Which Doctor should I be?

Question

I am really divided between the doctor of Internal Medicine and Anesthesiology. I am not sure which one I want to be. I want to decide earlier so I can prepare for those classes later?

Answer 1

anesthesiologists are involved in surgeries obv. and have very high starting salaries i think it was 80k then goes upwards. Whereas internal med is a number of other things you could do cardiology, endocrinology, infectious diseases, and the list goes on, so it's good in a sense that it gives you a lot of options.All of those have dif. salaries of course starting salaries arent as high as anesthes. No matter which one you choose after all your schooling/interning/res/fellowship and stuff you will have potentioal to make a salary between 100k and 400k.

Answer 2

Im the same, it comes down to if you want to do procedures or not, cos anaesthetics, is very hands on, while internal medicine has far fewer procedures, for me I love internal medicine, but find I need to do procedures to keep interested, so maybe anaesthetics, with attachments to acute pain service for more of a medical type job, or conversely internalist with an interest in some type of procedures like endoscope?

I know you hv to prepare early but just to let you know - you can change your mind, and the preparation you do now, wont make all the difference in getting in your chosen field.