Hello Rheumatologists?
I'm an M2 who was drawn to medicine thanks to a deep passion for immunology. I've been set on Rheumatology for the past 3 years now out of heart. I have a laundry list of autoimmune diseases in my family, and the immunological toolbox and space left uncharted is much more interesting to me.
if you're a rheumatologist
— are you practicing at an academic or community hospital? is it specialized (e.g. orthopedics)? private practice or something else? WHY did you pick it?
— do you own a business? work with pharma or startups?
— where did you train? (academic vs. community)
— is rheum research funded? are there grants for interested MD PIs?
— do you still moonlight? is it "enough"? do you get FOMO? the Medscape reports the median salary of a rheum to be lower than IM...
— I am not going into Rheum for the MSK/orthopedics... no thanks. I want to work on the systemic inflammatory diseases. will I be missing out on the only money in the field? is it lost for me? help!
I don't know what I don't know.