Sunday, April 5, 2009

Apples and Oranges

So I was sent to an Internal Medicine outpatient office on Friday to shadow the doctor. I was hoping it would be the first step in figuring out whether I want to train in internal med or family med.

When I did my family med rotation I was at Jefferson's offices... about 40 exam rooms, run by residents, in the middle of the city. Friday I worked with a solo practitioner with his two exam rooms, one nurse, one receptionist, and his wife doing the billing, with his office in a 'commercial park' that apparently was a cornfield two years ago. It was south of the canal in Delaware, which = middle of no where.

So I got some more data points to use in my personal life forecasting model. But all I've really seen are two extremes of practices, with no indication as to what should be attributed to the specialty training (probably very little).

How do I make this decision??


2 comments:

mindy said...

maybe you can talk to Dr. Kane and he can arrange for you to follow an jeff internal medicine doc in their private clinic in center city.

Steve said...

If it was me, I'd opt for the rural setting with a more low-key practice, providing there was enough volume to provide enough income to live on. But that's me. I'm EM all the way.