Career options evening came and went and for me it was anything but helpful! (sarcasm is the lowest form of humour yet I embrace it. What does that say about me?)

Sorry if that sounds negative, but I mean it in the best way possible! I didn’t have a chance to get to all booths, but the people I did get to speak to were absolutely wonderful! If anything, I left career options evening wanted to pursue more paths in medicine than I did when I went in!

Maybe this will help illustrate my point. The residency training programs that showed up were:

Anesthesia, Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology - Adult, Clinician Investigator Program, Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Endocrinology, Family Medicine, Family Medicine - Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine -Northumberland Program, Gastroenterology - Adult, General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Maternal - Fetal Medicine, Medical Oncology, Neurosurgery, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Ophthalmology (no wonder I can’t spell that word!), Orthopedic Surgery, Otolaryngology, Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatrics, Physica Medicine & Rehabilitation, Psychiatry, Radiation Oncology, Rheumatology and Urology.

Do you see why I’m one very lost monkey?

I’m doing my elective in Anesthesia which I really like! I spent a bit of time at the General Surgery table learning about the different paths that follow from there. I also got to play with their laparoscopic simulation which was very cool. After talking to a few other booths I spent a bit of time hanging the internal medicine folk. There are a ton of options there too and I couldn’t resist giving their endoscope a whirl.

One of our classmates started a “Residency Time Capsule” where our class put down what we thought we’d end up doing. I think it’ll be very interesting to see what comes out of that.