Smurfette
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I think it would be too long to tag everyone so I’ll just try to summate:
It took me a really long time to figure out if it was just my program I disliked or peds in general. I’ve concluded it’s both. For my program it is indeed quite malignant. Rumors daily. Admin who believe rumors and then discipline residents based solely on the rumors, etc. I could really go on for days but I don’t see the point. All I know is that the scheme is investigating us due to how malignant it is and our acgme surveys so there’s that…
As far peds in general: I do love children and I really enjoy being goofy with them. But that’s where the buck stops as far as my enjoyment of the job. Rounding is like dying by a million paper cuts, notes hell followed by more notes hell (useless notes mind you). I don’t do anything. Literally what do we do????? Intervention is next to nothing. It’s mostly social work. I’m convinced peds residency doesn’t need to be 3 years long. I miss doing procedures. So much. I love working with my hands (I was torn between peds and anesthesia in med school). Figured I’d go into icu but I think maybe I just had a good? Med school experience but the amount of procedures is not nearly as often as I expected or want. To really cram home this point I asked my wife if she’s noticed I’m ever happy about work. And she, a non-medicine person, said, “I’ve only seen you happy after you got to do a procedure.”
I don’t really have a peds “personality” and the constant passive aggressive bull**** runs me up a tree (I think I have a more cut and dry what you see is what you get type of personality). Sure people can say to focus on the work and not the people but stereotypes exist for a reason and I cannot see myself working with such a group for my professional career. I desire the environment with an undying passion. Even a post here is what I would call passive aggressive, unhelpful, and, imo, the typical abusive response seen often in a pediatric residency. Just ain’t for me.
I like the OR, resus, and procedures of nicu but the rounding was a HARD stop and small set of diseases seems like it would get boring
I liked the acuity of PICU but don’t enjoy the bread and butter of asthma. Also rounding.
Considered PEM but it basically seems like urgent care which is ok but I don’t want to waste 3 more years to do what I consider to be urgent care….
At this point I don’t really know what to do…. I think anesthesia might be a good fit but worried about doing the match all over and really what is diff about my app compared to being a med student? It would be a finished residency and an obligated residency research project. Maybe that will matter to PDs? Unsure. Also don’t know if I could stomach 4.5 more years of residency and then 5.5 total possibly (peds anes?).
But besides that idea at a loss. Really a huge loss.
The situation just makes me sad tbh. Perhaps it’s my own fault for being naive about how medicine really is. Dunno
I know a lot of people who switched to anesthesia from various fields, so I think PDs would be open to your situation.
That being said, what about something like allergy, where you can ultimately treat both kids and adults once you're in practice and not have any inpatient rounding to do? It would mix things up for you as far as patient variety and may be a shorter path to finishing training. Or maybe something like peds PMR and helping kids with prosthetics and other unique needs? I would think you'd get credit for your peds training but admittedly know very little about this field. Just throwing out some options where your peds training would be useful.