What r u gonna specialize in ?

[pakidoc]

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after reading a lot about medical school curriculums it seems that during the 3rd year and 4th year med students have rotations in different areas such as:

Radiology
Radiation oncology
Internal medicine
Surgury
Cardiology
Dermatology
Endocrinology
Neurology
Gastroenterology
General Medicine
Hematology-Oncology
Infectious Disease
Rheumatology
Orthopedic surgury
Emergency Medicine
Geriatrics
Pediatrics
Obstetrics/Gyn
Family practice

... I may have missed some

Then, you have to choose one of the above for residency. Which one are you gonna choose? Reasons?

 

[MWillie]

Dermatology, good money good hours. Sell Botox. That is all.

 

[Jeffy]

the butt one

 

[Daichi Katase]

hmmmm....Cardiology

 

[MWillie]

I think cardiology, etc... are internal medicine subspecialties, thus no residency exists for them.

 

[Assembler]

Gas (aka Anesthesiology)

 

[Daichi Katase]

I think cardiology, etc... are internal medicine subspecialties, thus no residency exists for them.

True. But eventually cardiology. 🙂

 

[cardsurgguy]

pediatric cardiac surgery

 

[USCTex]

pediatric cardiac surgery

I second that 🙂
Here's to a five yr general surg residency and a two to three year fellowship...cept now they've approved a thoracic surgery residency (finally), maybe that'll be common by the time I graduate...assuming i get in

 

[cardsurgguy]

I second that
Here's to a five yr general surg residency and a two to three year fellowship...cept now they've approved a thoracic surgery residency (finally), maybe that'll be common by the time I graduate...assuming i get in

yeah, and that's if you go the short route in a residency program without much research gen surg 5, ct surg 2, and ped ct fellowship 1; it could be 3-4 years longer in residencies with more research

I haven't been keeping up with the merger of general surgery and CT surgery into a 3 and 3 (6 year total) as opposed to the 5 and 2 (7 year) like the way it is now; only 1 year, but hey, we'll take it
so they have actually approved it?? 👍

 

[cardsurgguy]

and by the way, I think this is USC's year, but no way 35-17, Oklahoma isn't going down that easy...

 

[jonesn]

Dream science and neurotechnology research 😀

 

[Cerberus]

I am interested in:

Surgery
Rads
Gas

 

[abraxas20]

Pediatric Palliative Care

 

[Fermata]

Call me cynical but it's still too early to tell.

 

[myfavred]

after reading a lot about medical school curriculums it seems that during the 3rd year and 4th year med students have rotations in different areas such as:

Radiology
Radiation oncology
Internal medicine
Surgury
Cardiology
Dermatology
Endocrinology
Neurology
Gastroenterology
General Medicine
Hematology-Oncology
Infectious Disease
Rheumatology
Orthopedic surgury
Emergency Medicine
Geriatrics
Pediatrics
Obstetrics/Gyn
Family practice

... I may have missed some

Then, you have to choose one of the above for residency. Which one are you gonna choose? Reasons?

Geriatrics

And you are the person who took the name I wanted.

 

[Handyman2Doc]

ortho surg or EM.

 

[Avenue Q]

I for sure want pediatrics, and maybe ped EM, international medicine, or hem-onc, but I'm not really sure yet...

 

[Avenue Q]

Peds - ID or endocrinology

At my first visit to my ped endocrinologist when i was a kid i asked her why she wanted to specialize in it (because i was a dork as a kid, and was figuring out my specialty even then). she asked why, and i said "it's just so random." she didn't like me after that.

Ped endo is really cool though, really rare (almost as rare as ped rheumatology)...

 

[Agent Splat]

Pretty sure I want to do emergency.

 

[Whisker Barrel Cortex]

Call me cynical but it's still too early to tell.

This man has it right.

 

[neuropower]

like everyone else, i assume i'll change my mind a million times.
i can actually *see* myself doing so many different things, you know? it's hard to accept that you just have to pick one and go with it. for that reason, i may end up going for something with a broad focus like internal medicine, family practice, or pediatrics...but then again, becoming an expert in one thing opens up a lot of interesting opportunities for research.

i was reading atul gawande's complications last night and the chapter about pain made anesthesiology sound really challenging and interesting. (the one after that about nausea was contagious, i've felt sick since then! good book though...everyone should read it)

but i usually tell people i'm interested in neurology and psychiatry.

 

[lehavre]

Something that's not too challenging,makes decent money and gives me my afternoons off so I can play video games and golf.

 

[Treg]

Transplant surgery (abdominal)

Spent a lot of time with docs in various specialties related to my research interests, and after scrubbing at my first few transplants I knew that I could do nothing else.

Treg (nearly 40 by the time I am an attending, but I will have a job I love!)

 

[DubZteR]

still a bit early to tell like others have pointed out but here they are tentatively in no particular order:

Opth
Plastics
Derm
Card/Thoraic Surg

 

[rockstar2525]

Call me cynical but it's still too early to tell.

WHAT"S WRONG WITH YOU? You don't know what you're going to be doing ten years from now? Your neurosis is at about a 2, I need you at a 10. I suggest you spend some more time on these boards to increase your worry level. 😉

 

[UCLAstudent]

Ob/Gyn. If not that, peds.

 

[Jason110]

Rads

 

[liverotcod]

I was all like, "Emergency Medicine," but now I'm starting to be more like, "Radiation Oncology." Next week, who knows.

 

[nairay]

I usually say neurology or psychiatry because of my neuro background, but my other interests lie with radiology or anesthesiology (i wouldn't mind the regular hours with rads). Yesterday, a musculoskeletal radiologist did Grand Rounds and went over several case studies in radiology - they were cases found at NIH and he didn't know what the Drs dx was until after he presented his reasoning. It was really interesting how he used the different imaging methods to arrive at a diagnosis.

Of course, all that can change and I could go into something totally different, like forensic pathology. who knows! but the journey there will be exciting 🙂

 

[rayzer]

ortho

"nurse, scalpel please"

 

[neoncandle]

I work in the ER now and I love it. I'll keep my options open, but I am going to make sure to get the grades to do that so at least I can if I still want to.

 

[adamj61]

Surgery or radiology...something hands on. But then again, I want to see what I am good at, so anything but family/internal medicine.

 

[EpointH]

I'm thinking peds --> neonatology. I worked in a NICU for a summer and it was amazing...extremely difficult, but amazing.

 

[PBMaxx]

As of now I am torn between Emergency Medicine and Oncology.

I had a buddy who swore up and down that he was going to be an orthopedic surgeon and is now a second year neurology resident, so you never know.

 

[liverotcod]

You don't get many pre-meds who are excited about primary care (except maybe the peds folks) but about half us will be doing it. Interesting.

 

[BlueMagpie]

Neurology or Allergy...I think..

I'm definitely going to end up doing a fellowship

 

[MechE]

Gas
ER
Rads

...but it's really early in the game, so who knows.

 

[GATORade]

It's still Waaaaaay to early to say! With that being said, Interventional Cardiology for sure. 🙄

 

[Dr. Starostik]

Ophthalmology and then a subspecialty in Pediatric Ophthalmology 🙂

 

[AWhitehair]

You don't get many pre-meds who are excited about primary care (except maybe the peds folks) but about half us will be doing it. Interesting.

This is very true!

As of right now, I love emergency medicine, but we'll see when the time comes to choose.

 

[Brain]

Medical epidemiology. I want to work at the special pathogens branch at the CDC so I can put on the space suit when there's an outbreak of something nasty.

 

[futuremsfdoc]

infectious diseases and/or public health
radiation oncology
plastic surgery

that's what i'm thinking for now, but we'll see what my strengths really best allow me to do in a few years.

 

[lulubean]

infectious diseases and/or public health
radiation oncology
plastic surgery

that's what i'm thinking for now, but we'll see what my strengths really best allow me to do in a few years.

from infectious disease to plastic surgery??? wow, thats going from one end of the spectrum to the other!

i'm going for OB/GYN - anyone else?

 

[G0S2]

Hematology-Oncology
Adult or pediatric???

Pathology

 

[futuremsfdoc]

from infectious disease to plastic surgery??? wow, thats going from one end of the spectrum to the other!

i'm going for OB/GYN - anyone else?

yeah....actually i probably worded that a little badly. i meant reconstructive plastic surgery (like operation smile) or facial trauma reconstruction. haha, not breast implants and all that jazz. so i'll decide by figuring out whether i like procedural stuff or not.

 

[IAMS]

In the next 25 years, incidence of age-onset conditions like Alzheimers, osteoporosis and other debilitation disease will increase up to 10x. Not to mention we'll be losing a large segment of baby-boomer doctors. More of us will be working in geriatrics than you might expect.

 

[drguy22]

pediatric hematology-oncology
or
internal med
or
cardiology

 

[nicholonious]

card surgery...what is it with this specialty, it seems to suck people in with its intrigue.

 

[Davina3000]

As of now, I'm thinking ob/gyn.

I've actually always been drawn to primary care, but lately I've been realizing that I may want to pursue a more academic path. There are so many amazing fellowships out there and the overachiever in me is wondering if that wouldn't be a better fit. 😉