REALITY of the merger: PD: "We went from 170 applications to 450 applications our first cycle"

[Señor S]

Probably Brown. Yale isn't that friendly to DOs if I remember correctly, whereas Brown's FM dept is full of them.

Department of Medicine - Alpert Medical School

I count one DO in their "academic IM" program faculty. Plus, as mentioned above, one third-year resident in their primary care track. All over the place?

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[DrfluffyMD]

Department of Medicine - Alpert Medical School

I count one DO in their "academic IM" program faculty. Plus, as mentioned above, one third-year resident in their primary care track. All over the place?

I don't see any DO besides one guy in their community roster.

 

[SLC]

Department of Medicine - Alpert Medical School

I count one DO in their "academic IM" program faculty. Plus, as mentioned above, one third-year resident in their primary care track. All over the place?

Like I said, don't know my program.

 

[DrfluffyMD]

Like I said, don't know my program.

I honestly think there should be more DOs in FM.

I am honestly don't get why people aren't into the idea of primary care. Great job market, flexible lifestyle and aork style, etc.

 

[SLC]

I honestly think there should be more DOs in FM.

I am honestly don't get why people aren't into the idea of primary care. Great job market, flexible lifestyle and aork style, etc.

I'm biased, but I think FM rocks.

I took a long hard look at IM with an eye for doing Heme-Onc; but hated my Sub-I and so had to take stock and make a new plan. This was first few months of 4th year.

Realized I liked outpatient medicine, Peds, OB, ER, etc. FM seemed like a natural fit. I'd not thought a ton about it since early on in Med school, primary care was supposedly for the folks who couldn't do anything else. But I had good board scores etc.

I can honestly say that as a 3rd year FM resident, I've never had any regrets or inkling that I might have made the wrong choice. I seriously love what I do; and I'm getting pretty freaking good at it too!

 

[DrfluffyMD]

I'm biased, but I think FM rocks.

I took a long hard look at IM with an eye for doing Heme-Onc; but hated my Sub-I and so had to take stock and make a new plan. This was first few months of 4th year.

Realized I liked outpatient medicine, Peds, OB, ER, etc. FM seemed like a natural fit. I'd not thought a ton about it since early on in Med school, primary care was supposedly for the folks who couldn't do anything else. But I had good board scores etc.

I can honestly say that as a 3rd year FM resident, I've never had any regrets or inkling that I might have made the wrong choice. I seriously love what I do; and I'm getting pretty freaking good at it too!

Not to mention in the real world people like Southern surgeon will bend over backwards for your referall if there are competiting groups in town.

 

[Goro]

I honestly think there should be more DOs in FM.

I am honestly don't get why people aren't into the idea of primary care. Great job market, flexible lifestyle and aork style, etc.

I suspect it's purely a $ thing. Most pre-meds seem to think it's the 7th Circle of Hell. But then again, they also seem to think that getting a 250+ on USMLE is easy too.

 

[W19]

I suspect it's purely a $ thing. Most pre-meds seem to think it's the 7th Circle of Hell. But then again, they also seem to think that getting a 250+ on USMLE is easy too.

Prestige and dealing with BS social issues in primary care also have something to do with it... As for $$$, it does not seem to be too difficult to make $300k/year as a PCP working 50-55 hrs/wk....

 

[Señor S]

Like I said, don't know my program.

So which "Ivy League" IM program has DOs "all over"? Enlighten us.

 

[DrfluffyMD]

Same one that doesn't fill and relies on the scramble to fill with unmatched DOs

(And even though he's posted exactly which program like a half dozen times...we can't say it or he'll report for doxxing)

You can just enlighten us in which ivy league IM program doesn't fill and scramble. Is it Dartmouth? Looks like a nice hospital.

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

I am honestly don't get why people aren't into the idea of primary care. Great job market, flexible lifestyle and aork style, etc.

It just isn't the "cool" thing to be into, I've heard college freshmen bag on it. They don't even know what an isomer is yet but they will lovingly rag on someone who makes a cool 250k working 50 hours a week.

 

[BehindBlueEyes]

I honestly think there should be more DOs in FM.

I am honestly don't get why people aren't into the idea of primary care. Great job market, flexible lifestyle and aork style, etc.

It just isn't the "cool" thing to be into, I've heard college freshmen bag on it. They don't even know what an isomer is yet but they will lovingly rag on someone who makes a cool 250k working 50 hours a week.

Let's be honest, it's all Hollywood's fault because there isn't a cool TV show about family medicine. ER featured (obviously) emergency medicine docs, Grey's Anatomy had neurosurgeons, Scrubs had internists/surgeons... now we have pre-meds wanting to be "diagnosticians" (thanks House MD). FM just needs a catchy popular TV show on Netflix, problem solved.

 

[IslandStyle808]

It just isn't the "cool" thing to be into, I've heard college freshmen bag on it. They don't even know what an isomer is yet but they will lovingly rag on someone who makes a cool 250k working 50 hours a week.

Don't worry you will see those types rag on family medicine in medical school too...

 

[IslandStyle808]

Let's be honest, it's all Hollywood's fault because there isn't a cool TV show about family medicine. ER featured (obviously) emergency medicine docs, Grey's Anatomy had neurosurgeons, Scrubs had internists/surgeons... now we have pre-meds wanting to be "diagnosticians" (thanks House MD). FM just needs a catchy popular TV show on Netflix, problem solved.

But I like Dr. Ken...

 

[Giovanotto]

Let's be honest, it's all Hollywood's fault because there isn't a cool TV show about family medicine. ER featured (obviously) emergency medicine docs, Grey's Anatomy had neurosurgeons, Scrubs had internists/surgeons... now we have pre-meds wanting to be "diagnosticians" (thanks House MD). FM just needs a catchy popular TV show on Netflix, problem solved.

Funny enough, in italy, there is an extremely popular show called ''doctor in the family', which is a show about a family with a FM physician (husband).

Un medico in famiglia - Wikipedia

 

[Arkteryx]

What about royal pains, Hank is technically an FM Doc


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[Atom612]

I'm biased, but I think FM rocks.

I took a long hard look at IM with an eye for doing Heme-Onc; but hated my Sub-I and so had to take stock and make a new plan. This was first few months of 4th year.

Realized I liked outpatient medicine, Peds, OB, ER, etc. FM seemed like a natural fit. I'd not thought a ton about it since early on in Med school, primary care was supposedly for the folks who couldn't do anything else. But I had good board scores etc.

I can honestly say that as a 3rd year FM resident, I've never had any regrets or inkling that I might have made the wrong choice. I seriously love what I do; and I'm getting pretty freaking good at it too!

Seriously, SDN sometimes makes it out to seem like all of the specialists look down on primary care docs thinking they weren't good enough for anything else. Does anyone experience this in real life outside of anonymous med forums? If I genuinely have an interest in general IM as a terminal practice (not specializing), are all of my specialist colleagues going to assume I just had nowhere else to go?

 

[Ho0v-man]

Seriously, SDN sometimes makes it out to seem like all of the specialists look down on primary care docs thinking they weren't good enough for anything else. Does anyone experience this in real life outside of anonymous med forums? If I genuinely have an interest in general IM as a terminal practice (not specializing), are all of my specialist colleagues going to assume I just had nowhere else to go?

I've met plenty of docs from every specialty who think everyone not in their specialty is an idiot who couldn't do it. Whatever they need to make themselves feel better about coming in to see an ER pt in the middle of the night, I guess.

I'll be asleep

 

[shadowlightfox]

I'm confused...based on what you wrote in your other thread:

Help me figure out my future:: Ob/Gyn vs. Gen Surg


Which is it? And why can't you just tell the truth?

I don't know about you, but I prefer to have the benefit of doubt in people and see the good in them.

For instance, perhaps he was saying the truth in that topic, but maybe he got kicked out of MD school because the committee knew he is a pathological liar and full of crap and now had to settle for whatever school would take him after his shenanigans, which happened to be a DO school.

 

[shifty_ut89]

Wow. So glad I don't have any serious interest in a competitive specialty. It's either ridiculously impossible for a DO student like myself, or this forum's members just like to blow things out of proportion (probably a solid mix of both).

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

Wow. So glad I don't have any serious interest in a competitive specialty. It's either ridiculously impossible for a DO student like myself, or this forum's members just like to blow things out of proportion (probably a solid mix of both).

Definitely a bit of both. The difficulty is skewed because just by the nature of the type of applicants a lot of DO schools accept there are fewer students capable of the type of application required for those specialties. They are competitive for a reason.