residency questions before match list

[sweetlenovo88]

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The DO ROL is coming out soon and I have a couple questions for the senior residents/attendings.

1. If I train in a rural hospital and get board certified in EM and then want to get a job practicing in big city like Miami, will I have problems getting hired?

2. Would a doc in a combined program EM/IM have a leg up in getting a job in EM versus straight EM?

3. Say there are two programs. One has a volume of 70k and the other has a volume of 45k. The higher volume program requires 20 12 hour shifts a month and the other 15 12 hour shifts a month. Would you be less competent in the 15 shifts a month program with everything else being equal?

 

[sweetlenovo88]

no one?

 

[deleted109597]

Mostly no bites because it's been discussed, but here.

1. No, as long as you are BC/BE
2. No
3. Your competency depends mostly on you, and then falls on the people training you. The number of patients doesn't matter, but what they present with does.

 

[tremulousNeedle]

Mostly no bites because it's been discussed, but here.

1. No, as long as you are BC/BE
2. No
3. Your competency depends mostly on you, and then falls on the people training you. The number of patients doesn't matter, but what they present with does.

I agree with all this, with the following addition:
2. Not usually. However, a combined EM/IM trained physician may have certain appeal to some academic EM programs (such as a program that offers an EM/IM training option).

Editorial: 12 hour shifts can be brutal, I couldn't imagine doing 20.