How many of you wanted to go into peds when you started med school

[bluebirdie]

Just wondering out of you guys who are residents or finished their clerkships...did you have an inkling that you wanted to go into peds when you started medical school?

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[fourthyearmed]

Had no idea.

 

[14022]

Yes. Coming into medical school I wanted to do pediatrics. I volunteered in our school's student-run community pediatric clinic during my first year of medical school. I found it much harder to interact with these kids compared to my cousins and decided that I would not be good at it. But then when I did the clerkship during my third year, I found that like everything in medicine, interacting with kids is a skill that can be learned. I also hated treating noncompliant obese smoking adults. So now it is peds all the way for me!

 

[GeneGoddess]

Hadn't a clue. Didn't decide until after my Pedi rotation.

 

[KidDr]

I've known since I was a teenager that I wanted to do peds, and never changed my mind all the way through college/med school. Although back then I did think I was going to do peds heme/onc, something that I could never see myself doing now.

 

[AnnaMags]

As a young child, I thought I would be a pediatric transplant surgeon! haha When I entered med school I did not think I'd be doing peds, I thought maybe FM was right for me. In some ways, peds vs. IM has been a toss up because I hope to do Allergy/Immunology in the future and you treat both children and adults after that fellowship.

But I've now decided that peds is for me.

This has been a fun thread because I really thought everyone besides myself, grew up wanting to do peds all the way. Glad to see I'm not the only convert.

 

[Homunculus]

had no idea. peds snuck up on me, too.

amazingly enough, in medical school i narrowed down my choices to peds, path, or EM. i think path was a side effect of patient burnout, lol. peds EM is attractive. so are a few other subspecialties, though being military limits my ability somewhat in obtaining fellowships (but that's another story).

--your friendly neighborhood PGY2 peds caveman

 

[jackjinju]

I was the vice-president of the anesthesiology interest group into 3rd year of med school...I was gonna do peds anesthesia...now NICU. So that's something of a change

 

[HowUdoin]

I thought ER all the way, couldn't stand all the crying. Now I love neonates and will be pursuing a neonatology fellowship after finishing my residency. The irony.

 

[Meeko1452]

Chose to do my peds rotation first in my 3rd year so I'd never have to touch another kid, but got hooked and here I am....

 

[labangel]

Came in thinking peds, briefly considered FM or psych during 2nd and 3rd years, and am now definitely settled back on peds