difficultdecisions

Thank you all of your responses! I also realized that I haven't done any FM rotations for 1 year now, so hopefully my electives/interviews will help a bit with the decision haha.

I'm currently in 4th year of medical school and will be applying through CaRMs this cycle. I'm still having a a very difficult time deciding between IM (I'm more interested in the outpatient specialties, e.g., endo, rheum, geriatrics) versus family medicine. I have been talking to many Internal medicine residents (R1s to R3s, many of them are interested in the same specialties), and many of them are telling me that if I can see myself being a family doc, I should just go for Family Medicine due to the better lifestyle/flexibility and ability to practice earlier (and they said I will do we