Welcome to Career Topic Week on Mothers in Medicine! Posts by our regular contributors and readers on specialty choice will be scheduled to ...

How could I have almost passed up the opportunity to post on topic week about a family friendly career? Perhaps because this week I baked f...

How is your specialty family friendly? While OB/GYN has the reputation for being notoriously NOT family friendly , I have tried to shape ...

...but it is brain surgery! Neurosurgery has always seemed to have a certain aura and mystique about it as a specialty. It certainly was gl...

My perspective on being a mother in medicine is a little different than those which have been posted earlier this week. I’ve been at this no...

I am currently in the midst of a fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology, after completing a rigorous anesthesiology residency at a major aca...

At its very worst, that is how it feels. Like two nights ago, while lying in bed with CindyLou, who was bubbling away about her class Chris...

"What, you are going into pathology? But you actually like to talk to people, you are good with patients. Why would you do that?" ...

I fell into hospital medicine rather unexpectedly. I knew I wanted to stay in general internal medicine, but I thought I would be a primary ...

An emergency medicine physician’s schedule is inherently flexible. I can quickly switch a shift with a colleague to accommodate emergencies ...

Hi MiM! First, thank you so much for all of your posts, advice, and stories. I can't tell you how much they have helped me, and I'm ...

As a premedical and then medical student, and even as a resident, I was hell-bent to practice International Health in a third world country....

I have to be honest: I'm a little burned out on writing about what PM&R is and why it's so awesome. I've covered it before b...

I struggled about what to post for topic week. I feel like I should post as a voice of one of the “not family friendly” specialties and a re...

In medical school, I started off wanting to do Family Practice.  I always knew that I wanted to do primary care.  With Family Practice, I wo...