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FernandoV said:
I was just wondering if anyone had an idea of which type of resident has the best lifestyle (i.e. least hours, least call, least stress, etc). Thanks.
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They all suck in the first year, there's no escape.

After that...psych, derm, rehab, others?
 
FP in many places seems to get cusher every year. Many FP programs are luring applicants with free computers, palms, and promises of no overnight call. FP residents seem to be in the hospital less and less. Plus with the broad training, they seem to get the best hookups for moonlighting etc.

Psych is also attractive except the patient population. I have friends who are being promised their own offices that are super plush, good hours
 
Pathology hands down. I'm at work after 0700 and (except for surg path months) home before 1700. I've spent every night this year in my own bed, taken call seven times (for a week) with an average of 5 calls a week. Off all weekends. My golf game has improved and I get to see my wife... that's about all I can ask for.
 
DrBloodmoney said:
Pathology hands down. I'm at work after 0700 and (except for surg path months) home before 1700. I've spent every night this year in my own bed, taken call seven times (for a week) with an average of 5 calls a week. Off all weekends. My golf game has improved and I get to see my wife... that's about all I can ask for.
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You're the man! 👍
 
Well, ophtho isn't all that bad either...it's home call, clinic is usually 8-5 pm except on OR days (2x wk) when you start at 7:30, and best of all little or NO rounding! It's also a "clean" field - no rectals, no cervicals, no nothing.
 
Allergy
Rheum
PMR
Occupat Med
Derm
Path? (unaware of the field)
Rad Onc

I'll venture to say that a Hospitalist has good lifestyle. Shift work, lots of time off, no follow up.


I don't think FP is all that cush (all depends on your group size however). Chasing down pts with phone calls and the goblets of paperwork for referrals and poopy copays is overwhelming. Not to mention you have to hear every friggen complaint in the book...then you have pts in the hospital on top of it. Yech.
 
VentdependenT said:
Allergy
Rheum
PMR
Occupat Med
Derm
Path? (unaware of the field)
Rad Onc

I'll venture to say that a Hospitalist has good lifestyle. Shift work, lots of time off, no follow up.


I don't think FP is all that cush (all depends on your group size however). Chasing down pts with phone calls and the goblets of paperwork for referrals and poopy copays is overwhelming. Not to mention you have to hear every friggen complaint in the book...then you have pts in the hospital on top of it. Yech.
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I couldn't agree with you more vent...nonetheless, there are people who enjoy continuity of care and caring for every single part of the patient and every single person from "womb to tomb" god bless em...I would kill myself after the first week.
 
It's all program dependent.

UMich opthy is home call.
UMich derm is home call as well...aparently the only reason for them to come in is if it a suspected case of Steven-Johnson syndrome.
UMich PM&R is home call, averages to be about Q10-12 days per call, rare reasons to come in.

Then again, I have heard of opthy being Q4 in house, and I know there are rehab programs that are Q8 in house covering a 200 patient rehab hospital by yourself. :laugh:

You must choose....but choose wisely!
 
It all depends on the pogram since in just about every field there are institutions with easier call schedules as opposed to others. I have an intern friend who is on call q5 for wards, q4 for ICU and there are NO overnight calls ever for interns (except in ICU) at her residency (This is internal medicine by the way). This other friend of mine will be starting there in July as well. So it all varies as you can see. Some pograms are just easier than others despite the fields.
 
DrBloodmoney said:
Pathology hands down. I'm at work after 0700 and (except for surg path months) home before 1700. I've spent every night this year in my own bed, taken call seven times (for a week) with an average of 5 calls a week. Off all weekends. My golf game has improved and I get to see my wife... that's about all I can ask for.
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and no internship/transitional year 👍 🙂 😀

everybody, toss your stethoscopes and come to the light! :laugh:
 
VentdependenT said:
well well well,

http://www.theantiagingdoctor.com/fellowship.htm

http://www.worldhealth.net/p/98,364.html

What the hell was I thinking? I could have gotten an occupational medicine reisidency then BAM right into board certification for antiaging medicine. Throw in some hair removal and vericose vein removing lazers/injections and Whammo! I'm buying my own personal Magnum P.I. 1970's paint-style helicopter.
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OMFG did you read that dude's CV?!
Fellowship in Nutritional Pharmacology and Neuroimmunology. World Health Foundation grant, 1984-1986.

Fellowship in Clinical Oncology and the Development of the Hospice Concept, American Oncologic Hospital, Fox Chase, Pa., completed in 1974.

Fellowship in Adolescent Psychiatry and Chief Resident, University of Pennsylvania, Adolescent Treatment Unit, completed in 1972.

Institute of The Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., Residency in Psychiatry and Neurology, completed in 1972.

Fellowships: Forensic Medicine Fellowship in Law and Psychiatry, Jonas Robitscher, M.D., J.D., completed 1971.

Neurosurgical Residency, Philadelphia General Hospital, 1968-69.

Radiology Residency, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, S.C., 1967-1968

Rotating Internship - Philadelphia General Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa, 1967.

Cum Laude Graduate M.D. with Honors in Physiology and Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, S.C., 1966.

Undergraduate B.A. in Humanities - Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., 1957.
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How the hell is that even possible I ask??

That is beyond insane.
 
LADoc00 said:
OMFG did you read that dude's CV?!


How the hell is that even possible I ask??

That is beyond insane.
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LMAO, I didn't even notice that.

He bounced around quite a bit. Never the less, I'd like to be able to read a CT and put my signature at the bottom of the dictation, then go straight to the OR and operate on the guys head, then stop off at a crime scene on the way home and tell the cops how long some guys been dead as well as how he died, then counsel the deceased's family (especially the teens). Afterwards I'd go home and and call in my scripts for Zofran from my onc patients and give them a buzz and let em know how to stop aging.

Faaaaaaannnnfriggen-tastic. Thats got Magnum's helicopter AND the Ferrari number. Forget pain management. I'm goen antiaging all the way fellas!
 
VentdependenT said:
LMAO, I didn't even notice that.

He bounced around quite a bit. Never the less, I'd like to be able to read a CT and put my signature at the bottom of the dictation, then go straight to the OR and operate on the guys head, then stop off at a crime scene on the way home and tell the cops how long some guys been dead as well as how he died, then counsel the deceased's family (especially the teens). Afterwards I'd go home and and call in my scripts for Zofran from my onc patients and give them a buzz and let em know how to stop aging.

Faaaaaaannnnfriggen-tastic. Thats got Magnum's helicopter AND the Ferrari number. Forget pain management. I'm goen antiaging all the way fellas!
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he is a one man medical cime fighting super trooper!! LOL.
 
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