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Originally Posted by BigRedBeta
Did you ever figure out where your attending went?
What interests you about Surg and Family? Do you have an interest in eventually ending up in a rural community?
When do you start putting together your 4th year schedules? Are you going to try to do a surgery sub-I? Any away rotations? Anything you're REALLY excited to do for a month?
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No, sorry I stopped working with him before I got to ask him! I'm with a new attending now after they found out I wasn't getting that much inpatient experience. I'm with a doc now who's triple boarded in Medicine/Critical Care/Pulmonology. Wowsers!
I have things that I love about both FM and Surgery. I like the continuity and relationships that are formed with patients in FM, but I think the OR and procedures in general are fun. I don't like that FM is all outpatient (I get bored doing one thing or being in one place for too long), but I hate surgeons' hours... especially if I have any hopes of having a life/family outside of medicine one day.
We're in the process of putting together our schedules now, focusing mostly on the few required 4th year rotations. Our sub-I's and electives will be scheduled within the next month or two. And of course, no away rotations want to hear from you until the summer. I'm not sure what sub-I's I'll do next summer/fall, but I'm avoiding surgery until I'm pretty sure that's what I want to do. I have been so indecisive lately. I don't know what I want to do when 3rd year ends! It seems like this point in life has come rather quickly - so many decisions to make in a short period of time...