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Originally Posted by ikestoys
All residencies are going to be 3 years, and the length of residency is pretty well correlated with how well you're paid. Overall, the radiology life style is pretty sweet though.
That life style stuff is the only reason why I might not choose surgery.
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Originally Posted by 54-
Pretty cool. Radiology is definitely the field of the future. Doesn't that require a **** ton more schooling though? Toward the end of med school i figure most ppl would hate the thought of 4+ more years of residency/internship in order to specialize.
Where do u go to medschool? I'm applying this upcoming cycle and considering a 1 yr masters program in radiology during my gap year.
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Originally Posted by FlanCrest
sackler school of medicine in tel aviv, israel. american program. its a lot of fun.
radiology is a 4 year residency with a 1 year required prelim, usually in surgery or internal med. specializing takes another 1-2 years. I figure I'll have a real job by the time im 35.
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from flan and other friends i know at sackler and other programs in israel (i think columbia just started one?), they're all supposed to be awesome.
every residency is at least 3 years, but that's for the basics. internist, general pediatrician, neurologist, psychiatrist are all three to four. if you wanna do cardiology or GI that's at least another 2-3 year fellowship on top of medicine or peds residency. my neuro attending told me that 98% (may not be totally accurate as i never checked the validity of this bc i don't care too much) of neurologists nowadays do a 2 year fellowship. general surgery is 5-7 years with another 1-2 years of fellowship if you wanna do anything like cardiothoracic, transplant, etc. basically, everything beyond the basics is relatively comparable in years. the other thing to keep in mind is that once you're an attending (done with residency) life isn't too bad in anything. there's still a lot of variance among fields, but none will make you wanna kill yourself.
also, many people do hate the idea of having to do a possible 7 years for something like general surgery and that steers them toward something else. lots of people also don't want to make only a modest living. based on those, a good number of people change their mind but the more powerful thing that i see for the most part is that most people tend to choose based on what they can see themselves doing for their entire career. i did really well in neuro and had a good time for the month i was on that clerkship, but id hate every day of work if i had to do it longterm. the only thing that i imagine making me happy at this point is surgery so even though i know it'll be a tough few years ill suck it up (hopefully.)
flan,
you come back stateside for fourth year, correct? if so, where/when are you gonna be?
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