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This is a clerkship I was extremely excited about, because it was a field I was seriously considering going into! In fact, up until my third year Ob\/Gyn rotation I was almost positive I would be a pediatrician some day. The clerkship was a lot of fun and definitely made my decision difficult, but as you already know Ob\/Gyn ended up winning my heart…but not because Pedi let me down.<\/p>\n
This specialty is focused on children, there’s a lot of “normal” in pediatrics and you tend to get to know your patients and their families very well. The residency to become a general pediatrician is 3 years and you can specialize in any number of things, from neonatology to oncology, after you finish.<\/p>\n
Overall, I did really enjoy this clerkship. I loved most of the patients, the parents didn’t bother me, and the work was okay. Nothing about pediatrics really\u00a0fascinated\u00a0<\/em>me the way reproduction and women’s health does and nothing caught my attention\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>heart the way reproductive endocrinology has, but pediatrics is a great field. The hours were tempting, the morale was attractive, and the people were great…but in the end it just wasn’t\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n My Take On The Other Core Clerkships<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Image Credit:\u00a0imagerymajestic<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0FreeDigitalPhotos.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a clerkship I was extremely excited about, because it was a field I was seriously considering going into! In fact, up until my third year Ob\/Gyn rotation I was almost positive I would be a pediatrician some day. The clerkship was a lot of fun and definitely made my decision difficult, but as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,37,38],"tags":[534,79,182,81,212,526,72,372,380,200,197,88,210],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ID-100101978.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3605"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3612,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605\/revisions\/3612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/ws.assoc-amazon.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0071766987&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=minonmed-20\")
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