Specialty that keeps you fit and stay athletic?

[frodohobo]

Which specialties out there require you to be fit due to the amount of physical activity on the job? I like to stay active and do a bunch of sports as a hobby and dread a job where I am just standing or sitting all day. I'm looking for a specialty that will compliment an active lifestyle!

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[neusu]

Everyone will say EM or ortho.

EM because it's lifestyle, fast paced, 40 hours/week.

Ortho because you have to bench to get in.

My vote is for neurosurgery. I get up and workout before rounds, round, run around/operate all day/run around, post round, workout, go to sleep.

Lifestyle is what you make it.

 

[DopaDO]

http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/lifestyle/2014/public/overview#2

Derm is the specialty with the least amount of overweight physicians.

 

[Psai]

Sports medicine

 

[shenanigi]

Pretty much any specialty can do this if you make time for it. No one runs laps through the hospital. The people you see that are in shape are able to maintain by kicking ass outside the hospital.

 

[Wordead]

Plastics from all the sexxxin you be gettin

 

[deleted500612]

Which specialties out there require you to be fit due to the amount of physical activity on the job? I like to stay active and do a bunch of sports as a hobby and dread a job where I am just standing or sitting all day. I'm looking for a specialty that will compliment an active lifestyle!

I hope this is a troll post. Physicians are not required to be fit in any specialty, and no specialty is anywhere near physically demanding enough to increase your physical fitness level to the point of being considered "fit".

 

[evilbooyaa]

Ortho has a lot of heavy lifting. That plus your bench is considered for residency applications.

 

[neusu]

Ortho has a lot of heavy lifting. That plus your bench is considered for residency applications.

Ortho secret: Bench + board score = Ortho score

 

[Mad Jack]

http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/lifestyle/2014/public/overview#2

Derm is the specialty with the least amount of overweight physicians.

That's because all the swole physicians in ortho are "overweight" on paper.

 

[SunsFun]

That's because all the swole physicians in ortho are "overweight" on paper.

Seriously let's look at body fat % rather than BMI.

 

[TheWeeIceMan]

Military medicine.

 

[chondroblast]

EM

 

[gators21]

Psych..Someone's gotta tackle the crazies. And you can save money on orderlies. Win Win Profit

 

[link2swim06]

Whatever gives you the most time off....

Derm, psych, etc...

 

[frodohobo]

Great responses but to reword my question: which specialty will let you really get your hands dirty to the point where you kind of forget that you're in a professional setting because you're too busy saving lives, as cliche as it sounds I want to sweat and get blood all over me. Ok that's a little extreme but you get my point. I figured EM and military would count but I can't think of other specialties that are similar.

 

[Mad Jack]

Great responses but to reword my question: which specialty will let you really get your hands dirty to the point where you kind of forget that you're in a professional setting because you're too busy saving lives, as cliche as it sounds I want to sweat and get blood all over me. Ok that's a little extreme but you get my point. I figured EM and military would count but I can't think of other specialties that are similar.

Surgery. You'll get your hands so dirty that you might just forget how to be a human being.

EM isn't as glamorous as it sounds. The majority of your patients have complaints that shouldn't have brought them to the ER, have psych issues, are drug abusers, or some combination of the above. If you're in a really busy ED, you'll have a few traumas a day, but most will not be all that crazy, and most of the good stuff will be managed by trauma surg anyway. If you go rural, you can get your hands dirtier, but it'll happen a lot less often. Military med is a whole different set of commitments, from what I hear. If you really enjoy the paperwork, bureaucracy, and lack of autonomy in the civilian world, but feel it just doesn't go far enough, consider milmed.

 

[HarryPlopper]

EM comes to mind.

 

[Flamen04]

You should shadow more physicians or join the military. "I want to sweat and get blood all over me." LOL

 

[Arkangeloid]

It depends on whether you're a stress eater or a stress starver.

 

[evilbooyaa]

Great responses but to reword my question: which specialty will let you really get your hands dirty to the point where you kind of forget that you're in a professional setting because you're too busy saving lives, as cliche as it sounds I want to sweat and get blood all over me. Ok that's a little extreme but you get my point. I figured EM and military would count but I can't think of other specialties that are similar.

Trauma Surgery.

 

[Kahreek]

the specialty who will let you to be the greatest amount of time out of the hospital.

 

[Arkangeloid]

I was interested in EM until I had to actually do inpatient training in the ER. I quickly got sick of all the drug addicts, drunk people, convicts, deranged psych patients, people using the ER as a PCP, and other IRL trolls.

Though from what I understand, I would never be competitive for EM anyways. Still, good to know that the rejection works both ways, at least.

 

[frodohobo]

So it looks like the closest thing to have somewhat best of both worlds is EM.

 

[Nasrudin]

the specialty who will let you to be the greatest amount of time out of the hospital.

Exactly. This should be obvious. Self selection for beautiful people aside in derm and plastics or strong people for ortho. Good sleep, lower stress, and time to work out are much, much better than just working long hard hours for physical fitness.

Sure moving is better than sitting but we could also add extra dimension to the discussion by damage done to your physical body by different specialties--stuff you don't think about in your 20's. I'm guessing those 80 hour weeks spent hunching forward in static positions may look different as the wear and tear of 10-20-30 years in develops.

 

[alpinism]

Obviously you need to start setting testosterone pills on the interwebz.

Also, don't accept insurance or medicare.

 

[notbobtrustme]

I heard they revoke your orthro card if you can't bench 350.

 

[KinasePro]

Based on my own experience, seems like radiology has a bimodal distribution of the most and least fit docs in the hospital. The reading room seems to have a blender bottle at nearly every station.

Everyone jokes about ortho, but theres a wide variety of body composition in the field. EM docs have far more spare time to make dem gainz.

 

[jdh71]

 

[mulberry]

PM&R of course. They know the ins and outs of the musculoskeletal system and they have a lot more free time than the average specialist.

 

[DrEnderW]

I heard they revoke your orthro card if you can't bench 350.

If that was true, no one in the US could get a hand repair

 

[HopefulReapp]

Pretty much any specialty can do this if you make time for it. No one runs laps through the hospital. The people you see that are in shape are able to maintain by kicking ass outside the hospital.

I know an attending that requires residents and students with him to take the stairs everywhere rather than elevators!

 

[Dr. USMLE]

Based on my own experience, seems like radiology has a bimodal distribution of the most and least fit docs in the hospital. The reading room seems to have a blender bottle at nearly every station.
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Haha...my rads program's residents are definitely extremely fit and there's a "bro" culture here. Even the attendings a are very fit for the most part.

 

[Anastomoses]

Obviously you need to start setting testosterone pills on the interwebz.

Also, don't accept insurance or medicare.

Why can't they do something to ****** the aging of the face? Ugh.

And if he's doing all this, why doesn't he put some hair back on that head.

 

[punkedoutriffs]

Why can't they do something to ****** the aging of the face? Ugh.

And if he's doing all this, why doesn't he put some hair back on that head.

It's never good enough is it? 70 yr old man w/ the body of a spartan just doesn't quite impress.

 

[KnuxNole]

I know an attending that requires residents and students with him to take the stairs everywhere rather than elevators!

Yep, had an attending do this too. It was only 5-6 floors so it wasn't like hiking up a 30 story building :O

 

[YoungestBrother]

Great responses but to reword my question: which specialty will let you really get your hands dirty to the point where you kind of forget that you're in a professional setting because you're too busy saving lives, as cliche as it sounds I want to sweat and get blood all over me. Ok that's a little extreme but you get my point. I figured EM and military would count but I can't think of other specialties that are similar.

Large animal vets. Those guys don't have an office because it's hard to bring a horse to a clinic. It's all house/barn calls.

But seriously, I bet you're looking for trauma surgery. People get broken, and you put em back together. You do it fast so that they don't die, so there's your adrenaline.