ACGME Accreditation/Intern Year

[HerBigBrownEyes]

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I suspect this is a non-issue, but I was wondering if you are required in your intern (in my case transitional year) to have a certain number of medicine months, etc. above that listed as the mininum number for the program for dermatology. The only reason I ask is that a current TY (going into radiology oncology) at the school I'm going to has to have at least 9 clinical months to get credit for the year (in the program I'm going to, we have 6 months of electives). I don't know if there are such requirements for derm. The program I'm going to is pretty cush, so I want to make sure that I make the minimum requirements (of course they are ACGME accredited for a transitional year). I've tried to look it up on the ACGME website without any luck.

 

[asmallchild]

You can always request extra floor months with your elective time to meet the requirements. (I would ask your TY PD as he/she probably should know this information when it comes to time to assemble your schedule) I'm assuming the majority of your remaining TY months have to be floor/tele/ICU months right? 6 months of electives is a lot!