Is it worth it? Are there job opportunities outside of academics?
I’m a non-traditional student starting medical school this coming fall after 10 years in education. I am fortunate to have multiple admissions offers and am trying to decide where to attend. One of the programs I have been accepted to is an accelerated program for family medicine (3yrs of med school and then guaranteed placement with affiliated FM residency). This would be a huge financial savings and enable me to be debt free pretty quickly after residency, while the other schools are considered higher ranking overall as well as for peds and primary care, but would (likely) be more expensive.
I know from my time in the education world that I genuinely love working with kids and families, and family medicine and pediatrics both appeal to me as does med-peds. I am most interested in primary care and working with underserved communities, most likely rural.
Though I've been able to shadow with both peds and FM some, I would love to get some insights from others in primary care about their day to day to help me make my decision on where to attend.
With that background here are my questions: What was your path to residency? What is your daily patient load like? If you work at an FQHC or in an underserved area, what is your patient population like? Do you see many peds patients, or do you mostly do just adult medicine? If you could go back and change anything about your career path, what would it be and why? What do you love about your job? What do you hate about your job? If you were to specialize in anything else, what would it be? Please feel free to share any additional details about "why family medicine" or sage advice from further down the road.
(Apologies for cross-posting)
Aspiring pediatrician and I wanted to know if it’s difficult for general pediatricians to find jobs in their city of choice specifically New York, San Diego or Los Angelos or really any major city? And maybe something you love about what you do and one thing you hate :) if you have the time !
Specifically looking for M3 and M4's to respond.
If you're stuck maybe think: If you could look back, what would you have liked to do first?
Edit Specifically clarifying: I am starting my M3 and my first rotation is an elective.
Hello all! I am wondering if there is a chance for me to match into med peds next year. As shown I have a very low step one, but I had a medical condition that is now much better. I only passed IM and high passed peds.
Lots of experience with adults with developmental disabilities, some peds research.
Have a med peds program here, PD said improvement in step 2 would help.
My goal is primary care in urban/suburban setting. Would apply peds categorical backup and plan on A/I fellowship if matched in peds.
What is a safe number of invites to match in this season? Us-Img scores 23s 24s
does anyone have any quizlets they found helpful when preparing for the exit out HESI?
also, quizlets for PEDS and med surg HESI would also be appreciated!!
Hi All,
I am a third year DO student in the NE. I recently finished my peds rotation and loved working with the little kiddos! I also started my year with one of my IM rotations and completely loved it as well. My question is, what is the advantage of a Med-Peds residency compared to doing just IM or just Peds? I understand that it gives you the option to do fellowships for adults or children but thats about it? I have not found any singular jobs where you are utilizing BOTH the Meds AND Peds portion of your training. From what Ive read, it seems like most people either do Med stuff or Peds stuff after, but not a combo. So in essence, to my limited view, it seems like the only advantage of Med Peds is that it gives you another 4yrs to decide which population you prefer working with in the end since I can't ind any jobs where you are acutely working with both at the same time? Please correct me if I am mistaken or blind. Just trying to start building my list of applications for ERAS coming up next cycle. Thank you!!
I've been a nurse for 11 years. Started out in adult med surg for the first 8 months and transitioned into dialysis, I did that another 7 years with adults, both inpatient and outpatient. Last almost 3 years I've been doing pediatric medsurg. There aren't a ton of high paying pedi assignments right now, would it be inappropriate for me to apply for adult med surg positions. I'm pretty sure I could handle it and wouldn't apply for anything more advanced like Tele or IMU.
Just started intern year. Am very happy with my choice, but can't help but feel like I am going to be constantly behind the categorical residents in terms of experience. Will I ever be able to overcome the gap?
I got a 242 on Step 1 and 241 on Step 2. I'm worried about the score difference because most people usually do better on step 2. I felt horrible after taking the exam and expected much worse so I'm glad it was a 241 but I'm just worried about how that looks to programs since it's usually an upward trend. All the med-peds faculty at my school aay they don't care about scores anymore and view applicants holistically, but I feel like that's always BS. Anyone have any thoughts?
Title says it all. I'm a non-us img, I've seen the 2020 match report data. But any takes on this? Thanks a lot!
Hi guys , I’m looking for some advice for a Med student planning on doing a peds Sub I in a program that has a peds residency. What are some things they should brush up on before the rotation and any advice for them during the rotation to help them potentially secure an interview and maybe even a residency spot at the program? Thanks in advance.
Thank you for taking the time to read my post. I just graduated nursing school May 2021. I was just offered a position in the NICU and also in Peds Med/Surg. I am having a really difficult time deciding between the two. If anyone has any insight or can help compare the two, I would be so appreciative. Thank you so much!
Hello all. I am an M3 (soon to be M4) interested in med-peds and cardiology. However, I am unsure as to which one would help me with my goals. I love the pediatric patient population and while on my PHM rotation, I met with a lot of families and adolescent aged patients with various congenital conditions that were concerned about aging out of their pediatrician's care and having to navigate the adult medicine world. This made me want to pursue med-peds vs just pediatrics. However, now that i've done other rotations, I realize that I really want to work in the cath lab. I'm a former cath lab tech so I have some knowledge of the procedures that adult interventional cardiologists perform. I'm more interested in the structural heart type procedures such as valvuloplasties, transcatheter valve replacements, etc and have read new articles about utilizing this technology for the pediatric patient population. So I guess my question is, if during residency, I still decide that I want to pursue interventional cardiology but still want to work with patients with congenital heart defects (super niche, I know), what would be the best pathway? Also, I understand that pediatric interventional cardiology is super niche and the job market does not have the growth that its adult counterpart has.
Additionally, what IS ACHD? I googled it different ways including "ACHD Fellowship" "Adult Congenital Heart Defects Fellowship" "What does an ACHD doctor DO?". Do ACHD Board certified physicians do any hybrid procedures? Or is that only left to the interventionalists (pediatric and/or adult)? I'm so confused.
tl;dr: I love pediatrics but i want to work in the cath lab, with a particular interest in structural heart stuff, and want to have a job when I graduate fellowship. What's the most efficient training pathway for me to fix hearts in the cath lab without spending forever in training?
med-peds --> adult cards ---> IC +/- ACHD fellowship
Med-peds --> peds cards ---> beg for 4th year interventional training year --> ACHD
med-peds--> adult or peds cards --> ACHD and see if someone will let me into their cath lab
I saw the previous posts on pediatric IC vs ACHD but it didn't really clear up my question. Any advice is helpful! Thank you in advance!
Is this a feasible career route? Does anybody know someone that practices on both peds and adult CC floors? I imagine it would be a 4 year med/peds residency followed by a 4 year combined residency, so the training would be long. Also it's probably a very niche area as a quick google search only led me to one program at the University of Pittsburgh.
context: I am a first year med student and extremely interested in having some sort of hybrid practice with my future career. On one hand I am interested in FM, EM, and med/peds because I would like to see all age ranges. On another I have considered routes such as EM/CC, anesthesia/CC because they may offer the ability to split time in departments and I'm also interested in critical care. While searching some threads about choosing med/peds over FM, I read a handful of comments mentioning this possibility.
Just finished my CF in a hospital with adults. I‘m not 100% sold on being an adult/medical SLP forever, but I don’t want my next job to be a complete switch just yet necessarily. I know peds SLPs can PRN at hospitals to dabble in the medical world, but how could I do something similar in the peds world? Thank in advance for your inputs! :)
I'd like to ask for some insight from residents/attendings who are in any of the above specialties. I'm a married student with a child. My spouse stays home with our child and we've been talking about what specialty I should apply to next year. Here is the conundrum: we've moved *a lot* for medical school and each time we've had to uproot my spouse and child so we can stay together. I know it's been hard on them. My spouse told me today that they'd rather we try for a residency close to our hometown (which has a few within an hour's commute) but I want to try for Med-Peds which is not close at all (closest is 2 hours so not a feasible drive.)
Has anyone faced this situation before? Do I do what makes my family happy and end up a little less happy in my career? They are my priority, I just don't want to look back and think I made a bad decision.
Thanks.
Very interested to hear your perspectives!
I’m an MS3 who’s only been on a few rotations but feeling overwhelmed by trying to figure out what I want to do. So far, I feel like I enjoy every rotation I have been on. We have a doctor in my family (dad) so regularly have guests over who talk a lot about their lifestyles and such. One of the guests was talking about two med-peds doctors, good friends of his in residency, who are now making apparently tons of bank. It sounded like they do a mix of inpatient and outpatient. For the med-peds docs here I was wondering how this is achieved and whether you liked the route you took, what a day to day is like.
Hey! I am a 3rd year DO student trying to gauge my competitiveness for med peds residency. My transcript consists of mostly A's, Ive honored half of my 3rd year rotations, my step score is 250+, but I have absolutely 0 research and little extracurricular stuff. Im from a large city so my goal is to match at a program in a large city. Is this doable for me? Or should I stick to just applying to IM or Peds separately? Thanks!
Curious what's going to happen jobs-wise. As a peds trainee and the growing prevalence of obesity, hyperlipidemia and hypertension, it'd have been lovely to have some medicine training so I don't have to refer to endocrine, cardiology and nephrology respectively (seriously, this is what our attendings tell us to do in peds... although at times rightfully so because of primary underlying conditions).
Non us img. Step1 231 Research experiences mixed with Im and peds. Yog 2019 December Awating step2 ck results.. step2 cs pass. I cant find any programs with good acceptance for non us imgs. Can anyone suggest?
Hello,
M3 here. I’m curious how scheduling works for Peds hospitalists. I know many IM hospitalists work 7 on 7 off. Do peds hospitalists work the same way? What is the salary like (bigger cities)? How many weeks per Year do they work? Also, is there time to do other things (like volunteer in community, teach, research etc)?
Do Med/Peds hospitalists also work 7 on/7 off. I’m in the midwest (med peds heavy) and we have some attendings that work 1 week IM and 1 week Peds. How common is this elsewhere? Also what does compensation look like?
Lastly, what does life like a Peds EM doc look like? Is it shift based with 12-15 shifts/mo like regular EM? And any idea on compensation?
I’m interested in Peds/maybe MedPeds but I also want to be able to do other things and I’m wondering what types of variety is available. Not really a clinic person.
Thanks in advanced!
Hello! I am a ped med surg float nurse and I am transferring to the ped ICU float soon. We have a general PICU, respiratory PICU, CTICU and a few NICU's that I can float to but I less the NICU's and more the PICU's. I have been a nurse for about 3 years all in the float pool. I am excited and terrified. What advice do you all have for me transferring to the ICU?
I'll admit I'm biased as I'm involved in this, but this seems like a great opportunity to get the "feel" of programs before even submitting your applications.
The first region (Western) will be having its presentation this Friday, 9/11.
Link here. (this will be updated with other locations)
For tonight's happy hour and presentations, link here.
I'm a current MS0 who will be entering first year of med school next fall. I know this is a pretty specific question (this also may not be the correct sub to post, sorry if so!) and my opinion on specialties is subject to change in the next few years, but the idea of being a pediatric oncologist has been floating in my mind for a long while and I think it's where I want to end up. From my understanding onc is an IM fellowship and peds onc is a peds fellowship. I was wondering if anyone could tell me if there would be a benefit to going the med peds route as opposed to only peds if this is my hopeful future career?
Hi! I'm a 4th year IMG through a Caribbean school. Scored 20* on step 1 but have found such a love for med-peds. It's really what I want to do. I'm coming up on step 2 and planning to do well and study well for it (scores were good going into step 1, low score due to personal life problems).
what can i do to really stand out and have my application considered? what are medpeds cut offs? how can i be more competitive?
I have a 6 year old that I need to take quite a few crushed pills for the next few months. Applesauce worked once.... But the second time I tried it the kiddo knew the trick and spit up half of it.
I don't usually get peds patients and this is the exact reason I chose not to go into peds....
Please give me your tricks!
MS3 who's most likely going to apply to med peds. Looking for some insight as to which programs are well known for this specialty and possibly some things I should look out for when I do start applying? Thanks!
I’m a non-traditional student starting medical school this coming fall after 10 years in education. I am fortunate to have multiple admissions offers and am trying to decide where to attend. One of the programs I have been accepted to is an accelerated program for family medicine (3yrs of med school and then guaranteed placement with affiliated FM residency). This would be a huge financial savings and enable me to be debt free pretty quickly after, while the other schools are considered higher ranking overall as well as for peds and primary care, but would be more expensive.
I know from my time in the education world that I love working with kids and families, and family medicine and pediatrics both appeal to me as does med-peds. I am most interested in primary care and working with underserved communities, most likely rural.
Though I've been able to shadow with both peds and FM some, I would love to get some insights from others in primary care about their day to day to help me make my decision on where to attend.
With that background here are my questions: If you are in primary care what was your path to residency? What is your daily patient load like? If you work at an FQHC or in an underserved area, what is patient population like? If you could go back and change anything about your career path, what would it be and why? What do you love about your job? What do you hate about your job? If you were to specialize in anything else, what would it be? Please feel free to share any additional details about "why peds".
Non us img. Step1 231 Research experiences mixed with Im and peds. Yog 2019 December Awating step2 ck results.. step2 cs pass. I cant find any programs with good acceptance for non us imgs. Can anyone suggest?
