Did you change your mind about speciality?

[ellorie]

Well, did you? What did you start off wanting to do, and what did you end up wanting to do? I'm just curious. I'm REALLY sure I want to go into psychiatry, but it seems I may change my mind pretty fast once I get into it. What made you change your mind, if you did? And when did you change your mind?

 

For the poll, I used the same way of categorizing the specialities as this board does in the subforums.

[psychoswim]

I'm curious to hear too. I'm quite sure some people do end up staying the track, while a whole lot of others do change their minds.

 

I can't wait to see if I change my mind off ortho.. time will tell

[Renin]

Well; I've always wanted to do primary care; just different specialties within

[ellorie]

Well; I've always wanted to do primary care; just different specialties within

 

Stupid poll only allows max 10 options, otherwise I would have gone whole hog. What did you change your mind between? If you don't mind saying.

[A-Stark]

Maybe the poll should just ask whether we changed our minds? Specifics can be left to the comments.

[apache]

i started of looking at medicine as purely means to do psych, then got fm in mind because 5 years seems pretty unappealing to me when i can just work in addictions or something... i'm also looking at a bunch of non-clinical careers too, because, other than psych and maybe fm, i don't really like clinical medicine very much. but wouldn't mind maybe doing community health or public health etc. yeah, that's a pretty big 360, but looking back, i shouldn't really be surprised.

 

Well, did you? What did you start off wanting to do, and what did you end up wanting to do? I'm just curious. I'm REALLY sure I want to go into psychiatry, but it seems I may change my mind pretty fast once I get into it. What made you change your mind, if you did? And when did you change your mind?

 

For the poll, I used the same way of categorizing the specialities as this board does in the subforums.

[thebouque]

I'd love to answer your poll but I got a few questions:

 

1) Do you include general internal medicine and general pediatrics in primary care (like in the US) or you purely mean family/ER?

 

2) What do you call ''diagnostics''? Is it internal med subspecialties? radiologt/nuclear med? Lab medicine (path etc)?

 

Thanks

[cardiomegaly]

Muse, Calgary FM has an addictions R3 program for extra training!

[Icebox]

The poll doesn't have enough options, but yes I did change my mind (and I know more people in my class that ended up changing their minds over the years compared to those who didn't).

[apache]

thanks for the info

 

Muse, Calgary FM has an addictions R3 program for extra training!

[ellorie]

I know the poll doesn't have enough options, but that's because I'm not allowed more than one poll per post, or more than 10 options per poll. Feel free to elaborate.

[JJ1985]

I started med school thinking about medical genetics and pathology. Half way through first year I changed to anesthesiology and then in second year made the jump to dermatology.

[Kuantum]

Where is from diagnostics to surgery?