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Hey all. I'm a future rads resident and just passed the half way point of my PGY1 year. For those residents who have started their rads PGY2, I need to hear once again how nice it is to suddenly be done with those clinical medicine years! Feeling bogged down in 4+hr rounds, mountains of discharge paperwork and the loss of "golden weekends".

For those 4th year MS, enjoy your free time & travel. And good luck in the match!
 
First year of radiology residency is pretty nice in terms of hours. No call. Usually no weekends. Very little responsibility and expectations. Stay focused! They can't stop the clock.
 
AlexMorph said:
First year of radiology residency is pretty nice in terms of hours. No call. Usually no weekends. Very little responsibility and expectations. Stay focused! They can't stop the clock.
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Radiology residency is easier compared to what comes after.
 
Medicine internship is miserable. I struggle on a daily basis to find reasons not to just quit and go find a job in some other industry. I liked waiting tables in a Ruby Tuesday's at the mall better than this...and I think I might have earned a higher hourly wage (after the $0.25 tips from 80 year olds).

I know now why physician burnout and suicide are such a problem. I can't believe anyone would accept any amount of money to be a hospitalist. This just might be the worst job on the face of the planet.

I used to be a mostly positive and happy person. Medicine internship has destroyed me. I'm only a shell of the human being I was in June.
 
Puff-of-Snow Sign said:
Medicine internship is miserable. I struggle on a daily basis to find reasons not to just quit and go find a job in some other industry. I liked waiting tables in a Ruby Tuesday's at the mall better than this...and I think I might have earned a higher hourly wage (after the $0.25 tips from 80 year olds).

I know now why physician burnout and suicide are such a problem. I can't believe anyone would accept any amount of money to be a hospitalist. This just might be the worst job on the face of the planet.

I used to be a mostly positive and happy person. Medicine internship has destroyed me. I'm only a shell of the human being I was in June.
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You will enjoy your first and probably even all 4 years of radiology residency. Then once you become a radiology attending, the story starts.

Don't get me wrong. I love what I do. But there are many times that I ask myself why I went to medical school in the first place.
 
Puff-of-Snow Sign said:
Medicine internship is miserable. I struggle on a daily basis to find reasons not to just quit and go find a job in some other industry. I liked waiting tables in a Ruby Tuesday's at the mall better than this...and I think I might have earned a higher hourly wage (after the $0.25 tips from 80 year olds).

I know now why physician burnout and suicide are such a problem. I can't believe anyone would accept any amount of money to be a hospitalist. This just might be the worst job on the face of the planet.

I used to be a mostly positive and happy person. Medicine internship has destroyed me. I'm only a shell of the human being I was in June.
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Hang in there, do what you need to in order to maintain some peace of mind (exercise, yoga/meditation, "social" drinking, counseling, and/or SSRIs/benzo's)...rads residency will be demanding in it's own way, working as a rads attending will also be quite challenging but (ideally) you will be getting paid...good luck!
 
shark2000 said:
Radiology residency is easier compared to what comes after.
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You're such a drama queen, no offense.

And I enjoy reading most of your posts and appreciate your contributions to this forum.

Are you located in a big market?
 
IJL said:
You're such a drama queen, no offense.

And I enjoy reading most of your posts and appreciate your contributions to this forum.

Are you located in a big market?
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Very competitive market. I am a partner in a stable group. Our group volumes have gone up in the last 4-5 years. It is a super-busy group with good salary. Nothing to complain.

I just wanted to say that reporting a study and sending it to an attending is very different than being an attending in a busy practice and be responsible for all aspects of radiology.
 
Some programs are more cush than others. At my home program we work hard during the first year and start overnight and weekend call at 6 months. During the first 6 months we also run the non-ER services on the weekends. Scheduling if often similar to intern year with one golden weekend, one "gray" weekend and one black weekend per month.
 
Coincidentally I love my surgery PGY-1 year... I see the IM interns and just think "poor saps" every day. My hours are pretty long, but my job is pretty fun overall. I usually round for an hour to an hour and a half in the morning and maybe 30 mins in the afternoon. The day to day work is pretty enjoyable on non-call days.

I would suggest a surgery prelim at a slow community hospital to future rads residents. Either that or a transitional year... even then though, my wife is doing a transitional year and she has to do some horrible medicine rotation 3/4 of her time in intern year.
 
shark2000 said:
Very competitive market. I am a partner in a stable group. Our group volumes have gone up in the last 4-5 years. It is a super-busy group with good salary. Nothing to complain.

I just wanted to say that reporting a study and sending it to an attending is very different than being an attending in a busy practice and be responsible for all aspects of radiology.
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shark aren't you IR trained? How much IR do you actually do on a daily basis?
 
je355804 said:
shark aren't you IR trained? How much IR do you actually do on a daily basis?
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MSK trained. Also spent most of my 4th year in body ( was a very procedural department).

I spend about 30-35% of my time doing procedures. I do kypho/vertebro, lots of spine procedures, most biopsies (other than breast), drains, line, tubes (PCNs and ... ) and other basic IR. I don't do any arterial work as I am not trained to do.
 
Puff-of-Snow Sign said:
Medicine internship is miserable. I struggle on a daily basis to find reasons not to just quit and go find a job in some other industry. I liked waiting tables in a Ruby Tuesday's at the mall better than this...and I think I might have earned a higher hourly wage (after the $0.25 tips from 80 year olds).

I know now why physician burnout and suicide are such a problem. I can't believe anyone would accept any amount of money to be a hospitalist. This just might be the worst job on the face of the planet.

I used to be a mostly positive and happy person. Medicine internship has destroyed me. I'm only a shell of the human being I was in June.
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Hang in there. Hospitalist jobs are not really that bad depending on where you work, what kind of ancillary staff you have, and your co-workers. You can have a nice job (work-wise), but boring co-workers in a city you don't care about and you'll end up miserable. Alternatively, you could have a crappy job work-wise, but great co-workers to get through it all and a nice city to hang out in after work. Try to hang out with cool people in your intern class with whatever free time you have and hopefully you have nice med students on service to socialize with on topics outside of work. We joked around all the time in the workroom back in intern year and it made the days more tolerable and go by faster.
 
Yep, internship is terrible. ****ing terrible. I would leave medicine altogether without hesitation if that was the only prospect.

You will like radiology. I had a huge smile on my face for about 6 months. Eventually, the memory of how bad clinical medicine is faded, and I began to complain about the stupid day-to-day aspects of the job like you do at any job. I think I can fairly say, though, that my worst day of radiology residency was better than my best day of intership, and I am at a high volume residency.

Hang in there! 5.5 months to go!
 
I went from a Cush TY to a slave-driving radiology residency.

That made for a rough transition. I had way more free time in my internship and there was no pressure to study except for step 3. Internship felt like a "real" job. Go in, bust your ass for the day, then go home and the rest of your day/evening is yours.

I like radiology ... but don't expect to feel like life is a million times better after internship if you're making a transition like I made.
 
Rad2013 said:
I went from a Cush TY to a slave-driving radiology residency.

That made for a rough transition. I had way more free time in my internship and there was no pressure to study except for step 3. Internship felt like a "real" job. Go in, bust your ass for the day, then go home and the rest of your day/evening is yours.

I like radiology ... but don't expect to feel like life is a million times better after internship if you're making a transition like I made.
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I have a feeling I might be doing the same thing... at a VERY cush TY now.. then off to a big busy rads program next year
 
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