What r u gonna specialize in ?

[3rd_i]

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I just interviewed at BU Wednesday. The dean of admissions there said that of the students who start school "absolutely sure" of what they want to specialize in, 50% of them change their minds because of the exposure they get during their trainning.

But for whatever it's worth, I'm looking at pediatrics.

 

[abraxas20]

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.

Good point. I know that what I want to do is weird (as demonstrated by no one else on here wanting to do it). I don't know whether it qualifies as primary care or not.

S

 

[liverotcod]

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.

If you mean that we'll be working with an older patient population, it's probably going to practically everyone who treats adults. But I'll bet few take advantage of your observation and actually specialize in geriatrics. It's worth considering, as a practical matter!

 

[eri1092783]

Pediatric Physiatry

 

[tigress]

right now looking at emergency medicine
or maybe radiology
I'd like something with little continuity of care, but ped rheumatology is also something I'd consider

I fully expect to change my mind about 100 times during med school, though!

 

[Blake]

Quite open, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't plan on practicing surgery. Neurosurgery seems ''cool'' from what I've seen so far, but talking the other day with a neurology resident made me more intrigued about neurology and its future compared to NS. He also happened to be dead set on neurology at the beginning of med school. Like they say, we'll probably change our minds quite often, but I have a gut feeling I'll end up with my initial choice. Most fields in medicine are exciting, so I'm a winner anyway 😳

 

[Jeffy]

Pediatric Physiatry

Waaaaaay off

 

[ellia08]

Academic Medicine... specifically translational research.

In what field? oh... maybe:

1 opthalmology
2 interventional cardiology
3 dermatology (not for the hours but because the research is interesting)

also neurology and oncology look cool.

(the list isnt as random as it looks. its just linked by some of the research methods Im interested in and not by anatomy... well... I guess the first two are the anatomical sites I find most interesting. Maybe thats why they beat out neurology and oncology.)

 

[Stratus2675]

I thought I would be the only one with this, but eri beat me to it...physiatry

 

[sunUCB]

how is eri way off? do you not approve of him/her going into physiatry?

Waaaaaay off

 

[ellia08]

Best Guess: Maybe he thought it was a spelling mistake of psychiatry?

it isnt.


Physiatry = physical medicine
http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=physiatry