Would you recommend dermatology or infectious disease?

[Peeshee]

Hello,
Would you recommend taking a dermatology or infectious disease elective if I'll be applying to family med. residencies?
I'm leaning towards dermatology bec. I guess I'll be exposed to ID during internal med.
What do you think?

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[seattledoc]

derm derm derm

 

[lowbudget]

Derm. My attending told me to take as many samples as I wanted.

 

[PACtoDOC]

Do both!! Thats what I am doing. I did derm in 3rd year and will do ID now in 4th year.

 

[DOtobe]

If you get a chance, do both. I did an ID rotation, and I definitely think it helped me because it helped me become more comfortable with antibiotics and which antibiotics to choose for certain infections (although it seems like ID docs D/C more antibiotics than they start!) I didn't get a chance to do derm, and I wish I would have. You will probably get to do a lot of suturing for small office procedures which FP's also do (mole removal, biopsies, etc.) which will be really helpful. (Although you get a lot of suturing during your ER rotation, as well.)