Medical specialties (1 Viewer)

[duckofdoom]

Hi.

I'm definitely considering completing a graduate medicine degree after my medical science degree.

I was wondering if anybody here could help me with a nagging question.

Students can choose to specialise after their 1 year internship.

I would love to do paediatrics and pathology.

Is it possible - and realistic to specialise in both fields?

I've heard of sub-specialising. Would that be possible?

I would love some answers from medical students who could help me out.

 

[sikeveo]

Specialising in 2 would be crazy. Specialising in one is very hard work.

 

[duckofdoom]

I agree, it is hard work.

I just thought you chose what field of medicine you wanted to do after your medicine degree and your internship.

 

[sikeveo]

Yeh many people change their minds through their degrees, after exposure to that field. I have seen people specialise, then after a while become general practitioners. (however gp training is one of the shorter ones)

 

[adrenaline88]

Duckofdoom you actually don't start specialising straight after internship because each specialty college has a long waiting list for training positions. The vast majority of doctors still have to do an extra 2-3 (or even more) years of residency (ie as RMOs and SRMOs) before they are accepted into training colleges (in your case, RCPA).

Have a look at the RCPA website: http://www.rcpa.edu.au and the RACP website http://www.racp.edu.au/

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

peds is about 5-6 yrs..
path is 4-5 yrs..

ummm ... how... why?

those two are VERY different?... how do u plan to use them.?

one is the softest nicest and clinical physicianship u can do..
and the other is the coldest most lab work ever..

i have no idea how u plan to do it..
but.. there isnt realli a use to doing 2 unless u changed ure mind..

 

[steph1987]

It would be impossible to undertake two specialty trainings at the same time (even if you were selected on to each training program). The only way it would be possible would be to do them consecutively. You would be just about ready to retire by the time you had qualified in both and established yourself in each field!
Subspecialty training is done on top of specialty training, so if you were to subspecialise as both a paediatrician and a pathologist, you would be 105 before you were out of your books.

Everyone does at least 2 undifferentiated postgraduate years, and training positions are hard come by and very competitive, so you would not be sure to secure one in your 3rd year out.

Don't think to hard about specialising yet; you will probably change your mind many times before you are done.