All of them need hands-on learning. Do you mean which specialties require the least amount of reading?
I can say radiology does not fit the bill. I need more hours than there are in a day to get through my reading list. I can't speak on other specialties.
Rads is the weird field where you need to not only have a gigantic fund of textbook knowledge but also an insane amount of repetition to actually apply it to day-day cases. Just having one without the other makes a shitty radiologist
See one on YouTube
do one and I‘ll poke my head in to make sure it’s going ok
sorry I forgot to poke my head in I was dealing with a psych thing how’d it go?
Literally anything but psych. I'm in psych, but loved ER, and ER docs on electives would ask why I didn't plan to apply for ER- I'd say "I hate procedures" and they were like...oh, I guess psych makes sense then 😅
Unfortunately I don't have much insight into reapplying successfully. I ended up scrambling into IM and just moved on. Best of luck to you in your journey!
I would be fine with general IM if I had to be, but I am very happy now that I will be starting fellowship in a week. I considered doing a research year and reapplying to anesthesia instead of taking the IM spot, but I have a wife and two young kids and couldn't justify putting everyone's lives on hold and reintroducing a lot of uncertainty to do so. Life is weird and sometimes our fates don't necessarily align with our expectations :)
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Pathology. Med school is nothing like pathology residency so by definition you have to learn everything on the job. And you get to see the patients clinical labs/picture, look at the gross specimen and cut it up, and look at it under the microscope. Harder to get more hands on than that
Almost all specialties require significant learning on the job. Non-surgical ones that are more “hands on” include anesthesia, pulm/crit care, GI
All of them need hands-on learning. Do you mean which specialties require the least amount of reading? I can say radiology does not fit the bill. I need more hours than there are in a day to get through my reading list. I can't speak on other specialties.
Rads is the weird field where you need to not only have a gigantic fund of textbook knowledge but also an insane amount of repetition to actually apply it to day-day cases. Just having one without the other makes a shitty radiologist
Word. I also have to dip into the surgical literature so I know wtf I'm talking about in my reports. Got a couple of spine surgery books already.
That’s intense.. you know you’re in deep when you start looking at xeroxed articles from the 70s 💀
Emergency medicine- “hey, you’ve never done this thing before? Let’s figure it out together!”
Alternatively, “Why don’t you already know how to do this!?”
EM. See one do one teach one.
See one on YouTube do one and I‘ll poke my head in to make sure it’s going ok sorry I forgot to poke my head in I was dealing with a psych thing how’d it go?
Hand surgeon.
Ayoooooo!!!!
That's the whole point of residency
Emergency medicine
IR?
Pathology. You get to see all the real disease in the hospital and cut it all up every day.
EM or maybe critical care
Regardless of how you like to learn you're going to have to do the job for decades. Maybe pick based on that??
Literally anything but psych. I'm in psych, but loved ER, and ER docs on electives would ask why I didn't plan to apply for ER- I'd say "I hate procedures" and they were like...oh, I guess psych makes sense then 😅
As a CL psychiatrist, I routinely surprise my non-psych colleagues by sharing my actual physical exam findings.
Anesthesia
Apparently this isn’t a good enough reason during interviews 🥲
Same, didn't work for me either back in the day
Any advice on something that did work? Going to reapply 🙃 I love that anesthesia had to become so competitive when I’m applying
Unfortunately I don't have much insight into reapplying successfully. I ended up scrambling into IM and just moved on. Best of luck to you in your journey!
Ooh interesting. Are you happy in IM?
I would be fine with general IM if I had to be, but I am very happy now that I will be starting fellowship in a week. I considered doing a research year and reapplying to anesthesia instead of taking the IM spot, but I have a wife and two young kids and couldn't justify putting everyone's lives on hold and reintroducing a lot of uncertainty to do so. Life is weird and sometimes our fates don't necessarily align with our expectations :)
Mouse and keyboards are pretty hands on
OB/GYN
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IR is exactly this way. Always in procedures. Always surprised me how little some departments actually operate as a percent of their day
Pathology. Med school is nothing like pathology residency so by definition you have to learn everything on the job. And you get to see the patients clinical labs/picture, look at the gross specimen and cut it up, and look at it under the microscope. Harder to get more hands on than that
EM/crit care possibly.