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someone, please give me ideas on what i should do with myself (aside from take a valium 😉 ):
i 😍 psych, but i have a very hard time dealing with patients with substance abuse issues. i'd rather deal with more "purely" depressed patients or patients with comorbid medical conditions. the patients i tended to gravitate towards during third year were the very sick, depressed patients, so i was thinking c-l psych for the longest time. i adore consultation work. so many cases each day, so many challenges. no mundane disposition red tape b.s. to deal with. just interview, examination, a/p. i also very much doubt i'll be happy doing any psychotherapy (i vaguely need instant gratification, or as close to it that i can get in these fields! 🙂 ). recently, i started my fourth year neurology rotation and am 😍ing it too. but the more i talk with the neurologists the more i feel this huge rift between psych and neuro that is unsettling to me. i really wish the two fields could be so much more integrated. now it seems that neurologists need a full year of im, and i kinda like that. the medical stuff is what separates psychiatrists from psychologists. i also like the thought of localizing behaviors in the brain. so one of the neurologists at my institution recommended i do neuro and follow up with a behavioral fellowship. but what about the neuroscience fellowship i've vaguely heard about? what're the differences between these fields? what type of patients do they see? i like neuro, but i'd also go crazy working up strokes all day long... i'm so freakin' 😕 and the neuro application process is well underway! any thoughts/advice would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance!
(i'll cross-post this to the psych forum to get their feedback as well.)
i 😍 psych, but i have a very hard time dealing with patients with substance abuse issues. i'd rather deal with more "purely" depressed patients or patients with comorbid medical conditions. the patients i tended to gravitate towards during third year were the very sick, depressed patients, so i was thinking c-l psych for the longest time. i adore consultation work. so many cases each day, so many challenges. no mundane disposition red tape b.s. to deal with. just interview, examination, a/p. i also very much doubt i'll be happy doing any psychotherapy (i vaguely need instant gratification, or as close to it that i can get in these fields! 🙂 ). recently, i started my fourth year neurology rotation and am 😍ing it too. but the more i talk with the neurologists the more i feel this huge rift between psych and neuro that is unsettling to me. i really wish the two fields could be so much more integrated. now it seems that neurologists need a full year of im, and i kinda like that. the medical stuff is what separates psychiatrists from psychologists. i also like the thought of localizing behaviors in the brain. so one of the neurologists at my institution recommended i do neuro and follow up with a behavioral fellowship. but what about the neuroscience fellowship i've vaguely heard about? what're the differences between these fields? what type of patients do they see? i like neuro, but i'd also go crazy working up strokes all day long... i'm so freakin' 😕 and the neuro application process is well underway! any thoughts/advice would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance!
(i'll cross-post this to the psych forum to get their feedback as well.)
