Recent content by shouldigomd

Just my opinion going through my own training. Keep in mind the definition of community and academic can get a little blurry and like most things it really depends on the people you interact and your own personal effort. Everyone has their own motives for doing things. Just one or two people can...

These threads are crazy in my opinion but I understand it is hard to get tangible info about these places. The quality of many programs varies tremendously with the faculty. Even people who sub-specialized and went to a different program for every step of the journey still only know 4-5 programs...

There are horror stories with just about anything you look at when it comes to medicine. Every hospital has its own personality, politics, etc etc even if they are all under the same umbrella. That goes for corporations like HCA or academic centers. I think you should reach out to some of the...

Thats because you are in the northeast perhaps? Plenty of high IC volume positions out there if you aren't going to a saturated market.

There is too much variation in salary to get caught up comparing apples to oranges. I am an IC so I won't speak on behalf of GI but there are IC's making 400K/yr and IC's making 2.5 million/yr.

Ummm yes?

Pretty much everything you mentioned in your initial post is program / hospital specific. The demands on fellows is extremely variable across programs / hospitals for both GI and Cards. If you are at a big liver TXP center dealing with crashing cirrhotic bleeds... that can lead to a very busy...

I think its a question out of your hands. At least in my experience most jobs and subspecialty fellowships require you to take the test. If you plan on doing gen cards you may be limited in job opportunities as a result. I guess you would have to discuss this with your future employer if your...

I wouldn't for several reasons. You / the hospital probably wont get reimbursed. You assume liability. It is outside your scope of practice. Nobody cares if you are trying to do the right thing.

You are right. My thought process was that if the 1 view they give you shows a normal EF they can't take points off if you call it as such but who knows!

Fortunately I passed and did nearly 2SD above avg Day 2 without any clue what they wanted thus take what I say with a grain of salt. On EKGs I coded as much as I could based on the concrete rules of EKG and had the mindset that every vignette was trying to tell you / test you on something...

I guess its Tuesday and nothing so seems like it will be post holiday season ....

Why would switching to a better school be a bad thing?

Sounds sketchy. Just get hospitalist LORs rather than risking a sub par cardiology LOR.

I don't think anyone knows the answer because ultimately it comes down to the decisions of a few people (PD / faculty / sometimes fellows) which vary from place to place. This is just my opinion based on my experience but I think being a hospitalist / moonlighting is the least helpful. In my...