<p>for becoming a Ped Anesthesiologist, will i be able to interact with the kids that i am going to be working with? like i mean meetings and visiting my office. Will i work at a private office or a hospital? Am i forced to wear scrubs 24/7?</p>
<p>Is it possibly to do both professions simutaneously? Like a Ped Anesthesiologist in the morning and having a private office for pediatric medicine at night?</p>
<p>plz help me because i really would like answers to these questions!</p>
<p>Well, you won’t be able to do general pediatrics (ie well-child checks, dealing with ear infections, ADHD, asthma, etc) if you go into anesthesia. The issue comes from the fact that in order to go into peds anesthesia, after you graduate med school, you will do a 4 year anesthesia residency program then do a 1 year pediatric anesthesia fellowship. You will not receive any training as a general pediatrician and won’t be eligible to become board certified in Pediatrics.</p>
<p>While most anesthesiologists go into the field in order to be in the OR as much as possible, but there are opportunities to be in the office/hospital ward setting by going into pain management. Pediatric pain management is a bit of an exotic sub-sub-specialty, but I think it’s probably the closest anesthesia option that fulfills your interests.</p>
<p>There is another option, but it’s a little bit more informal in getting what you’re looking for. If you go into a general pediatrics residency, you can follow that with a fellowship in critical care which would allow you to work in a pediatric intensive care unit. As part of that training, most intensivists get a lot of training in sedation, though they aren’t capable of doing full anesthesia like the board certified anesthesiologists are. From there, you could get a lot of opportunities to do anesthesia like things. Then, if you work in a place where they allow you to, you could work in the Emergency Room moonlighting as needed, which would give you some general pediatrics work. This is what some of the peds intensivists do at my residency program. But that’s something that may not be available everywhere.</p>
<p>However, all that said, until you’ve gotten into medical school, I wouldn’t fret too much about making the decision. There’s a lot of experiences and information that you’ll encounter which will help you in the future to make these decisions.</p>
<p>im actually interested in the Pediatric Critical Care specialization. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.aap.org/family/WhatisCriticalCare.pdf[/url]”>Error | AAP;
<p>i found this link which pretty much summed up everything about this specialty!</p>
<p>Is Pediatric Critical care demanding?</p>
<p>Short answer: Yes.</p>
<p>The training is very rigorous, generally requiring you to be on call overnight every 4th night for extended portions of the training.</p>
<p>When finished with training, the lifestyle of an intensivist can vary greatly depending on the hospital they work at.</p>
<p>The one thing to realize is that there is no clinic if you’re an intensivist, you won’t have patients come to an office. That’s why if you’re really tied to that, there may be better options.</p>
<p>The other thing is being an intensivist is that it generally requires, even of attendings, taking call in-house (at the hospital). Though this may depend a little bit on the hospital you work out - at bigger centers it will be required, at smaller units you may be able to take call from home.</p>
<p>If you have other questions let me know. I just started my peds residency, but I plan on pursuing a peds critical care fellowship in a couple years.</p>
<p>No
Two different fields.
As a gas passer you will be at the hospital and see the kids for 10 min before the case and 5 min once awake and that is it. You need to do a residency in anesthesiology after one in peds.
As a pediatrician, you are a primary care doctor and become involved in the kid’s life.
There are many subspecialities of pediatrics. Ped Anesthesiology is not. It is a subspecialty of anesthesiology.</p>
<p>Peds critical care is very exacting. You will deal with a lot of dying kids.</p>
<p>i was think of going into Pediatrics residency then after a few years when i am a bit older, i go for a Anesthesiologist residency then the pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship.</p>
<p>The usual Peds anesthesia route is five years.
PGY 1: med, surg, rotating, or peds (CB; clinical base)
PGY 2-4: Anesthesia residency 3 yrs (CA-1 to CA-3; clinical anesthesia)
PGY 5: Peds anesthesia fellowship 1 yr (CA-4)</p>
<p>As peds anesthesiologist, you could end up with one year of general peds plus your specialty training.</p>
<p>You could do a 3 year peds residency to meet your clinical base requirement.</p>