Career Choices

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Career Choices

• Exploring the possibilities

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Early Exposure Experiences

• Experiences during your academic year
• Contact the physician mentor and arrange a time
  to spend in that practice setting
• Provides a quick snapshot of that part of their
  practice
• Good to look at many different experiences

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Summer Early Exposures

• Periods of 2-12 weeks
• Arranged by the student
• Register with S204- Beth Jennings
• Submit form for approval,
• Registration info will be provided in Feb. 2004
• Objectives for the summer experience necessary
• Will appear on your university transcript

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• Student name
• Clinical supervisor
• Dates
• Please describe the early exposure experience
  (site, type of experience, discipline)
• Provide in the space below your objectives for
  your early exposure experience
• Student signature
• Supervisor signature
• Please return completed form to S204
• Approved by
• University registration completed

Please return completed form to S204
Approved by   University registration completed

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Personal Contacts

• Informational interview
• learn about practicing in your specialty area of
  interest
• get a sense of what its like to discuss and
  articulate your career objectives
• gain information about new developments in your
  area of interest
• build a network, ask who else you could speak to

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Questions for your mentor

• How/why did you choose this specialty?
• What do you like most about this specialty?
• What are the various practice settings for this
  specialty?
• How do you balance your career with the rest of
  your life?

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Questions for your mentor

• What are the salary ranges for work in this
  specialty?
• What unique or unadvertised specialty
  associations or contacts exist?
• Are there other recommendations you would make to
  a new physician considering this specialty?

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Questions for your mentor

• What attributes do you think are the most
  important in anyone considering this specialty?
• If you had it to do again would you choose this
  specialty? Why or why not?
• Who else would you suggest that I speak to? Could
  I say that you had referred me?

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CaRMS Programs

• FRCS programs
• FRCP programs
• CCFP programs

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FRCS

• Cardiac surgery
• General surgery
• Neurosurgery
• Obstetrics and gynecology
• Orthopedic surgery
• Otolaryngology
• Plastic surgery
• Thoracic surgery
• Urology

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FRCP

• Anaesthesia
• Community Medicine
• Dermatology
• Diagnostic radiology
• Emergency medicine
• Pathology
• Internal medicine
• Laboratory medicine
• Medical biochemistry
• Medical genetics

• Medical microbiology
• Neurology
• Nuclear medicine
• Occupational medicine
• Pediatrics
• Physical medicine and rehabilitation
• Psychiatry
• Radiation Oncology

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CCFP

• Family practice
• 2 year program
• Options for a third year of training increasingly
  available
• Womens health
• Emergency medicine
• Anaesthesia for the general practitioner
• Palliative care
• Geriatric medicine

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Type of Patient

• General
• Family practice
• Surgery
• Psychiatry
• Dermatology
• Emergency medicine
• Internal medicine

• Specific
• Pediatrics
• Obstetrics and gynecology
• Geriatric medicine
• Urology
• sports medicine

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Type of Patient Contact

• Little or no patient contact
• Community medicine
• Pathology
• Radiology
• Laboratory medicine

• Predominantly patient contact
• Genetics
• Internal medicine
• Surgery
• Obstetrics and gynecology
• Family medicine
• Psychiatry

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Web Sites of Interest

• Gather information about many specialties
  first-think broadly!
• http//www.aamc.org- go to students
• www.carms.org go to programs
• www.rcpsc.medical.org- click on residency
  education, then specialty information.
• Be creative-take turns at considering all
  specialties
• Pick three top considerations
• Speak to faculty or mentors

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Careers in Medicine Web Site

• Public page with limited information
• Password protected area for medical students
• URL www.aamc.org/careersinmedicine
• Student code (case sensitive) 11STU255
• Subsequent entry with your own password
• Interactive site, allows for storing results in a
  personal profile and performing interactive
  decision-making exercises