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[mnc1521]

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Sorry if this has been asked, I did not see it. I am a pre med student and I am about 99 percent sure I want to be an EM physician over other specialties. I am seeing some things about fellowships like for peds or toxicology and other EM fellowships. I was always under the impression (even by ER doctors I work with) that a fellowship is not required for EM physicians. Am I under the wrong impression, is a fellowship required for EM physicians or optional? Is it hard to get a job without a fellowship?

I want to work in a level 1 or 2 trauma center that takes care of kids and adults (like the one I am currently a scribe at). I do not want to work in a childrens ER or a big city like New York or Chicago. I want to stay in FL, the biggest city would possibly be Orlando or Miami but I would actually prefer to work in my hometown which is not that big of an area like Orlando or anything. However, anywhere in FL would be fine with me.

Thank you.

 

[Doctor Bob]

I was always under the impression (even by ER doctors I work with) that a fellowship is not required for EM physicians. Am I under the wrong impression, is a fellowship required for EM physicians or optional? Is it hard to get a job without a fellowship?

Fellowships are not required. They are ways for people to sub-specialize in an aspect of the field they are interested in. Doing a fellowship might make it easier to get an academic job, but really makes no difference everywhere else. It is not difficult to get a job without a fellowship.

 

[NYEMMED]

Sorry if this has been asked, I did not see it. I am a pre med student and I am about 99 percent sure I want to be an EM physician over other specialties. I am seeing some things about fellowships like for peds or toxicology and other EM fellowships. I was always under the impression (even by ER doctors I work with) that a fellowship is not required for EM physicians. Am I under the wrong impression, is a fellowship required for EM physicians or optional? Is it hard to get a job without a fellowship?

I want to work in a level 1 or 2 trauma center that takes care of kids and adults (like the one I am currently a scribe at). I do not want to work in a childrens ER or a big city like New York or Chicago. I want to stay in FL, the biggest city would possibly be Orlando or Miami but I would actually prefer to work in my hometown which is not that big of an area like Orlando or anything. However, anywhere in FL would be fine with me.

Thank you.

A fellowship is not necessary to work in EM. A fellowship is only done if you want to specialize within EM. For instance if you want to work at a peds ED then you do a Peds EM fellowship. Or if you want to work as a toxicologist in poison control etc, you do a toxicology fellowship. There are many fellowships within EM if those are careers you are interested in. If you want to be an EM physician then you just do residency, fellowship is not necessary and fellowship is not required for work.

 

[mnc1521]

Thank you! That's good to know. I don't want to do academic work or anything so I'm glad I don't need a fellowship