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[likeaboss]

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I'm applying to anesthesia residency this year... Should I do my subi in surgery or medicine? Does it matter for residency and / or my own benefit?

Thanks everybody.

 

[partydoc]

I'm doing mine in medicine. I figured that would be more helpful because there's a few months of medicine during intern year.

 

[Lurch]

Critical care (surgical or medical). You won't learn much that is relevant to anesthesia from managing surgical or medical floor patients. Do an ICU month, work hard, get a letter from an intensivist. It may sound trite but you will get out of it what you put into it.

 

[seinfeld]

Best would be trauma or Surgical ICU.

 

[Dwindlin]

I'm doing both a SICU Sub-I and a Inpatient medicine sub-I. Unfortunately neither will be soon enough to garner a letter. The Inpatient Sub-I is more to make myself feel better before starting PGY-1 (most likely TY which is mainly medicine floor months).

 

[bcat85]

Critical care (surgical or medical). You won't learn much that is relevant to anesthesia from managing surgical or medical floor patients. Do an ICU month, work hard, get a letter from an intensivist. It may sound trite but you will get out of it what you put into it.

This is what I did and I thought it was a fantastic experience.

 

[Doctor4Life1769]

I did 2 SICU months.

Still had to pick between a medicine and surgical sub-I. I picked medical. Best decision I made.

the surgical sub-I's were relegated to consults, scut, and being in the OR til late. Medical provided me another month to get my medical info down, and a better work schedule. I had to see medical ICU patients as part of this, as well. So, I got a little of that, too.

 

[KCBarbarossa]

I'm applying to anesthesia residency this year... Should I do my subi in surgery or medicine? Does it matter for residency and / or my own benefit?

Thanks everybody.

I did mine in medicine, purposefully. Not sure it mattered one way or another and I'm sure it's institution specific. The only "bad" part I could see about a surgical sub-I is that depending on the institution you could just end up being scutted out. This is probably less likely in a more "controlled' medicine setting....

A busy medicine service still requires a work up and game plan, but a busy surgical service CAN mean mindless note writing and maybe not being included in real management of patients on the floor (versus in the OR which I wouldn't even prioritize as you're not going to become a surgeon in a month). Again, I'm sure this is service and institution specific, however so please take with a grain of salt.

 

[likeaboss]

So seems like MICU > SICU....

Thanks for the advice everyone ... This is very helpful....