What specialties have you not been exposed to?

[Jeff85]

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I was wondering which specialties you have not been exposed to much during your rotations.

 

[JacobSilge]

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation; pretty much everything else was at least a choice for an elective or sub-rotation. Obviously it is impossible to gain exposure to every medical or surgical subspecialty, but the choices are there for us.

 

[45408]

unless you do electives, most people won't get much exposure to the surgical sub-specialties (ortho, ENT, uro, plastics, neurosurg). I'm not going to have any exposure to interventional radiology, rad onc, PM&R, rheum, ID, neph, heme/onc, or a number of other specialties. I've did an elective in EM as an M3, and I'll do one in cards, path and radiology as an M4, and I've worked with pulm/GI/cards on my medicine/peds patients. I had an M3 anesthesia rotation, but the rest of my M3 courses were the usual.

 

[Rendar5]

I'm not including stuff that I've at least had enough exposure including procedure shadowing. Will include stuff like optho which I've had to consult but never actually been over there in the room while they examined patients:

Pathology, CT surg, Ortho surg, Neurosurg, Opthalmology, Urology, Interventional Radiology, Anaesthesia, Critical Care, PM&R, Oncology, radonc, Nephrology. Everything else I've had decent exposure or arranged for decent exposure (and will be getting a lot of anaesthesia and intesivist exposure during residency).

I have not done pulm, heme, GI, or ENT rotations, but had tons of pulm/heme/GI stuff during IM. And scrubbed in during an ENT surg and did consult with them a few times. This list does not include the ton of pediatric subspecialties out there.

 

[Law2Doc]

I was wondering which specialties you have not been exposed to much during your rotations.

PM&R, transplant, rad onc, uro, optho and a number of the IM subspecialties.