Surgery vs. Pediatrics residency

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[MrBurns10]

Have you considered pediatric surgery? It's a long way until then and the fellowship is competitive (and thus, not guaranteed), but it's a really cool specialty that might be for you.

As for your application, I would see if you could do a surgery sub-I as soon as possible and consider submitting your application after you revise your personal statement and not necessarily on Sept 1.

 

[oldbearprofessor]

I just feel like there are two different sides of me: One, who absolutely loves children and the cognitive/cerebral aspect of Peds, and the other side loves the hands-on part of General Surgery and simply just concentrating on the work in front of me and not needing to talk to the patient but still helping the patient in a huge way.

Just as "surgery" encompasses many fields, so does "pediatrics." Several pediatric specialties involve a considerable amount of procedural work including cardiology, GI, neonatology, PICU and pediEM. Only you can decide what you want to do but I get the feeling that you are procedure focused. In that case, you'll be unlikely to be very happy in general pediatrics and need to decide on surgery vs a pedi specialty with procedures. I'd go and talk to a few folks doing the pedi specialties as well as the surgeons to get a sense of where you'd fit in the best.

 

[Droopy Snoopy]

ENT sounds like your calling if you're competitive.

 

[LuckyBambooGirl]

You could write 1 peds personal statement and 1 surgery personal statement--ERAS lets you desigante which personal statement goes to which program. You can do the same with your letters. That way you could send out applications to both specialties, which might give you more time to make up your mind. Of course, that just puts off the decision.

I'm in the same boat, except that I'm trying to decide between family med and ob. I'm not going to apply to both programs though. My schedule is all set up for family practice, so as of right now I'm gonna stick with that one. Like your resident said, I think it's all a crapshoot. It's impossible to tell if you made the right choice until a little later down the road. Good luck!

 

[sprinkibrio]

Almost all of the pedi cards that i worked with this past year wanted to go into surgery before peds. In cards you get to do a lot of hands on things (caths) and work directly with surgeons (and even work in the OR doing echos).

 

[DrJosephKim]

Consider pediatric ER. You can train in peds, then do an ER fellowship.

Or, you can train in ER, then do a pediatric ER fellowship.

 

[twostep376]

sorry to post on an old thread.....but is there any benefit to doing EM residency --> pedsEM fellowship vs peds residency --> pedsEM fellowship?

Thanks!