Texas internal or family medicine

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[Sleepingdoc]

I am from a neighbor state of Texas and would like to either stay in my home state or go to urban areas of Texas, especially Austin or Houston. Step 1: 215. Should I focus on internal or family when applying this fall (because it would be bad to apply to both at the same institution, right?)? I’m guessing family is easier to get into, but I’d like to stay in urban areas. Career goals are to practice both inpatient and outpatient. I like inpatient a little more. I don’t mind and enjoy learning about treating kids and pregnant women. I’m most interested in adults and women’s health.

Pick either one but IM would be in a more urban setting than family.... If you like inpatient/hospital more then IM would be better than an FM route.. IM generally you would have more calls/nights/weekends especially during residency than FM.. If you like outpatient and are trying to be a true general physician with a little bit of everything then FM is the better route.

 

[laud]

Pick either one but IM would be in a more urban setting than family.... If you like inpatient/hospital more then IM would be better than an FM route.. IM generally you would have more calls/nights/weekends especially during residency than FM.. If you like outpatient and are trying to be a true general physician with a little bit of everything then FM is the better route.

Thank you for your reply! I pretty much know all this already and know IM will probably give me more of what I want in a career. I’m also trying to look at the bigger picture. Both will take me down similar paths of becoming a primary care doctor. Which one will make it easier to get into an urban area in Texas with my step score? For example, Austin and Houston have both FM and IM programs. It would look bad to apply to both at the same institutions, so which would I have a better chance of getting an interview at coming from out of state with a low step score? My gut says FM is easier to get into because that’s what is typical, but maybe someone from those areas know better?

 

[Sleepingdoc]

Thank you for your reply! I pretty much know all this already and know IM will probably give me more of what I want in a career. I’m also trying to look at the bigger picture. Both will take me down similar paths of becoming a primary care doctor. Which one will make it easier to get into an urban area in Texas with my step score? For example, Austin and Houston have both FM and IM programs. It would look bad to apply to both at the same institutions, so which would I have a better chance of getting an interview at coming from out of state with a low step score? My gut says FM is easier to get into because that’s what is typical, but maybe someone from those areas know better?

FM seems to have more programs and they have more of them in rural/small cities area... they only take few students in a class. IM seems to be more in an urban setting and tend to have more residents per class than FM.
If your goal is urban then your focus should be more IM than FM.

 

[jdh71]

I am from a neighbor state of Texas and would like to either stay in my home state or go to urban areas of Texas, especially Austin or Houston. Step 1: 215. Should I focus on internal or family when applying this fall (because it would be bad to apply to both at the same institution, right?)? I’m guessing family is easier to get into, but I’d like to stay in urban areas. Career goals are to practice both inpatient and outpatient. I like inpatient a little more. I don’t mind and enjoy learning about treating kids and pregnant women. I’m most interested in adults and women’s health.

Houston and area IM is not very competitive with programs that are actually pretty good.