After Traditional Rotating Internship

[ObGynDO]

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Sorry, this may have been answered somewhere before. A program is offering me a traditional DO rotating internship and says that it will put me in its "Ob/GYN interest track" so that I accumulate enough credit during the internship rotations to gain PGY-2 status the following year. (ie. using electives to do more Ob/gyn rotations and counting ER rotation as ER GYN time) Would the PGY-2 status apply to both osteopathic and allopathic programs? People have told me that this is not possible and that the PD is out of his mind, yet I have heard people tell me that people can match into an Ob/Gyn PGY-2 spot. If someone knows about this or knows a resident who did this can someone please shed some light on this? If it is true, how do you apply to acquire a PGY-2 Ob/Gyn position?

In this case, Does PGY-2 = OGME-2 & AGME-2?

 

[Dancing Doctor]

Sorry, this may have been answered somewhere before. A program is offering me a traditional DO rotating internship and says that it will put me in its "Ob/GYN interest track" so that I accumulate enough credit during the internship rotations to gain PGY-2 status the following year. (ie. using electives to do more Ob/gyn rotations and counting ER rotation as ER GYN time) Would the PGY-2 status apply to both osteopathic and allopathic programs? People have told me that this is not possible and that the PD is out of his mind, yet I have heard people tell me that people can match into an Ob/Gyn PGY-2 spot. If someone knows about this or knows a resident who did this can someone please shed some light on this? If it is true, how do you apply to acquire a PGY-2 Ob/Gyn position?

In this case, Does PGY-2 = OGME-2 & AGME-2?

I am pretty sure that the allopathic programs get to decide where you start. One of the FM residents started as OB/GYN (did her "intern" year), and when she changed to FM she started halfway through her first year. She became a PGY-2 sooner than the other interns in her entering class because she was credited so much for her time in her first year. She said she applied to several programs and some didn't want to credit her experience at all, while others gave her partial or full credit for the year. Osteopathic programs for OB/GYN usually have a linked intern year, and so they'd be likely to credit your traditional year with OB/GYN tracking, but you should make sure with them that you're not required to do "their" internship.

I'd ask the PD to give you names of people who did it/where they went and explain the application process.