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I'm only an MSII, but I've got a buddy going into surgery with the intent of doing peds surgery, and he's gotten me really interested in it.
We were chatting the other day, and he said something I found curious: That if you're going to do a competitive fellowship (like peds surg) that you NEED to go to a hospital that actually has that fellowship to do your residency (I guess with the intent of flipping right over into the fellowship once finished with the residency).
I disputed this; don't programs see this as "inbreeding"? I would think that most programs would discourage this, and want their students to go elsewhere, and want their fellows to come from other institutions. Thoughts?
We were chatting the other day, and he said something I found curious: That if you're going to do a competitive fellowship (like peds surg) that you NEED to go to a hospital that actually has that fellowship to do your residency (I guess with the intent of flipping right over into the fellowship once finished with the residency).
I disputed this; don't programs see this as "inbreeding"? I would think that most programs would discourage this, and want their students to go elsewhere, and want their fellows to come from other institutions. Thoughts?