#YOLO Posted August 9, 2016 Report Share Posted August 9, 2016 What IM specialties are there without having to deal with inpatients?Rheum, Endocrine? Can you practice resp and make a decent living without in patients? Purely out pt/sleep? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futureGP Posted August 17, 2016 Report Share Posted August 17, 2016 In theory, all IM specialties can do without inpatient work. Rheum, endo, allergy, occupational medicine, General IM are traditionally found doing purely outpatient. You can certainly do that in resp doing pure outpt seeing asthma/copd/ild/sleep and doing pfts, sleep studies. But the thing is you'd have to pay for your own pfts, sleep lab etc. If you want to use hospital resources, there is some expectation you will join the local IM group and take IM call and be expected to do inpatient consults. Also, nothing stops GI/cardio/nephro guys from just opening up an office and taking consults from family MDs. That said, what is GI without scoping capabilities? what is nephro without dialysis units, what is cardio without an echo lab/cath? Might as well be GIM and see all GI/nephro/cardio patients and send them away to the hospital when they need scopes, dialysis and echos etc. Ya understand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#YOLO Posted August 17, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2016 i feel u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Letsdothisthing Posted August 20, 2016 Report Share Posted August 20, 2016 Im not sure where you live but general IM where I live is very much inpatient There will be consulting services for inpatients in hospital but I think you can defo make plenty of work for yourself doing clinics only if you want and you don't have a job asking you to do call for in house Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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