mskfb Posted October 16, 2023 Report Share Posted October 16, 2023 Curious about anyone's input on pursuing GIM (5 yr fellowship) vs ID as a subspecialty in the Canadian setting. I'd favour the 5-year GIM over the 4 year, as the place I want to work only really hires 5-year GIM grads. I like the medicine in both ID and GIM, and while I favour GIM (slightly) for various reasons (flexibility, compensation, diagnostic breadth), it's really not a slam dunk and there are lots of other outside of medicine things that factor into my decision. Ultimately I think I'd be happy in both, just wondering if anyone else has faced a similar dilemma or has opinions regarding this. Thanks! EDIT: for context, PGY3 with CARMS coming up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIMPCx Posted October 21, 2023 Report Share Posted October 21, 2023 Unless you want to remain academic there isn’t a debate here. Just do ID and you can work as GIM all you want and do ID as well. if you want to stay academic only then the jobs are very different but most places let ID docs attend on CTU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACHQ Posted October 23, 2023 Report Share Posted October 23, 2023 Agreed with above poster. I can't comment on the academic settings anymore but in large urban community hospitals I have colleagues who do ID and GIM (most of them do it due to a combination of compensation but also the fact that they also like GIM). It would make sense to do ID for that reason. Even if you were not sure it would make more sense to do ID and afterwards you can just do GIM if that is really all you want to do (whereas you can't do the opposite) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futureGP Posted October 26, 2023 Report Share Posted October 26, 2023 I’d do ID. Anyone can do GIM. only ID can do ID After ID, if you miss IM so much, you can easily do both in the community Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supervenience Posted October 26, 2023 Report Share Posted October 26, 2023 Echo above. I don't know where you are looking to work, but I can say that in Toronto, TGH for example which is one of the leading academic hospitals in all of Canada, has ID staff running CTU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIMPCx Posted October 31, 2023 Report Share Posted October 31, 2023 On 10/26/2023 at 11:56 AM, Supervenience said: Echo above. I don't know where you are looking to work, but I can say that in Toronto, TGH for example which is one of the leading academic hospitals in all of Canada, has ID staff running CTU. Good Old Paul Bunce, Isaac and Wayne among others I’m sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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