Reproductive Endocrinology

[bubster9]

How hard is it to obtain an REI fellowship. I know males are said to have a harder time obtaining the needed OB/GYN residency but what about for fellowship. Once in practice, what's REI's lifestyle and compensation like. Any other info on the field would be great if you could share!

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[AnnK]

Im doing ob/gyn right now so I have a little insight into the REI feild. Seems like the lifestyle is pretty tough for the infertility stuff. Alot of the procedures are dictated by ovulation timings so alot of weekends. I guess gyn onc is the hardest ob/gyn fellowship to get. Not sure specifically abotu REI fellowships. I wouldn't think that the disadvantage for males would carry through to REI. Certainly not to getting the fellowship and likely not to building a practice. I think that the compensations is quite impressive. I think that it is a fascinating feild. The negatives to be seem to be lifestyle and doing the ob/gyn residency.
Im sure someone else will know more than I.

 

[WSU02]

Just finished an REI month.

Very good pay. Lifestyle...that's another matter. Some places don't work weekends, the office I was at did - they worked EVERY day of the year.

I personally found it to be a bit dull - egg retrievals and IVF are very routine. ZIFTs are a boring surgery, IMHO.

However, being male doesn't seem to interfere in getting the fellowship.
Kristi