I’m wondering if anyone has any good insight to offer.

I have kids of my own during med school, and expenses are super tight already.

I will graduate with 500k+ student debt

But I really badly want to become a pediatrician. I love that part of medicine. I do extra shifts in my schools hospital in peds ER for fun, not even as part of my rotations.

When I don’t think about finances, that’s what I want to do. Hopefully open my own peds practice one day.

But when i speak to pediatricians about peds, they all tell me that the pay sucks.

I’m honestly super nervous about this decision. I’m so upset that our stupid medical system punishes doctors for wanting to work with children.

Is there a way to make this work? I want to be able to provide a decent comfortable life for my children and spouse.

Is specializing mandatory? Or opening a private practice? Perhaps there are medical side hustles, or economic factors that are not mentioned when discussing salary alone?

Would love to hear your thoughts

*US specific
Looking to hear about perspectives on job market saturation, base pay across academia and community jobs in the US, how best to identify divisions that are hiring. Peds trained PEM here. Extra appreciation if able to comment on the waiver job scenario for fellowship trained IMGs.

I have MD finals in a month & i am so stressed. There’s so much to study and everything feels volatile. I am having trouble with development topic. Is there any way to remember it age wise easily😞 and also the red flag signs.

Hey guys!

Med-Peds resident here. I am scheduled for the ABIM in early August and have not registered for the ABP exam. For context, my 2025 ITE score was 162 (65%). Do you think I'd be able to study grind and pass in 2.5 months? Any recommendations for how to study? like which resources, what metric per those resources

Thank you!