Most tech-savvy speciality in the future?

[ravupadh]

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I was wondering what residency will really utilize advanced technology especially as the field of computers grows. I know radiology is obviously very technology-oriented, but will it be overtaken perhaps by Medical Genetics because of the advancements in molecular biology?

 

[Poetic Silence]

Interventional radiology and pulmonology/critical care medicine. Anesthesiology may as well, especially cardiac anesthesiology.

 

[235788]

rad onc

 

[Shalashaska]

Cybernetic Plastic Deconstructive Reconstructive Surgery:

 

[CodeBlu]

Cybernetic Plastic Deconstructive Reconstructive Surgery:

She is so sexy!

 

[Verum]

Not sure if this is a specialty or not but minimally invasive surgery seems on the rise.

 

[Narmerguy]

rad onc

+1

 

[JESSFALLING]

If this discussion includes biotechnology, then my vote is for medical oncology. I think that rad onc is eventually going to lose out to biological/molecular/genetic-based therapies.

 

[loveoforganic]

+1

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[Plue00]

From what my uncle says, radiology is going to keep booming with technology (he's a radiologist). I'd also have to say oncology and maybe some surgeries.

 

[cowme]

Not really sure what you are asking. What specialty will you use the most technology on a day to day basis? Radiology. No question. You spend all day using technology for everything.

Urology/ENT is pretty tech heavy too, especially with robotics/lasers

Rad Onc is pretty tech savvy as a field, but the docs themselves don't really do much other than draw out structures on a ct scan. In fact, their day to day lives are far closer to general outpatient medicine than anything else

Medical Genetics as a FIELD has technology, but as a physician you are doing nothing but interpreting test results and advising families. Probably one of the least tech fields there are

 

[neo87]

Not really sure what you are asking. What specialty will you use the most technology on a day to day basis? Radiology. No question. You spend all day using technology for everything.

Urology/ENT is pretty tech heavy too, especially with robotics/lasers

Rad Onc is pretty tech savvy as a field, but the docs themselves don't really do much other than draw out structures on a ct scan. In fact, their day to day lives are far closer to general outpatient medicine than anything else

Medical Genetics as a FIELD has technology, but as a physician you are doing nothing but interpreting test results and advising families. Probably one of the least tech fields there are

Gotta disagree with you about rad onc. Like radiology, advances in the field over the last 20-30 years have married it to high tech. I have noticed that younger ( <50 yo) attendings are much more interested in these advances than the older ones (like a lot of fields). However, at every radonc program I rotated at, they were doing crazy high tech stuff that I still don't understand.

Saying that "the docs themselves don't really do much other than draw out structures on a ct scan" is like saying that radiologists "dont do much but gawk at structures on a CT scan." 🙂