<p>What is the best area to pursue if you goal is to be a privately practicing physician, working from your home, or making house calls, and charging what you want? Note: this would not be in the US. Mainly, I'm thinking of clients who are too poor to go to hospitals.</p>
<p>Physiology
Neurophysiology
Human Anatomy & Histology and Embryology
Pathogenic Biology
Pathology and Pathophysiology
Pediatrics
Emergency Medicine</p>
<p>my best guest would be emergency medicine or family doc</p>
<p>I'm not sure what this question is asking...and I think it shows a fundamental lack of understanding at the type of education physicians, not only in the US, but around the world receive.</p>
<p>Physicians learn a lot of basic science that includes the first five things on your list. They may forget a lot of it, and they'll have areas that they feel stronger in than others, but I can't imagine seeing patients without having a decent foundation in all of those things - if only so that I may understand what other doctors are discussing when it comes to my patients and how it impacts their care. You can't just say "I'm going to study this one area and it's going to make me a good doctor for doing ____________". </p>
<p>Now in terms of Pediatrics and ER...and I'm going to assume that should also include other categories like internal medicine, and family medicine. That's, at least in the US, getting into the actual on-the-job training of residency. Medical students will get experience in a lot of different fields (typically internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, OB/GYN and surgery at a minimum) as students, but in terms of really becoming one type of physician, that occurs after medical school.</p>
<p>To practice what you've described, you need to be broadly based, and realize that there's a lot of overlap, but also significant differences. Do you only want to treat sick people? Or do you want treat sick people but also provide counseling to patients on how to stay healthy? Do you want to avoid working with kids? Or is helping parents provide a safe, healthy environment for their children something that you'd find rewarding?</p>
<p>The answers to these questions are important. If you only want deal with people who are sick and avoid all the teaching that physicians have the opportunity to do, then Emergency medicine might be a better fit. If counseling patients and getting to know them and who they are matters to you, then EM is not a great choice. If you hate working with kids, don't go into pediatrics. If you want to deal with everyone, from birth to age 108 and everyone in between then family medicine is more appropriate.</p>