What if you love them both?

[seventynine]

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Specialties I mean 🙂

In my case, I am strongly passionate about both urology and radiology, would be very happy in either one, if accepted into. But I feel sad to leave the other. It's around the end of 3rd year in med school, time is running out, and I'm sleepless at the thought of missing out on a lifetime of one of them.

Does anyone else lose sleep over narrowing down to one?

 

[CatFactorial]

Wouldn't you have 4th year to figure that out too?

 

[PMPMD]

Wouldn't you have 4th year to figure that out too?

No, applications start in early fall. For competitive fields like the 2 the OP is considering, it would not be wise to apply late. Also, getting letters, doing aways, takes time and need to be planned in advance. The OP is wise to try to decide in the next month or 2.

 

[seventynine]

No, applications start in early fall. For competitive fields like the 2 the OP is considering, it would not be wise to apply late. Also, getting letters, doing aways, takes time and need to be planned in advance. The OP is wise to try to decide in the next month or 2.

You hit all of the reasons above!

 

[kautionwirez]

Here's my opinion (even though probably know this already):

Urology!

Patient interaction, surgery, good lifestyle.

If you want, you can choose to go to pediatric urology. Even more interesting cases!

Why would you want to go to rads? Do you like clinking your gold in the dark? 🙂

 

[dude1344]

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[DrSnips]

Guess I'm lucky that I hated everything but IM...

Also, the two specialties OP picked are so different...surprised he/she likes both that much. Further, I'm not sure how anyone gets enough rads exposure before 4th year to consider it as a specialty.

 

[Phyozo]

Specialties I mean 🙂

In my case, I am strongly passionate about both urology and radiology, would be very happy in either one, if accepted into. But I feel sad to leave the other. It's around the end of 3rd year in med school, time is running out, and I'm sleepless at the thought of missing out on a lifetime of one of them.

Does anyone else lose sleep over narrowing down to one?

If you really love them both the same, pick the one with the better lifestyle/pay/residency. Easy decision.

 

[SpecterGT260]

Here's my opinion (even though probably know this already):

Urology!

Patient interaction, surgery, good lifestyle.

If you want, you can choose to go to pediatric urology. Even more interesting cases!

Why would you want to go to rads? Do you like clinking your gold in the dark? 🙂

listen to this guy! I would def trust his clinical rotation experience 🙄

 

[colbgw02]

If you really love them both the same, pick the one with the better lifestyle/pay/residency. Easy decision.

This is the correct answer. If the intangibles are a wash, then use the cold, hard numbers.

 

[drizzt3117]

Guess I'm lucky that I hated everything but IM...

Also, the two specialties OP picked are so different...surprised he/she likes both that much. Further, I'm not sure how anyone gets enough rads exposure before 4th year to consider it as a specialty.

Actually it's really common for people to be deciding between IR and surgical sub-specs. I was in that boat last year as well.

Rads is a specialty you'll be exposed to in most other rotations.

 

[colbgw02]

Actually it's really common for people to be deciding between IR and surgical sub-specs. I was in that boat last year as well.

Rads is a specialty you'll be exposed to in most other rotations.

Sort of. I mean, that's sort of like saying that you're exposed to pathology because you read the Pap smear results while on OB/GYN.

The fact is that radiology does a bad job of exposing itself (tee hee) to medical students who don't actively seek exposure. I can say this because the overwhelming number of non-radiologist physicians I know don't have the first friggin' clue about the field. I assume that's because they never learned it in the first place, rather than learned it but subsequently forgot.

 

[drizzt3117]

Sort of. I mean, that's sort of like saying that you're exposed to pathology because you read the Pap smear results while on OB/GYN.

The fact is that radiology does a bad job of exposing itself (tee hee) to medical students who don't actively seek exposure. I can say this because the overwhelming number of non-radiologist physicians I know don't have the first friggin' clue about the field. I assume that's because they never learned it in the first place, rather than learned it but subsequently forgot.

I agree that most students aren't exposed to the day to day work of a radiology resident/attending, and private practice is a whole different world altogether. My point is that people quickly realize as m3s that radiology makes all the diagnoses 🙂

Something ironic is that HMS has the most stringent rads requirement of any med school (1 month required rotation with probably 60-100 hours of reading room time and some IR) but only had 4/200 go into rads this year, with two of those being md/phds from a previous class. Interesting.

 

[kautionwirez]

listen to this guy! I would def trust his clinical rotation experience 🙄

Not even! Just watched documentaries and word to mouth 🙂

As my pastor says "my opinion...."

congregation responds "....means nothing!"