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Roads?
Started by duke12
ROAD is a long-used acronym for Radiology, Ophthalmology, Anesthesia, Derm that refers to highly competitive specialties that offer great salaries and good lifestyle. Those specific four residencies are not the only ones anymore (rad-onc offers similar qualities) and anesthesia is not as competitive as it was several years ago. However, the ROAD term remains to describe specialties that have these characteristics.
In the future, the search function can be helpful for finding definitions to some of these proprietary terms.
In the future, the search function can be helpful for finding definitions to some of these proprietary terms.
I personally think EM should be added in there too. But, I have been admonished for being a forward thinker and not embrassing the traditions of the past.....🙁
The acronym is ROAD (no S) and it's a several decade old acronym for the four specialties which at the time provided a healthy balance of competitiveness, salary and light workload. Those specialties were radiology, ophthalmology, anesthesiology, and dermatology. It should be noted that anesthesiology has had an up and down history in terms of competitiveness and is now not as unattainable as the other fields, rad onc has since become a separate specialty from radiology and probably offers comparable competitiveness, salary and hours, and many pundits would suggest that thanks to shift work, EM now offers better hours for the buck than many of the more competitive field. But the ROAD acronym persists in the medical vernacular.
also, please check out the search function....🙂
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off to my vacation.....😎
I never understood what that smiley meant...
Really? Hard to believe it was much of an attempt....
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=686562
I think the "I tried" statement is usually a facade to cover the "it was easier to ask then to look"....
Doesn't it just mean that you're posting to increase your post count?
