Pediatrics: Allergy & Immunology

[mimosamosa]

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Hi - I am a peds intern and I was hoping to find out some more information on Pediatric Allergy & Immunology, what your typical day entails (i.e. cases you see in academic vs. private practice), what the application process is like, the competitiveness, and the research requirements to get into an AI fellowship? As a practicing physician, what is the lifestyle like - overnight calls? hours?

Any info is much appreciated.. just trying to keep my eyes open to all the possibilites.

Thanks.
-M

 

[HappyGenome]

Hi - I am a peds intern and I was hoping to find out some more information on Pediatric Allergy & Immunology, what your typical day entails (i.e. cases you see in academic vs. private practice), what the application process is like, the competitiveness, and the research requirements to get into an AI fellowship? As a practicing physician, what is the lifestyle like - overnight calls? hours?

Any info is much appreciated.. just trying to keep my eyes open to all the possibilites.

Thanks.
-M

I am also interested to know about this. Also, why do adult A&I make a lot more than pediatric A&I?

 

[J-Rad]

I am also interested to know about this. Also, why do adult A&I make a lot more than pediatric A&I?

The things about A&I I know: generally good lifestyle and competitive to get into.

As to pay discrepancy: really it's going to be based on payer mix and good billing, not on whether you are an "adult" or "peds" A&I specialist per se. The reason for that is that an individual is boarded in A&I regardless of whether they completed a pediatrics, IM, or med-peds residency before fellowship. A&I is one field and they can evaluate and treat all ages. Now if one were to restrict their practice to seeing only or mostly peds they would likely increase the Medicaid population in their payer mix and, thus, make less money. But they do not have to choose to restrict themselves to peds only.

Now somewhat tangentially: there are pediatric pulmonologists who also train in A&I (with an abbreviated pathway to do so https://www.abp.org/ABPWebStatic/?a...ebsite/certinfo/subspec/eligibil/pulmelig.htm). If they are actively practicing as pediatric pulmonologists, the majority of their patients will be pediatric (thus the same skewing of payers) and they are most often tied to an academic center further dropping their salary expectation (vs. private practice)

 

[SurfingDoctor]

I might suggest asking this in an allergy/immunology forum as there is no such thing as "Pediatric Allergy & Immunology", it is a combined adult/pediatric fellowship, ie IM and peds residents compete for the same fellowship spots.

Edit: On a second look, there is no Allergy/Immunology forum that I could find. Weird, I could have sworn there was one. Anyway, you might want to ask this in the IM forum too.

 

[J-Rad]

It's discouraged to post the same question in multiple fora per the TOS. Also the last few questions posted in the IM forum in re Allergy haven't generated much in the way of responses:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/search.php?searchid=17083940

 

[SurfingDoctor]

Ah. Good to know.