adamantine
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SO! I was super fortunate to be offered admission to a tuition forgiveness + stipend primary care program. It's a great opportunity and I'm very excited.
My issue is whether or not I should ask to be considered for their 3+3 program as well. It's a subset of the scholarship, so I'm not concerned with that part. My issue is if I'm functionally locked into a FM/IM residency with my home program, and since I want to work with children in addition to adults, FM locking off the option to specialize if I so choose after practicing for x number of years as a generalist. I'm not fully opposed to being a generalist! In fact, I like undifferentiated patients & the primary care physician relationship. I think I'm frightened of the commitment, however, if I choose to go FM. The full program has the option to go Med/Peds, which I would pick over FM for breadth. Then again, FM offers the option to do a surgical OB residency and be a true birth-to-death physician, which is appealing.
I'm also a little older than average, and I like the idea of starting or saving for a family at 33 instead of 35 or older. I'm female, so time is a concern for me.
Any advice would be helpful. I'm especially hopeful someone will know if residency programs have a bias against 3 year graduates, meaning I'd really be locked into my home program.
My issue is whether or not I should ask to be considered for their 3+3 program as well. It's a subset of the scholarship, so I'm not concerned with that part. My issue is if I'm functionally locked into a FM/IM residency with my home program, and since I want to work with children in addition to adults, FM locking off the option to specialize if I so choose after practicing for x number of years as a generalist. I'm not fully opposed to being a generalist! In fact, I like undifferentiated patients & the primary care physician relationship. I think I'm frightened of the commitment, however, if I choose to go FM. The full program has the option to go Med/Peds, which I would pick over FM for breadth. Then again, FM offers the option to do a surgical OB residency and be a true birth-to-death physician, which is appealing.
I'm also a little older than average, and I like the idea of starting or saving for a family at 33 instead of 35 or older. I'm female, so time is a concern for me.
Any advice would be helpful. I'm especially hopeful someone will know if residency programs have a bias against 3 year graduates, meaning I'd really be locked into my home program.