Outpatient specialty that isn't primary care?

[tatabox80]

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Hi guys,
I am finding out that I am enjoying outpatient clinic very much, but I find that sometimes primary care can be a little boring. Do you guys know of any other specialties that are outpatient based, but not primary care? Thanks.

 

[DrBowtie]

Derm

 

[AJM]

Hi guys,
I am finding out that I am enjoying outpatient clinic very much, but I find that sometimes primary care can be a little boring. Do you guys know of any other specialties that are outpatient based, but not primary care? Thanks.

derm, ophtho, cards, pulmonary, GI, endocrine, rheumatology, renal, oncology, allergy, rad onc. Even urology and ENT spend a lot of time doing outpatient clinics.

You don't have to do primary care to do outpatient medicine.... almost every subspecialty (including surgical subspecialties) spends a significant amount of time in outpatient care.

 

[lvspro]

Hi guys,
I am finding out that I am enjoying outpatient clinic very much, but I find that sometimes primary care can be a little boring. Do you guys know of any other specialties that are outpatient based, but not primary care? Thanks.

Surprised it hasn't been mentioned, but PM&R. I know you need to go the the hospital for new pt referrals, but most of your work is OP. Pretty cool field IMHO.

 

[radonc]

radiation oncology is sweet---you get to actually spend time with patients (up to 1 hour for new consults), plus you 'see' patients every day since they come in for treatment. you dont diagnose cancer (very hard emotionally) but you treat cancer patients nonetheless. its a very gratifying field. lots of technology, radiology, physics, and biology.

 

[Casey James]

If heard that forensic psychiatry is interesting. Apparantly, all you do is show up at crime scenes as soon as the cops get the call. A guy on my current elective did it and has lot's of cool war stories to tell about it. It's definately an outpatient sort of thing.

 

[Casey James]

I've heard that forensic psychiatry is interesting. Apparantly, all you do is show up at crime scenes as soon as the cops get called. Generally is all serious crimes like homocide and such. A guy on my current elective did it and has lot's of cool war stories to tell about it. It's definately an outpatient sort of thing.

 

[Casey James]

I've heard that forensic psychiatry is interesting. Apparantly, all you do is show up at crime scenes as soon as the cops get called. Generally it's all serious crimes like homocide and such. A guy on my current elective did it and has lot's of cool war stories to tell about it. It's definately an outpatient sort of thing.

 

[tiredmom]

Rheumatology is a good field - nearly all outpatient, not many emergencies, rarely get woke up during the night, and you get to know your patients over a long period of time. Very thought intensive, some procedures (joint injections mainly), no surgery, great hours... not highly paid.

 

[docB]

I've heard that forensic psychiatry is interesting. Apparantly, all you do is show up at crime scenes as soon as the cops get called. Generally it's all serious crimes like homocide and such. A guy on my current elective did it and has lot's of cool war stories to tell about it. It's definately an outpatient sort of thing.

Not that forensic psych isn't cool but I get the impression that the OP is looking for clinic work, not just something outside the hospital. For someone who wants the regularity of clinic work getting paged to crime scenes at 2 am is probably not going to work. I also suppose that while everyone is right that surgical specialties like OB/GYN and Uro do put in lots of clinic time they also put in lots of OR time. Cards, GI, Pulm have to see too many emergent and hospital consults to fit. I'd say that if you are looking for specialties with lots of regularity and clinic time and almost no emergencies and hospital consults you're looking at derm, rheum, rad onc and then possibly endocrine, heme onc and PM&R.

 

[Museless]

I did a forensic psychiatry elective, and there's way more to it than crime scenes. In fact, not one of my attendings went to a single crime scene in a month's time. It was pretty much like regular psychiatry, except that all your patients are either suspected criminals or convicted criminals.

Forensic psych involves working with people whom a court has declared UST (unfit to stand trial) to get them fit for trial, with people who are NGRI (not guilty by reason of insanity) to treat them and get them as high-functioning as possible before their Thiem (mandatory release) date, and going to court to testify as well as performing court-ordered psychiatric evaluation.

If you're looking for a non-primary care specialty w/ an outpt focus, don't forget neuro. 😍