Choosing Intership...

[Meritina]

I have a choice between internships - peds, med, or surg - unless there are other internships i am not aware of.

I'm trying to pick one based on which tends to have a less massive patient load, less rounding, which is a bit less work-intensive, and which has less call (yeah right if there are any out there like this, but anyways...).

ironically, it appeared that surgery interns had it a bit better off in these ways at my institution than medicine and peds so i am leaning towards that. on the other hand, i still want to come out being a good doctor capable of treating basic illnesses and that makes medicine more attractive.

what are you opinions about the different types of internship if you could choose any...

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[lf777]

I'd go with Medicine (ovbiously I am biased by being a Medicine resident) If you want to be able to do general stuff I think it's the best option. Anyway, as far as workload, it varies among institutions. At my institution, surgical interns work really hard, but withe 80h/w cap things might be better.

good luck
lf

 

[zoolander]

instead of the field- there are a few "chill" surgery residencies on the W coast (where I'm from) and some brutal PGY-1 medicine and transitional years (Brigham, Harbor-UCLA).

Generally community hospitals are less malignant- there are a few famously chill hospitals to spend a year. By reputation only... Santa Barbara Cottage, Virginia Mason, any Kaiser, Santa Clara Valley, St. Marys in SF, White Memorial, UCLA-Woodland Hills, the community hospital in San Diego, Lenox Hill, Flushing, St Vincents (maybe changing). Any others?

 

[joaquin13]

I am a DO student looking into some transitional year/prelim programs in Southern Cal. I was wondering what programs in Southern Cal were DO-friendly, and with the medicine prelim year, do they expect you to stay in the IM program for residency?
Thanks for your help.