u/thegrind33

(exclude derm from this lol) But recently grabbed lunch with some surgical sub residents as a rad resident. Then someone brought up "damn you know I wish I did something like EM or FM or pmr, short residency, and theyll be an attending for 3-5 years before Im finished". And we all agreed lol. Im in rads so much more humane than the others, but we still have our occasional 2-3 weeks of getting destroyed by call, and sometimes I even feel trapped looking at 3 more years of training. It would feel pretty awesome to be a senior EM resident looking at $300-400 per hr locum jobs, or an FM senior looking to start a regen/IV clinic, and to not be someones underling for another couple years

Edit: forgot anesthesia. No idea why it isnt up there or past derm/plastics when you have locums for 400-600 an hour for a 4 year residency

I finished my first night block 2 weeks ago as a DR resident at a big academic center. The feedback I got was pretty brutal, was told I read too fast and miss fine details, such as not describing nodular apperance of adrenals, sub 1cm renal and hepatic cysts, lens replacements, saying no fx on msk films but not describing anatomoical variants that could be relevant, list goes on, but Im getting all the big stuff right. My impressions are also along the lines of "Ruptured appendicitis" "evidence of R MCA occlusion" etc rather than the essays I see from others. My PD talked to me and was concerned that I don't seem to think or act like a radiologist, and it doesn't seem like I value the things of what separates radiologists from other specialists. He recommended that I pursue pain or IR and potentially limit my practice as a diagnostic guy. I'm on good terms with everyone and have had good evals so far and a solid in-service exam score, so I don't think my position is in jeopardy or at risk of probabtion. So I'm wondering if what theyre saying is true, if any other rads have dealt with this, and what have they ended up doing, or if this is just academia stuff

Would an msk fellowship allow a radiologist to read the lucrative elective spine MRIs, or does that almost exclusively go to neuroradiology?