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Hi everyone. So I just submitted Eras last week and now I’m having cold feet. I was torn between EM and general surgery. I loved my surgery rotation but it was at a community hospital with no residents, so I didn’t get exposed to how my life would be during residency. They didn’t make us read and didn’t pimp at all. I did have a malignant OB rotation where I cried every day because of the insane amount of work/reading/ I experienced and questioned if I was fit to be into medicine. After that I was set on doing EM because I didn’t want that setting to be the type of career I want for my life. And prior to med school I wanted to do EM. I went ahead and applied EM after doing some rotations in it but my heart was still thinking about my time with my community surgery preceptors. Now I’m having cold feet thinking I chose the wrong specialty and I’m not excited for match day and graduation. Is this normal? Did I make the wrong choice applying em?
What I envision in my career is where I have time to be present for my future family and have control of how many hours I work. To have control to scale it up or down depending on the month. Right now I don’t mind working hard but I know later in life once I have a family I would regret being stuck at work for long long hours
What I envision in my career is where I have time to be present for my future family and have control of how many hours I work. To have control to scale it up or down depending on the month. Right now I don’t mind working hard but I know later in life once I have a family I would regret being stuck at work for long long hours