<p>Hey, I have a question guys. I noticed you guys are very informative so i'm asking you guys directly. </p>
<p>I was looking into premed and specialization regimes. and I was wondering how one would specialize in "infectious diseases" the site I went to was : </p>
<p>The line that interested me most was that it was the "medical detective" i was just wondering if that were true. IF the infectious disease people were the ones who take up the hard cases, and sort of have control of the case it self.
How does one do infectious disease and also specialize in something else at the same time, say Nephrology or something. </p>
<p>Is there a career in ID? Do they lead teams of doctors? and how rare is it for a case to require a ID when a case cannot be diagnosed, or are most cases diagnosed right away. </p>
<p>Thanks!! look forward to hearing back from you.</p>
<p>I don't have my computer with me (I'm on campus) and don't have access to my residency info. I also have a test on saturday morning that I'm preparing for, so I'm not in a position this week to spend a lot of time helping you. I'll get to this next week if it hasn't been answered.</p>
<p>I think the "leading a team of physicians" is going to be something that happens more at major, regional academic medical centers or someplace like Mayo that get the sickest of the sick referred to them when their local docs can't find an answer.</p>
<p>1.) There is a career in ID. Paul Farmer is one such doctor. Most specialties will lead a team often/always when the disease is serious enough.</p>
<p>2.) It is always possible for you to do two specialties, and some specialties lend themselves to combinations (radiation oncology, for example). I think ID/nephrology would have to be done separately. (Is it just a coincidence that this is House's combination?)</p>
<p>3.) Most doctors have to play detective at some point anyway. Radiologists make a career playing detective. Primary care doctors and ER doctors (not the same as trauma) spend a great deal of their energy diagnosing, since they are exposed to a broad spectrum of possible diseases. (They also spend a lot of time referring, since they are... well, exposed to a broad spectrum of possible diseases and couldn't possibly be trained in them all.)</p>
<p>Hey, what do you mean "house's combination". Im not at med school yet so i dont know the lingo for house. I was just looking it up on the net, and that was what interested me the most. </p>
<p>When I was taking biology those were my two favorite units, virus's and diseases etc, and kidney related things. </p>
<p>Are you positive mike that you can't take both ?</p>
<p>Another question. WHat is the best undergrad program to take before MEd school. Biology, Biochemistry, behavioral neurosciences (what exactly is this, and is it good, and is it good for pre neurosurgeon, or completely unrelated). </p>
<p>While going through med school, to be a ID specialist it says 13 years usually. Does this mean i wont be making a dime until i am in my 30's when i graduate, or after i graduate med school and do specialization, do i work as a doctor during that time, etc and gain prestiege. sorry for me spelling not from english speaker.</p>
<p>1.) Your major doesn't matter, statistically speaking. You might want to learn more about your eventually desired field, but the truth is that that changes so much anyway during med school that it's probably not wise to make impt. decisions off of it.</p>
<p>2.) You pay tuition for four years. You make about as much as a waiter for the period of your residency. In this case, I believe that your number (13) is probably reflecting four years undergrad, four years med school, three years residency in internal medicine, and then two years fellowship in ID. During those three years and then two years, you'd be making between $40-$55K per year. Not poverty. But also not great money.</p>
<p>3.) I'm officially suspicious or amused, but probably both. House's first name on the show is Greg, meaning that GregH happens to have mimicked his name.</p>
<p>what u sayin bout my name? my last name is howard . Greg howard. I dont understand the word mimicked. </p>
<p>but while im doing residency, do i work as a doctor. becuz im kinda late starting undergrad for different reasons. Im going to be 21 by the time i enter my undergrad, therefore ill be like 34 by the time im DONE.</p>
<p>THAT SEEMS SO OLD!!!! what do i do? should i just not do it. That seems like ive waited too long, my life would suck if i mised the prime years of my life dun you think?</p>
<p>well u gave me some courage yet! your not just making that up to make me feel better or stay focused into the thing are you. what would be 5 years other than neurosurgery. unless u plan to sub specialize in a specialty. thats a LONG time! 36...wow.</p>