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Fellowships that change the job

Each is 1 to 2 extra years after residency.

• Critical care medicine

  Run the ICU (intensive care unit). A separate Royal College subspecialty.

• Pain medicine

  Chronic pain clinics, nerve blocks, regular hours.

• Cardiac anesthesia

  Open-heart surgery cases. Long, intense, well paid.

• Pediatric or obstetric anesthesia

  Children's hospitals, or epidurals and caesareans on the labour floor.