We're in the Wrong Field.

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[Psyclops]

I can't think of anything to say that wouldn't violate someone's sensibilities.

 

[whopper]

Radiology is a field which is known to make a heck of a lot more money than several other medical fields.

Common, you're doing Psychiatry because its something you like to do.

 

[PublicHealth]

Common, you're doing Psychiatry because its something you like to do.

Right, and by that logic, I also like to do 35 weeks of vacation, so maybe I'm in the wrong field!

 

[Poety]

Right, and by that logic, I also like to do 35 weeks of vacation, so maybe I'm in the wrong field!

You're still young grasshoppa, DO RADS WHILE YOU STILL CAN 😱


Dammit, I'd switch fields for that compensation - seriously! I'll be a mole for half a mil a year, oh how I wish I had known!

 

[Psyclops]

This advertisements really made me think, "who cares if you aren't doing what you love".

 

[Poety]

This advertisements really made me think, "who cares if you aren't doing what you love".

I could do rads for that money - not surgery, but rads yes. Look at that lifestyle!

Ya know, I have a friend that took a year off since she didn't get into derm the first time around. I saw her leaving hte hospital at 1p to go meet with her fiance and have lunch, I said are you done for the day? She ws like "yup" 😱 when you think about these lifestyles (btw, she was an INTERN) it makes you wonder why you didn't pick those. I can hate my job if I only have to be there til 1p every day 😉

 

[pingouin]

A friend of mine is a rads resident in DC, and he said there must be something really wrong with that second job, b/c that salary is waaaay too high for the area, even for working nights.

As for the other, well, you'd have to move to Akron. 'Nuff said.

 

[MDhasbeen]

::cough:: outsourcing ::coughcough:: 😀

seriously, i could never do what rads do. not only does this outsourcing crap freak me out, but to me it's all so boring. also, i'm hearing more and more about machines being able to read films now. heck, even pathology slides are being read by computers. just try to outsource psych patients magically somehow, or replace a shrink with a machine and see where that gets you.

 

[PsychEval]

http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/specialties/Home.cfm

I am into medical psychology, pharmacology, triage, and psychological testing. I saw the medical specialty aptitude test and took it for fun. Radiology was at the top of my list, with infectious disease at number two, family practice was at the bottom of the list, with psychiatry being 2nd or 3rd from the bottom. Interesting. Just curious what some of the psychiatry residents and psychology grad students come up with on this test.

I know a couple of neuroradiologists, and they have quite a lifestyle. Additionally, as I have said before, they steal the show at our interdisciplinary neuroscience meetings.

 

[MDhasbeen]

http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/specialties/Home.cfm

I am into medical psychology, pharmacology, triage, and psychological testing. I saw the medical specialty aptitude test and took it for fun. Radiology was at the top of my list, with infectious disease at number two, family practice was at the bottom of the list, with psychiatry being 2nd or 3rd from the bottom. Interesting. Just curious what some of the psychiatry residents and psychology grad students come up with on this test.

I know a couple of neuroradiologists, and they have quite a lifestyle. Additionally, as I have said before, they steal the show at our interdisciplinary neuroscience meetings.

i've taken that test multiple times in the past. keep getting psych and c&a psych at the top of my list. i forgot what was at the bottom. probably path and surg.

 

[Poety]

Mine was Surgery, ER, OBGYN and PM&R, psych was near last which is interesting.

 

[Doctor Bagel]

That will be really interesting to take again at the end of my third year to see how dramatically different my results are. My top 5 are derm, psych, pm&r, peds and rheum, which seems pretty accurate to me except for peds because I'm not a big kid person. Derm's probably an impossibility, though, especially since I don't have a research background and am not planning on rocking med school.

Radiology is in the middle, but it seems so boring. I agree, though, that money and lifestyle might make it worthwhile, but, yeah, what about the outsourcing thing? My bottom list was general surgery, thoracic surgery, ob/gyn, cardiology, which makes sense because I'm really, really not procedurally inclined. The feminist in me makes ob/gyn seem appealing, but that's probably a bad reason to choose a specialty.

 

[Poety]

Yeah I should qualify my list by saying i love procedures.

 

[Triathlon]

i have taken this test in the past and psych was really low a few steps above family (always the bottom), derm is always number one (because the test doesn't ask "are you color blind? yes "can you see pink? no) I think I am going to do PM&R. See you all on the flip side, I'm outta here!

 

[PublicHealth]

From our friends in the rads forum: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=286940

 

[Doc Samson]

http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/specialties/Home.cfm

I am into medical psychology, pharmacology, triage, and psychological testing. I saw the medical specialty aptitude test and took it for fun. Radiology was at the top of my list, with infectious disease at number two, family practice was at the bottom of the list, with psychiatry being 2nd or 3rd from the bottom. Interesting. Just curious what some of the psychiatry residents and psychology grad students come up with on this test.

I know a couple of neuroradiologists, and they have quite a lifestyle. Additionally, as I have said before, they steal the show at our interdisciplinary neuroscience meetings.

The top:

Rank Specialty Score
1 occupational med 47
2 psychiatry 46
3 preventive med 46
4 physical med & rehabilitation 46
5 med oncology 46
6 hematology 45
7 nephrology 45
8 general internal med 45

and bottom:

27 pulmonology 36
28 thoracic surgery 36
29 radiology 35
30 plastic surgery 35
31 otolaryngology 35
32 ophthalmology 35
33 nuclear med 35
34 gastroenterology 34
35 anesthesiology 34
36 cardiology 34

of my list. My career choice came down to IM/nephrology vs Psychiatry. Looks like I chose right by 1 point. 😉

 

[Smilemaker100]

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If you have a genuine passion 😍 for what you do, the money will flow through eventually regardless of what your passion is. Besides, the job pays in more than one form or another (ie. appreciation by virtue of helping someone and having the patient thank you for your services) . I hope to transmit my enthusiasm for my profession as an attending sometime this fall or upcoming winter. 😀

Psychiatrists are one of the most needed specialists in these modern hectic times! I really admire what you guys have to go through. I even admit to being slightly jealous. 😉 Psychiatry seems like one of the most challenging health careers as everything isn't in black and white. The patients aren't always appreciative either. The field has known leaps and bounds in the development of more therapeutically effective psychotropic medications in the last couple of decades. There is also more public awareness on mental disorders and the public is slowly starting to be less judgemental towards patients afflicted with those conditions (at least much more than the past). Pat yourselves on the back ! 👍 🙂

Stop comparing your salaries with other professionals and focus on getting your job well done!

 

[sga430]

i am doing a radio posting now and I am so jealous of those radio residents who like radio. i wish i liked radio but i dont.

there are plenty of ways to make half decent $ in psych. u can go into child (even if u dont like child psych but if u like psych it wont be too bad.)

i guess the grass is greener on the other side. those stuck doing what they dont like wish they did something they did. those doing psych or some other lower paying speciality wish they did something that paid more.