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Hey all,
I know there's plenty of posts about what you all do and why or why not to go into radiology, but I felt adding a bit of who I am and what I like would help get specific feedback from you all.
I'm an MS3 currently declaring radiology. I have a background from a science/math undergrad and 3 years of post-baccalaureate fulltime research in fMRI. Radiology has been on my radar the entirety of medical school because I'm a visually oriented person who loves problem solving and 3D conceptualization. I have rotated through surgery, neurology, psychiatry, medicine, and now OB. I've enjoyed working with the OR teams but I know I don't want to be a general surgeon or most any subspecialty. I didn't like medicine at all as I felt bored out of my mind. I didn't feel it was intellectually engaging for me. I didn't mind psych and the only part of neurology that I enjoyed was the imaging. I loved the stereotactic imaging used in neurosurgery. I have loved OB because I like the hands on deliveries and C sections and I so feel more emotional investment in helping getting a healthy baby than I have in any other field. I like trying to read CTs and CXRs on my own but I can't tell how happy I'd be doing only that. I enjoy interacting with the health care team a lot (why I like the OR and OB) and enjoy time with patients but am not the person that desires to know the patient's whole life story and all. My advisor says that while radiology is intellectually challenging he says I might be bored in not working with people as much, but most of what I read here seems to say that you all do get to interact with people enough. I changed my elective from radiology to anesthesiology as most people say a rotation in radiology doesn't help rule it in or out. Right now, my short list is probably radiology, anesthesiology (because of the complex physiology and procedures) , and OB which I realize are all very different. I just wanted to get feedback from you all and your experiences and what you were thinking when you were declaring and see if I'm off base with considering radiology. Radiology has the math and science that I miss from my past, has more intellectual reasoning than most other specialties, and has fields like IR where I can get the elements of the OR and procedures to give more diversity to what I could do. Any thoughts? Is there a good way to "try out" radiology to see if it's for me? I realize watching a radiologist is much different than reading the scans. Should I go to the hospital and trying pulling up random CTs and "reading" them for hours and see if that's boring or not? Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks.
I know there's plenty of posts about what you all do and why or why not to go into radiology, but I felt adding a bit of who I am and what I like would help get specific feedback from you all.
I'm an MS3 currently declaring radiology. I have a background from a science/math undergrad and 3 years of post-baccalaureate fulltime research in fMRI. Radiology has been on my radar the entirety of medical school because I'm a visually oriented person who loves problem solving and 3D conceptualization. I have rotated through surgery, neurology, psychiatry, medicine, and now OB. I've enjoyed working with the OR teams but I know I don't want to be a general surgeon or most any subspecialty. I didn't like medicine at all as I felt bored out of my mind. I didn't feel it was intellectually engaging for me. I didn't mind psych and the only part of neurology that I enjoyed was the imaging. I loved the stereotactic imaging used in neurosurgery. I have loved OB because I like the hands on deliveries and C sections and I so feel more emotional investment in helping getting a healthy baby than I have in any other field. I like trying to read CTs and CXRs on my own but I can't tell how happy I'd be doing only that. I enjoy interacting with the health care team a lot (why I like the OR and OB) and enjoy time with patients but am not the person that desires to know the patient's whole life story and all. My advisor says that while radiology is intellectually challenging he says I might be bored in not working with people as much, but most of what I read here seems to say that you all do get to interact with people enough. I changed my elective from radiology to anesthesiology as most people say a rotation in radiology doesn't help rule it in or out. Right now, my short list is probably radiology, anesthesiology (because of the complex physiology and procedures) , and OB which I realize are all very different. I just wanted to get feedback from you all and your experiences and what you were thinking when you were declaring and see if I'm off base with considering radiology. Radiology has the math and science that I miss from my past, has more intellectual reasoning than most other specialties, and has fields like IR where I can get the elements of the OR and procedures to give more diversity to what I could do. Any thoughts? Is there a good way to "try out" radiology to see if it's for me? I realize watching a radiologist is much different than reading the scans. Should I go to the hospital and trying pulling up random CTs and "reading" them for hours and see if that's boring or not? Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks.
