Pediatric Fellowship

[808Medic]

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Hey guys, lowly pre med student/Paramedic here. I did have a few questions, as I would like to be an anesthesiologist. I was thinking about doing a fellowship in pediatrics after residency in anesthesiology. Do they have dedicated pediatric anesthesiologists or do you folks do all patients of all ages? Is doing a fellowship for this a plausible move? I know getting into anesthesia residency can be competitive, would peds anesthesia be harder to get into, easier, same? Is there much of a demand for it? Is this a good game plan or should I consider doing this another way or route? I know this is getting quite a bit a head of myself, but I figure the earlier I look into and plan things, it will make it easier when the time comes.

Also, for those of you attendings, how long would you say until you were able to pay off your loans after residency and a fellowship? I hope I am not being redundant and repetitive in my questions. Thank you for any input you may have.

 

[PMPMD]

Hey guys, lowly pre med student/Paramedic here. I did have a few questions, as I would like to be an anesthesiologist. I was thinking about doing a fellowship in pediatrics after residency in anesthesiology. Do they have dedicated pediatric anesthesiologists or do you folks do all patients of all ages? Is doing a fellowship for this a plausible move? I know getting into anesthesia residency can be competitive, would peds anesthesia be harder to get into, easier, same? Is there much of a demand for it? Is this a good game plan or should I consider doing this another way or route? I know this is getting quite a bit a head of myself, but I figure the earlier I look into and plan things, it will make it easier when the time comes.

Also, for those of you attendings, how long would you say until you were able to pay off your loans after residency and a fellowship? I hope I am not being redundant and repetitive in my questions. Thank you for any input you may have.

At academic programs, often the peds folks just do peds. In private practice, it depends. I believe the peds fellowship is somewhat competitive. They have a match system now. Keep in mind things could change drastically in the 8-10 years between now and when you would be applying for fellowship. Who knows if anesthesia residency will be more or less competitive then. Not sure what you mean by another route. There's only one route to peds anesthesia I'm familiar with: anesthesia residency + peds anesthesia fellowship. It's not like critical care or pain which are multi-disciplinary fields in which a few different residency paths exist.

 

[Noyac]

Welcome.
Your plan is fine. As PMPMD stated, in academics it really helps to have a peds fellowship but in PP (private practice) its not necessary. In the past, peds fellowships were easy to attain. I'm not sure about that these days. The trend is definitely towards doing a fellowship of some sort. Most PP attendings do it all and enjoy it tht way.

Loans are tough. I personally haven't paid off all of mine but not because I can't. The interest rates are so low that I do better just paying the minimum and investing the rest. With that being said, I am probably about to pay it all off in one lump sum for other reasons. But if things change drastically, loans could be handled differently. Whatever you do make every effort to keep,your loans as low as possible. I would refer you to JPP's posts on this topic but that may get me in trouble.

 

[imfrankie]

I paid all mine off first thing out of residency $10k checks at a time. Kept living like a resident. Didn't hit the jackpot with the appreciating housing or stock market, but I didn't take a loss and get left high and dry with only loan balances as bragging rights either.

 

[amidoinitrite]

PGY-1 here, i've had a strong interest in PD gas. Academics sounds great, but does that mean there are scant private practice jobs that are looking for pd fellows?