Super late to the party but Neurology actually has as many subspecialties as Internal Medicine does, most of which are highly specific like Stroke Neurology is. Epilepsy, Neuro-immunology, Movement Disorders, Neuromuscular Disorders, Cognitive Neurology/Behavioral Neurology/Neuropsychiatry for example. Headache Medicine is its own subspecialty as well.
So about 10 years into my career as an Internist I discovered Palliative Medicine after a grand rounds at my hospital with a physician from Mt Sinai. I was immediately drawn to it as I enjoy making connections to my older patients with chronic illness and found out how much patient's quality of life improves with this kind of direct care and even house calls!! At the time I decided to focus on this specialty the AAHPM was allowing physicians to "grandfather" into Palliative by doing three things: join a palliative group in a hospital (a friend of mine was a NP at a local hospital in Pall med so I joined her group), have 50 patients that could be considered "palliative" or hospice (that was easy after 10 years of private practice!) and pass the AAHPM boards which I was able to do in 2010. (the last year for grandfathering was 2012 so I managed to take the boards in advance just in case!!) I have been working with a hospital based Palliative Care team since 2013 and absolutely love it. One of the things I enjoy is that my work makes a HUGE difference to so many of my patients! I can use my IM skills to deduce what is happening, how to manage the symptoms from a clinical perspective and help to transition patients and families to an acceptable medical plan as their disease progresses and their condition declines. We have also started an OP clinic and I have recently become involved in hospice as well which I didn't think I would enjoy but allows me to work with some amazing nurses and APPs who dedicate their careers to caring for those with a short term prognosis. The medical world is very fragmented in the US and Palliative and Hospice medicine is one way of helping to "defragment" this world for so many chronically ill patients' It is an extremely satisfying career!
What an awesome description! Thank you so much for sharing your experience in palliative and hospice, I feel like it’s a very behind-the-scenes specialty that deserves way more attention!
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Super late to the party but Neurology actually has as many subspecialties as Internal Medicine does, most of which are highly specific like Stroke Neurology is. Epilepsy, Neuro-immunology, Movement Disorders, Neuromuscular Disorders, Cognitive Neurology/Behavioral Neurology/Neuropsychiatry for example. Headache Medicine is its own subspecialty as well.
So about 10 years into my career as an Internist I discovered Palliative Medicine after a grand rounds at my hospital with a physician from Mt Sinai. I was immediately drawn to it as I enjoy making connections to my older patients with chronic illness and found out how much patient's quality of life improves with this kind of direct care and even house calls!! At the time I decided to focus on this specialty the AAHPM was allowing physicians to "grandfather" into Palliative by doing three things: join a palliative group in a hospital (a friend of mine was a NP at a local hospital in Pall med so I joined her group), have 50 patients that could be considered "palliative" or hospice (that was easy after 10 years of private practice!) and pass the AAHPM boards which I was able to do in 2010. (the last year for grandfathering was 2012 so I managed to take the boards in advance just in case!!) I have been working with a hospital based Palliative Care team since 2013 and absolutely love it. One of the things I enjoy is that my work makes a HUGE difference to so many of my patients! I can use my IM skills to deduce what is happening, how to manage the symptoms from a clinical perspective and help to transition patients and families to an acceptable medical plan as their disease progresses and their condition declines. We have also started an OP clinic and I have recently become involved in hospice as well which I didn't think I would enjoy but allows me to work with some amazing nurses and APPs who dedicate their careers to caring for those with a short term prognosis. The medical world is very fragmented in the US and Palliative and Hospice medicine is one way of helping to "defragment" this world for so many chronically ill patients' It is an extremely satisfying career!
What an awesome description! Thank you so much for sharing your experience in palliative and hospice, I feel like it’s a very behind-the-scenes specialty that deserves way more attention!
Interventional Neuroradiology is something pretty cool too
100% agree!
Informative.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you.
Love these videos! It is so fun to see specialties med students are normally not exposed to. Your videos are so entertaining!
Thank you so much!! 😊
Happy New Year 2022.