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Agree with Panther 100%. Residency is a "game". How to navigate the political landmines. Wish I knew how about how not to be labeled a problem resident before I got in trouble with my attending.

Mostly between Attendings, Residents, and Interns. This is a good article that talks about this dynamic. If you don't be careful you can have a bad reputation. You might even get fired if you don't be careful. The Hidden Curriculum: How to Avoid Being Labeled a Problem Resident

Decision point becomes. Noninvasive cardiology vs interventional cardiology. If you prefer noninterventional cardiology the work+salary+call schedule compared to Hospitalist job is a tough comparison. Let's not forget the opportunity cost of 3 years of Hospitalist salary vs 3 years of...

Supply and Demand. Cardiology has close to 1000 spots. It is much easier to get a fellowship but bc of saturation it is much tougher to get a job after fellowship. Wonder if cardiology fellowships should cut back spots to help out the field?

Gutonc nailed it. Get the highest Step 1 score and get as many 3rd year honors as possible to get into the best internal medicine residencies. Look on the internal medicine program. Once you are in a strong IM program, fellowships will look mostly at the residency program that you came...

Yeah...let's see 1 year of internship + 4 years of radiology residency + 2 years of pediatric fellowship = 7 years to be able to "see the kid whose films you are reading". Easy to say it can be done when someone doesn't know the true path to become one. Let's commit 5 years of internship and...

One more thing. There are "scut work" in radiology like any other field. Do you think proofreading your dictations after using a powerscribe dictation is 100%. Most conscientious radiologists read their report for accuracy. If radiologists have an abnormal read, they call the referring...

You obviously have not been to too many private practice radiology practices. Hospitalists may have up to 3o patients. But do you even know that private practice radiologists have to each lunch at the viewbox to keep reading studies? If you don't know that work during a radiology day is much...

Lifestyle fields that are better than radiology in internal medicine. Lifestyles in Endocrinology, Allergy, Heme/Onc, Rheumatology, Hospitalist >>>> Radiology . Lifestyles in Surgery include Optho, Urology, ENT, Plastics >>>Radiology in terms of lifestyle. One can argue that an Orthopedic...

Actually, Peds has a better lifestyle than radiology. It is very interesting that we tend to extrapolate real life based on rotations as a 3rd and 4th year medical school. One main thing about radiology that no one really talks about is the number of weekends you have to work in radiology...

Here is list of the top ten paying medical specialities by Forbes magazine. http://www.forbes.com/pictures/efkk45eldej/the-10-best-paying-medical-specialties/ Don't go into radiology because of money.

Just out of curiousity. Why do yo want to switch out of internal medicine. And why radiology (as opposed to Anesthesiology, Dermatology etc). You only have two years left and you can be done with training. With the new board exam changes, everyone will end up doing fellowships in radiology...

Have a cousin that is a current IM resident at Indiana University Ball Memorial. It is as cush as it gets because it is a community program. However, the residents there have matched into Cardiology, Heme/Onc, Allergy, Nephrology, and Critical Care because of the Indiana University School...

Fellas you really are underestimating the true nature of a specialty and whether you can look in the mirror and say that it is worth it. Personally I transferred into rads from a surgery subspecialty and it is nothing like I thought it would be like as an observer during med school and...

My sister is a PGY3 IM resident and in the same boat. I told her to do a med onc fellowship instead of rad onc she still prefers radonc. Does that sound crazy or what. Preferring 4 years of rad onc training vs 2 years for just med onc. any thoughts on this situation. would the rad onc...