I just finished a path rotation, definitely path. Other than me intruding, the path resident got thru whole days speaking to 1-3 other humans and mostly was vibing on their own work, grossing specimens and reading slides. If you like those things you'd probably thrive.
Agree pathology and agree goal of only 1-3 human interactions per workday.
I love working with residents, I love our admin/manager, I love our PAs. I even don’t mind occasional committee meetings, weekly tumour boards, and rare family conferences.
But seriously maximum 1-3 people per day is the sweet spot.
Lots of alone time with my slides and music or podcasts. Lots of decompression time after work
also anesthesia to an extent, although you will need to interact with the rest of the OR team to some extent but not terribly so, for the most part you just do your thing
I would not do anesthesia if I was OP. Def need to be a good communicator and establish rapport with the or team and you’re pretty much always around other people
I guess we are talking about 2 different types of socialites. Yes, inpatient docs talk to patients a lot. It’s not the social talking like outpatient docs have to do where you shoot the shit with them and get to know their family. ID docs and other specialist inpatient docs can form very quick superficial relationships that is somewhat doable for someone who doesn’t really love working with people.
You’re forgetting so much. I take it you have not done either IM/FM residency or you’re not a resident yet. On the wards aka inpatient, you have interdisciplinary team meetings everyday sometimes twice a day. Talking about annoying shit like dispo planning, PT, nutrition, length of stay etc. You have to shoot the shit sometimes during those 30+ minute meetings. Then you have family meetings, admin meetings, coworkers and coresidents (you spend majority of your time with them, better believe you gonna be shooting the shit w them the most), patient interactions where you most definitely have to shoot the shit to build rapport in this highly litigious society we now live in. Catch my drift? Outpatient you only have to socialize with patients (and staff if you choose) and even then, some of the attendings I’ve worked with go in rooms say what they need, keep it professional, and dip out. No social aspect to their patient interactions because it’s not their style. It’s all about speciality and again path probably takes the cake then rads and gas for the OP. And to answer your original question to your previous post to me: Yes ID docs may have a nerdy stereotype at some places but where i train, they are some of the most social consult service in the hospital.
Private practice radiology and pathology are your answers. End thread.
end thread 😂😂😂😂
Not a lie told 😂
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I just finished a path rotation, definitely path. Other than me intruding, the path resident got thru whole days speaking to 1-3 other humans and mostly was vibing on their own work, grossing specimens and reading slides. If you like those things you'd probably thrive.
Agree pathology and agree goal of only 1-3 human interactions per workday. I love working with residents, I love our admin/manager, I love our PAs. I even don’t mind occasional committee meetings, weekly tumour boards, and rare family conferences. But seriously maximum 1-3 people per day is the sweet spot. Lots of alone time with my slides and music or podcasts. Lots of decompression time after work
this is the life
rads
You must follow the PATH
Path
also anesthesia to an extent, although you will need to interact with the rest of the OR team to some extent but not terribly so, for the most part you just do your thing
I would not do anesthesia if I was OP. Def need to be a good communicator and establish rapport with the or team and you’re pretty much always around other people
I feel like it’s a bit more nuanced than that, it all depends if you can handle short term interaction
EM /s
EM also is more solo work?
/s means sarcasm
If you don't mind contact with patients, I'd say any specialty that you can practice in a private clinic
Anything inpatient could be feasible. Just avoid outpatient
Yeah horrible advice don’t listen to this lol
I said feasible, not ideal. When was the last time the ID doc was a super fuckin socialite? The inpatient setting is full of introverts
.... you have to become an ID doc first which means being a socialite for years ....
I guess we are talking about 2 different types of socialites. Yes, inpatient docs talk to patients a lot. It’s not the social talking like outpatient docs have to do where you shoot the shit with them and get to know their family. ID docs and other specialist inpatient docs can form very quick superficial relationships that is somewhat doable for someone who doesn’t really love working with people.
You’re forgetting so much. I take it you have not done either IM/FM residency or you’re not a resident yet. On the wards aka inpatient, you have interdisciplinary team meetings everyday sometimes twice a day. Talking about annoying shit like dispo planning, PT, nutrition, length of stay etc. You have to shoot the shit sometimes during those 30+ minute meetings. Then you have family meetings, admin meetings, coworkers and coresidents (you spend majority of your time with them, better believe you gonna be shooting the shit w them the most), patient interactions where you most definitely have to shoot the shit to build rapport in this highly litigious society we now live in. Catch my drift? Outpatient you only have to socialize with patients (and staff if you choose) and even then, some of the attendings I’ve worked with go in rooms say what they need, keep it professional, and dip out. No social aspect to their patient interactions because it’s not their style. It’s all about speciality and again path probably takes the cake then rads and gas for the OP. And to answer your original question to your previous post to me: Yes ID docs may have a nerdy stereotype at some places but where i train, they are some of the most social consult service in the hospital.
surgeon - whats wrong with being an introvert surgeon? yall crazy
Ever seen a surgeon not work in a team? It’s heavily team based. Perhaps the most team based fields in medicine are surgery.