Who are the most intelligent doctors in the hospital?

[waterbottle10]

The answer is obvious... Internal Medicine! How can you even begin to practice good medicine as a IM subspecialist (cards, gi, heme-onc) if you aren't a great internist? Internists are the only doc who truly have to know something about nearly every area of aspect of medical care from pathophys to dx, to management! and much much more.

Actually you are describing anesthesiologists. They act as every doc in the OR except surgeon while at the same time having to know anesthesiology and what's going on in the surgery. They manage patients in the PACU (w often sick patients because all patients go to PACU if there's no ICU availability). And anesthesiologists as far as I know are the only ones who only need to do 1 year of crit care for fellowship instead of two for everyone else. In terms of completeness anesthesiologist fit the bill the most. Most surgeons are awful at medicine stuff and most IM docs do not know much about surgery. And most doctors in the hospital are pretty clueless about anesthesiology..

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[Siggy]

Actually you are describing anesthesiologists. They act as every doc in the OR except surgeon while at the same time having to know anesthesiology and what's going on in the surgery. They manage patients in the PACU (w often sick patients because all patients go to PACU if there's no ICU availability). And anesthesiologists as far as I know are the only ones who only need to do 1 year of crit care for fellowship instead of two for everyone else. In terms of completeness anesthesiologist fit the bill the most. Most surgeons are awful at medicine stuff and most IM docs do not know much about surgery. And most doctors in the hospital are pretty clueless about anesthesiology..

Crit Care is a 1 year fellowship for IM doctors who already have a fellowship done or are doing a fellowship in something else. It's why pulm is 2 years, but pulm/crit is 3.

 

[GeoffJ]

Dermatologists, they don't have to get up in the middle of the night. What could be smarter than that?

 

[waterbottle10]

Crit Care is a 1 year fellowship for IM doctors who already have a fellowship done or are doing a fellowship in something else. It's why pulm is 2 years, but pulm/crit is 3.

I thought it's cause it's only pulm. It's one year for gi docs??

 

[Shikima]

The smartest one? The guy who scored perfect on all 3 step exams.

 

[rokshana]

I thought it's cause it's only pulm. It's one year for gi docs??

for anyone that has done an ABIM specialty fellowship (though why someone who has done a GI fellowship then would want to do CC fellowship is beyond me).

 

[waterbottle10]

for anyone that has done an ABIM specialty fellowship (though why someone who has done a GI fellowship then would want to do CC fellowship is beyond me).

Very interesting!

 

[Winged Scapula]

Actually you are describing anesthesiologists. They act as every doc in the OR except surgeon while at the same time having to know anesthesiology and what's going on in the surgery. They manage patients in the PACU (w often sick patients because all patients go to PACU if there's no ICU availability). And anesthesiologists as far as I know are the only ones who only need to do 1 year of crit care for fellowship instead of two for everyone else. In terms of completeness anesthesiologist fit the bill the most. Most surgeons are awful at medicine stuff and most IM docs do not know much about surgery. And most doctors in the hospital are pretty clueless about anesthesiology..

Critical care is 1 year for general surgeons as well.