that med-peds really isn't a specialty. It's a type of combined-residency program.

Perhaps we could put a med-peds subforum in the peds forum, where we already have a moderator. I think it would get lost among all the other subspecialty forums in IM.

 

[oldbearprofessor]

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=201062

Please see my post from yesterday afternoon. I would be glad to start with a new thread and make it a sticky. This thread could have links to the other med/peds threads and could be linked to the medicine forum as well. If the traffic volume warrants, then we could consider a forum for med/peds.

As I indicated and has been suggested here, to the very best of my knowledge, there is no med/peds attending currently posting on SDN. If you could recruit such a person for this thread or even for a "mentor" in the mentor forum, it would be great.

 

[deleted87716]

I would be glad to start with a new thread and make it a sticky. This thread could have links to the other med/peds threads and could be linked to the medicine forum as well. If the traffic volume warrants, then we could consider a forum for med/peds.

That sounds like a good idea to me.

 

[group_theory]

As I indicated and has been suggested here, to the very best of my knowledge, there is no med/peds attending currently posting on SDN. If you could recruit such a person for this thread or even for a "mentor" in the mentor forum, it would be great.

I don't think there is enough traffic to warrant a seperate med-peds forum. However, perhaps a forum for "combined program" would be a good idea, so that questions related to combine programs (like IM/EM, IM/FM, IM/Derm, etc) can be addressed there (still, don't know how high a traffic that will generate)

I think forncroj, who has identified himself on SDN in the past as a program director for med-peds in the midwest, have posted occasionally. I don't have any contacts with him or even know what program he is involved in, but he has answered questions in the past about med-peds. He might be interested in the Mentors forum if he still checks on SDN

 

[Winged Scapula]

I think either idea would work: having it as a sub-forum under Peds or making a forum for combined residencies.

I'll post a thread in the Mod forum and see what the group consensus is there and if there are preferences here, please post them (ie, subforum or forum for Combined residencies).

 

[Pox in a box]

It's not peds and it's not medicine...it's got elements of each but it's definitely not under one umbrella...you can't just put it under peds or under medicine. Just my final $.02. It really belongs on it's own. Seriously...even if it doesn't get much fanfare.

 

[DrMom]

I have added a new combined residencies forum. It is located right after the internship forum and before all of the separate specialties. 🙂