This entry is dedicated to the new MIR facing the choice of specialty. When you finish the race and endorse the MIR medicine felt indescribable relief, has spent 7 years of his life-6 and 1 college preparation to MIR- choose a major that will mark his lifetime, but although he has studied all, nobody has explained how to choose the most appropriate specialty to develop as professionals and as people. Although some universities offer courses targeting most of them are purely theoretical and informative, none of them talk the fundamental issue which is summarized in two questions : How much would you dedicate your life to the profession? "Vouchers for the specialty you've chosen? Perhaps we should add others but not of orientation but of opportunities such as: Do I get the number to do what I want and where I? If I can not choose what I want I will stay close to home? -Understand how to choose thinking about bonding and non-professional.
I have my own medical classification: "Those who punctured, which cut and those that do not puncture or cut," "To those who are dying and that patients are not dying" , "physicians who work standing or sitting," "which is uncombed and not unkempt", "games and the trenches." Everyone who applies will be defined more. If you like going out with the parting of the hair or the curls intact, blood stains, gypsum or other fluids, without a dry throat, without a heavy heart, without levarte work home: Choose a specialty room.
How are you feeling in your flesh, the choice is not an easy issue as you play you in your future career and your personal achievement much, remember that you choose a profession, which if taken seriously, requires a dedication than most and is an emotional drain of the other, are completely: do not forget that unless it is your main objective, not going to be rich, you can live well, but always marked by the guards, the study and problems of your patients.
As I am a veteran with 28 years of medical practice and at least 40 residents who have made me think I can say on the subject. If we choose the square as a study of prognostic factors related to an appropriate choice we can study the variables involved: specialty, place of work, guards, research, career, income, professional opportunities, hard work, charging adds emotionally as they deem appropriate and sort them by score. It is free in that you really appreciate the effort and dedication, be cautious in assessing emotional exhaustion related to your choice: you know yourself better than anyone in this regard. Any subject is interesting but you must choose one for which you are endowed not you want or you have opportunity to do for number. Once we have the variables with more weight acts accordingly.
If you clear the specialty is much easier to take your number compare it with other years awards and you get an idea of \u200b\u200bwhether it is viable. If it is, and want to do close to home: visit the nearest hospital to your home. Talk to residents older with no guardian with the head of service, these try to sell the bike. On all questions of compliance with program specialty rotations.
Tip: If you doubt among medical or surgical specialty medical Singles: it is more likely to guess right, you can also choose digestive, cardiology and radiology with some intervention. Another tip-I know that you disagree with someone but it is my opinion, family medicine or primary care is often the choice of doctors more "vocational" who value the closeness and treatment with patient sophistication and depersonalization of hospital medicine. So far so good but the reality is that in the health centers on imaginary patients, over and drowns the bureaucracy and lack time to do the job well, when you take a few years do not know if you're a doctor or health controller glued to a computer- and without the salary of air traffic controllers.
If your interest is to have a life close to your environment and without too much hassle, no-resident guards always will do but a deputy or may not be located, and you have a family and a more or unconventional: Choose a specialty comfortable, no guards and close to your home. Or put another way, if you want to lead a life similar to that of your friends who have a medical profession do not choose the specialties of "trenches"-those who eat more brown-general surgery, trauma, emergency medicine, intensive anesthesia , pediatrics, gynecology and oncology.
If the deal with patients, or decrepitude and disease is not for you choose a specialty of "living" laboratory, pathology, conventional radiology, epidemiology ....
If you deal well with cancer patients, terminals or complicated not going hospitals, operating rooms, emergency, crowds of people waiting to be treated at emergency rooms, family talks with disgruntled or exalted, the impositions of hospital management, the daily struggle to try to do the job despite of "organization": Dedicated to the management and end up being a "friend" of your classmates.