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As someone who second-careered into medicine: It's a ten-year commitment, roughly, to become a practicing ER doc. And in today's industry, you'll spend the ove
by arkades 6y ago
As someone who second-careered into medicine:
It's a ten-year commitment, roughly, to become a practicing ER doc. And in today's industry, you'll spend the overwhelming majority of your time doing documentation on shit that should've been seen by a PCP, not an emergency department. And definitely not treating emergencies. You'll be lucky if you see one or two a day in a major ED; in smaller ED's, even one a week is optimistic.
If you want to jump in with eyes wide open, more power to you. Most days, I can't tell you whether I regret my move or not.
- Scoundreller 6y agoThis fellow went to a 3 year med school that doesn’t care too much about your prerequisites as long as you have a degree. It’s 3 because they don’t really do summers off. Although he did a full 5yr EM residency, in Canada you can work EM with a 2 year FP residency and another year as an FP specializing in EM. Sooo, 10 at the most, but could be done in 6.
- SkyPuncher 6y agoIt's still 3 years of zero pay and $40k+ in tuition and 3+ years of shit pay.
- jnbiche 6y agoWhich medical school is that? Caribbean one?
- Scoundreller 6y agoMcMaster University, 45 minutes from Toronto.
- ghufran_syed 6y agoDepends where you work - I work at St Joe’s in Stockton, and it’s not unusual to incubate 5 or 6 patients in a shift, though one or two is more usual. Get in touch if you’re looking to work in a super underserved community, with ridiculously high acuity! That said, most ED’s are not like that, and an awful lot of emergency medicine is ‘just’ careful assessment and reassurance, so I’d agree that if you don’t like the process of seeing and helping high and low acuity patients, it’s a bad career choice. If anyone wants to chat about the pro’s and con’s of EM and career changing, happy to chat, contact info in profile