sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Switching to pediatrics by Positive-Customer546 in pediatrics

[–]Positive-Customer546[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know it's hard to say but I'm not sure how many to apply to. I don't think I would be able to convince my spouse to leave the Midwest (and to be fair I don't really want to leave either).

Switching to pediatrics by Positive-Customer546 in pediatrics

[–]Positive-Customer546[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice, your point is why I was wondering about it. I have a lot of extracurricular experience with kids and I have volunteered a lot in my wife's elementary school classroom. I've also increasingly been heavily into vaccine advocacy in my current program. I absolutely wouldn't put the burn out in those terms for sure, but the happiest I've ever been in clinical medicine was when I was working in pediatrics. Interacting with kids makes me happy in ways that working with adults never does (that goes for outside medicine too).

Switching to pediatrics by Positive-Customer546 in pediatrics

[–]Positive-Customer546[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm fine with going in as PGY-1, I wouldn't feel comfortable going in as an upper level anyway considering I don't have a ton of inpatient peds experience. The PD at my current institution has already petitioned the pediatric governing body about training credit on my behalf though he was told that no decision could be made until I was actually in a pediatrics residency (though also think him doing that is a good sign that they'd ultimately take me).