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I'm an M3 soon-to-be M4 applying in this upcoming match. During my clinical year, I could not really envision myself doing any specialty in the core rotations other than IM. I did a radiology elective and I was surprised, they let me look through some of the junior R1 cases on an extra workstation and I enjoyed the workflow/thought processes.
Random thoughts:
- If I did IM, I'd want to specialize, I was thinking cards -> EP. A big turn-off is that it's another competition for specific fellowships (cards, GI).
- The big part I'm hesitating on is that I do like spending time with patients, even some of the more mundane or tedious interactions.
- I have an engineering background (BME) and have always enjoyed building PCs, coding, etc.
Questions:
1) When did you know that you wanted to do radiology? Was there a specific experience, or specialty you chose it over?
2) Any regret in choosing radiology deeper in your career? Do you miss the lower-to-no patient interaction?
3) Hard to tell without step 2 yet, but how competitive is my application so far?
Random thoughts:
- If I did IM, I'd want to specialize, I was thinking cards -> EP. A big turn-off is that it's another competition for specific fellowships (cards, GI).
- The big part I'm hesitating on is that I do like spending time with patients, even some of the more mundane or tedious interactions.
- I have an engineering background (BME) and have always enjoyed building PCs, coding, etc.
Questions:
1) When did you know that you wanted to do radiology? Was there a specific experience, or specialty you chose it over?
2) Any regret in choosing radiology deeper in your career? Do you miss the lower-to-no patient interaction?
3) Hard to tell without step 2 yet, but how competitive is my application so far?
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