Anesthesia Intern Year

[Twptophan]

I'm a 4th yr medical student interested in anesthesia. Any advice on whether to spend my intern year in medicine or to do a transitional year? No way I am doing surgery my intern year. I would like to medicine, but I am not sure if thats Kosher for most anesthesia programs. Any advice? Thanks.

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[rsgillmd]

I'm a 4th yr medical student interested in anesthesia. Any advice on whether to spend my intern year in medicine or to do a transitional year? No way I am doing surgery my intern year. I would like to medicine, but I am not sure if thats Kosher for most anesthesia programs. Any advice? Thanks.

I did medicine for my prelim year, and I know many others who did also. You won't have any problems.

I still view my patients as medical patients with surgical solutions to one or more of their problems.

 

[Harrison486]

Would there be any advantage to doing a transitional year rather than a prelim medicine year?

 

[Doctor4Life1769]

Would there be any advantage to doing a transitional year rather than a prelim medicine year?

I'm doing transitional. I think it allows for good change of pace and broad experience with patient population and their conditions/management

 

[Gasworks]

I'm not really sure how much clinical and educational benefit you'll have in a transitional program vs. doing a full year of medicine. I have quite a few colleagues who did transitional years and most did 3 months of medicine, 3 months of surgery and 6 months of fluff like a derm or path rotation. We had transitional interns rotating through during my medicine internship and all they really learned was how to drown in unfamiliar paperwork during their 3 months.

 

[Doctor4Life1769]

I'm not really sure how much clinical and educational benefit you'll have in a transitional program vs. doing a full year of medicine. I have quite a few colleagues who did transitional years and most did 3 months of medicine, 3 months of surgery and 6 months of fluff like a derm or path rotation. We had transitional interns rotating through during my medicine internship and all they really learned was how to drown in unfamiliar paperwork during their 3 months.

My transitional is integrated.

3 months med, 3 months surg, 2 months ICU, 1 month EM, 2 weeks pulm, 1 month peds, 1 month APS, etc

 

[btbam]

I'm friends with a bunch of anesthesia residents, most of whom did medicine for their intern year.

 

[dbth77]

I'm a 4th yr medical student interested in anesthesia. Any advice on whether to spend my intern year in medicine or to do a transitional year? No way I am doing surgery my intern year. I would like to medicine, but I am not sure if thats Kosher for most anesthesia programs. Any advice? Thanks.

If you have the numbers, do a reasonable transitional. These are much harder to match than anesthesia. Be careful because some ty's are worse than med prelim years