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What specialities are you currently interested in pursuing a career in?
Interview answer: primary care
Real life answer: radiology 😎
Family medicine or OB-Gyn...honestly can't see myself doing anything else but who knows what will happen in med school. Maybe I'll really hate delivering babies![]()
Peds heme/onc, Peds ID, Peds CC, anesthesia. It'll be interesting to see what I end up liking!
First goal is med school though. The chips can fall where they may after that.
why not peds anesthesia
but babies are cool 😱
Interview answer: primary care
Real life answer: pathology 😎
Obviously, there are many different specialties outside of primary care. But is this really what medical schools aim to produce, PCPs? And how you should answer in an interview? Of course not everyone can be a PCP and not everyone really wants to go into that
Milkman: there's a big fat shortage of primary care kinda folk for a handful of reasons; pay isn't as great, and you get truckloads of hypertension, diabetes, and the other kinds of things you'd get from a patient base of aging boomers. For that reason, there's an impression among pre-meds that it sounds noble in an interview to say that you want to be the world's greatest humanitarian and be a primary care pediatrician in a rural Montana walk-in clinic marching fifteen miles in the snow barefoot each day to work.
I hope AdComs don't look at me and think I'm lying about actually wanting to go into Peds//PC. Of course, anything can change in 5-7 years, but other than ER, I don't have an interest in other specialties.
ya'll make my life harder!
I actually do want to go into primary care or emergency medicine. I am really hoping that admissions committees believe me based on my previous community service work and other activities. I am well aware that there are probably other applicants who dishonestly say that they want to go into primary care to match the mission statement of a particular school. 🙁
😛👍They are! Although I'm more interested in the mom when we're talking medicine.
Me too 🙁 Now I am worried they'll think I'm BSing...O well
Anesthesia.
He's the only guy who gets to sit down during surgery.
But I'm keeping my mind open.
Interview answer: primary care
Real life answer: pathology 😎
ID.
It's the greatest. Period.
What I could never do:
1.) surgery- I don't have the temperament
2.) optho- I like a variety of cases
3.) urology- eh..
4.) ob/ gyn- late night deliveries and high malpractice
5.) oncology- too depressing
6.) peds - the kids-- no kid likes the doctor
Other specialties I know too little about to make a judgement