Questions about medicine as a career, about which specialty to go into, or from practicing physicians wondering about changing specialty or location of practice are welcome here.
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M4 who interviewed mostly at larger community IM programs. Many attendings tell me that I "need to specialize" citing a number of reasons (pay, scope encroachment, AI). I'm interested in Pulm/crit and have that in mind as I am making my rank list, but how much weight should I put behind their concerns? It seems like there are lots of happy, adequately compensated hospitalists out there, but I've obviously had limited exposure given how long I've been training, so it'd be nice to hear more perspectives.
Does anyone know of someone that has found success finding work outside of medicine? I've been working at the attending level for several years, and it makes me miserable. The workload has just become increasingly stressful since finishing training. Locums wouldn't really be better with my specialty. I've been unsuccessful in getting interviews outside of medicine so far. Kind of flailing here.
u/leaving_medicine used to spam these types of threads endlessly with advice on getting consulting jobs. Looks like there is a discord page about it now.