Hi everyone,
I’d really appreciate honest advice from ER doctors.
I have two job offers and I’m stuck.
Job 1:
Excellent pay by my country’s standards and a better lifestyle. The downside is the ER cases seem limited: mostly young healthy adults/peds, some OB, very little trauma, no oncology, no geriatrics, and not much complex medicine.
It also offers a pathway to a board certification, but the board is not very strong and may eventually be phased out.
Job 2:
Pay is okay, but the clinical exposure is much better: trauma, resuscitations, complex medical and surgical cases, and a much broader patient population. This is closer to the type of ER medicine I enjoy. I also have friends and old colleagues there.
The downside is no board pathway for now. My country also does not have its own EM board certification, so that matters.
For context, I may apply again for the U.S. Match, but I’ve gone unmatched twice, so I’m trying to make the best decision even if that does not work out.
From your own experience, what would you do?
Would you take the high pay/lifestyle job with a possible board pathway, or the lower-paying job with better cases and clinical growth?