<p>I know of a student who was graduated from BCM and went back to northeast (actually NYC) for his/her residency training. he/she was from Texas. (He/she “went back” in the sense that he/she had gone to a north east college as an OOS college student.)</p>
<p>DS once heard from one of his friends that some time either in med school or in residency, the student had better settle down in the region he may practice medicine in the future. This is because in medicine, eventually you need to establish your local connection. I wonder whether there is some truth in it.</p>
<p>I wish DS could come back to our state after med school. But he once “warned” us he might not be able to do so after he had looked at where the students from his med school matched.</p>
<p>I once heard that once parents (or the child herself) decide to send their child to an OOS college, they should be psychologically prepared that he or she would not come back to their home state after graduation and for his career.</p>
<p>Texas is good at increasing the number of students at its med schools, but is not as good at increasing the number of residency slots. But I heard it is good at recruiting practicing doctors from some northeast states (e.g., Penn is what I heard of. The medical insurance companies/lawyers there must be pretty good at what they are doing so that they force many doctors to close their bunisness there and move south:))</p>
<p>I heard there will be a med school and a teaching hospital in Austin not far in the future. Nice location.</p>
<p>Curm - I took my D to a derm appointment in Houston an year ago. They gave out appointments only a month in advance. I went there and was sure it was like no doctor’s office that I have ever been to. </p>
<p>It is like the resident in one of those TV shows who liked to hang out in dermatology because they were handing out massages. Anyone remember which show it was?</p>
<p>lol. Someone mentioned the same show yesterday. Whatever it was, he said the surgeons walked onto the derm floor and it was all massages and rainbows and lollipops. ;)</p>
<p>Yup. Derm. Like surgery derm or derm path. So I have been informed. I think it is about 90% certain now. Once she gets hooked up with her research mentor it will be a done deal. But. She’s in IM rotation now and is working 12 to 14 a day. 6 days a week. Says she needs to Honor it for derm so she’s blowing and going. I am sure she has a saltine stuck in her hair by now and no clean clothes. ;)</p>
<p>Glad to hear that she has found her passion/destiny.</p>
<p>Wow, I did not know the IM rotation is so demanding. Isn’t it the case that the IM rotation is one of the rotations that last longer?! Hopefully, it is not an offsite rotation like in poor/shady Bridgeport or wealthy Waterbury. The latter is rumored to be a “nice” one except for the long commute part.(“nice” = students being taught/treated/graded better.)</p>
<p>IM is what my DD is doing now, too. The rotation is twice as long as the others this year. She says it is a lot like a TV show, including eye rolling residents, mysterious mind reading required, and incredibly long days. But she figures it will get better once she gets the basic expectations down.</p>
<p>My S referred to his IM rotation as “eternal medicine.” Convinced him he wanted to do something where he could “fix” a problem rather than, in his words, “treat people who really don’t want to get well.” Seeing so many " repeat offenders" really didn’t sit well with him.</p>
<p>And to think, the things I like most about medicine are longitudinal care, taking plenty of time to discuss stuff with patients, and having the luxury of thinking through complex clinical problems. I’m so happy there are people like your kids out there who like to do the surgery and EM stuff!</p>
<p>I once heard that as a person gets older, more and more organs are not as good as they used to be. As long as some organs are not very critical for her age (e.g., past the child bearing age), the doctor may remove those “parts” that cause more troubles than good. When a person dies, she often dies with fewer organs. This is especially true for women who have more “pipes” due to their heavier child bearing responsibility. (I heard whether the insurance rate should or should not be gender-dependent is a touchy issue in the health insurance industry.) I do not know whether there is some truth in this.</p>
<p>If this is true, we always need surgeons to remove “no-longer-useful pipes.”</p>
<p>And kristin–D1 says that same things about people who in Peds, FP, IM, OB/Gyn, neurology,etc. </p>
<p>She’s glad there are all kinds of interests and personalities in medicine and that one is able to gravitate toward the field(s) one is most temperamentally suited to.</p>
<p>She says radiation oncology would drive batty in a week. So would pathology. But her roomie (she faints at the thought of performing procedures on living creatures) love pathology!</p>