specialists for rural medicine

[dollarbincommon]

Hi everyone,

Half of the schools that I will be applying to have a strong preference for students to become primary care physicians and/or serve in the rural/underserved areas.

Honestly, I'm not interested in primary care. However, I'm considering both rural and urban areas. I'm trying to keep my options open. The thing is that I'm thinking about specializing. I'm thinking about forensic path.

So, my question is: do you think that specializing and rural area can go hand-in-hand? (I mean, hospitals in rural areas still need paths)

If anyone knows, I will appreciate it. Thanks.

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[Amy B]

I am not sure about this question. I think that rural hospitals send a lot of things out of house so they might not need a forensic path. But you can specialize as a DO and schools know not everyone they train will be a primary care and work in rural areas. At one of my interviews they told us they are training us to become doctors whether we specialize will be up to us.

 

[dollarbincommon]

Originally posted by Amy B
I am not sure about this question. I think that rural hospitals send a lot of things out of house so they might not need a forensic path. But you can specialize as a DO and schools know not everyone they train will be a primary care and work in rural areas. At one of my interviews they told us they are training us to become doctors whether we specialize will be up to us.

Thanks. I am thinking about adding VCOM to the list.

 

[Amy B]

 

[ckent]

Most of the path these days is sent to special path companies or to academic medical centers. Forensics path is often done in urban settings, like our state medical examiners office is in the city, I imagine that it's just because they have so many more criminal investigations involving corpses going on there, it doesn't make any sense to ship them out to the county. Path is currently an easy match. If your sure that's what you want to do (which you shouldn't be sure), you shouldn't worry too much about your school's rep.