Too much EM??

[Cal2Lane]

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I'm a fourth year having already done a month of EM (required by school). I'm scheduled for three EM externships of which two are EM shifts and the third is a toxicology EM rotation. Is that too much? I'm doing it partly to evaluate the programs (and have them evaluate me) as well as to take advantage of hanging out with friends who live in New York . . I know I'll be sacrificing taking other electives, but I have scheduled a bunch of "two-week" rotations in Derm, Ortho, Anes, and Rads to round out my curriculum. I'm not sure if this enough given that I leave out disciplines like cards and ID.

Any thoughts?

 

[Farbar]

I'm a fourth year having already done a month of EM (required by school). I'm scheduled for three EM externships of which two are EM shifts and the third is a toxicology EM rotation. Is that too much? I'm doing it partly to evaluate the programs (and have them evaluate me) as well as to take advantage of hanging out with friends who live in New York . . I know I'll be sacrificing taking other electives, but I have scheduled a bunch of "two-week" rotations in Derm, Ortho, Anes, and Rads to round out my curriculum. I'm not sure if this enough given that I leave out disciplines like cards and ID.

Any thoughts?

If you like it than what is the big deal? If you hate it than start thinking about other fields

 

[Dr.Evil1]

Sounds fun actually. Your EM program should do a good job educating you in all the "important" other areas of medicine. Have fun in tox.

 

[EctopicFetus]

Generally the advice I got was to do what interested me. I did 2 months of straight EM, then no more. I figure I will get enough during residency.

I did Derm, MICU, Rads etc.

Things I didnt do that I wish I did... Cards and Ortho but they didnt fit in with my M4 lifestlye!

 

[JackBauERfan]

Generally the advice I got was to do what interested me. I did 2 months of straight EM, then no more. I figure I will get enough during residency.

I did Derm, MICU, Rads etc.

Things I didnt do that I wish I did... Cards and Ortho but they didnt fit in with my M4 lifestlye!

I agree I think you should do whichever ones you like. Some schools have restrictions on how many months of a particular field you can do (like mine said no more than 2 months of the same field no matter where you do it). So, I ended up doing an straight EM month at home, one straight EM away and one away EM ultrasound month. So you can pick things that are not EM and still work in/around EM.

I actually enjoyed my cariology month and I liked my ICU's also. I kind of wish instead of doing the away straight EM month, I just did a Wildnerness EM month somewhere would have been cool (maybe in montana haha).

 

[JackBauERfan]

I'm a fourth year having already done a month of EM (required by school). I'm scheduled for three EM externships of which two are EM shifts and the third is a toxicology EM rotation. Is that too much? I'm doing it partly to evaluate the programs (and have them evaluate me) as well as to take advantage of hanging out with friends who live in New York . . I know I'll be sacrificing taking other electives, but I have scheduled a bunch of "two-week" rotations in Derm, Ortho, Anes, and Rads to round out my curriculum. I'm not sure if this enough given that I leave out disciplines like cards and ID.

Any thoughts?

So to answer your question, I don't think thats too much EM if you want to evaluate the programs. That is a good reason to do a rotation and I do think doing the EM toxicology rotation would be good instead of another straight EM month.