can Residency years decrease?

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If i finished residency in my home country in IM and I want to take residency in USA also in IM, do I have to finish the three years, or it can be decreased due to my previous experience?

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white coated said:
If i finished residency in my home country in IM and I want to take residency in USA also in IM, do I have to finish the three years, or it can be decreased due to my previous experience?

Thank you in Advance.
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I have heard of it happening on rare occasions, but it is program specific.
 
If you're an exceptional candidate that the institution wants to keep (let's say you have tone of grants, publish like crazy...) you can get board certified without going through the residency/fellowship in the US.
Plenty of cases out there.
 
white coated said:
If i finished residency in my home country in IM and I want to take residency in USA also in IM, do I have to finish the three years, or it can be decreased due to my previous experience?

Thank you in Advance.
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In most cases the answer is going to be no. I've seen a number of folks with a decade of practice experience starting over as an intern. Unless, as the prior poster indicated, you have some exceptional and atypical number of big grants, expect your prior experience to be ignored.
 
white coated said:
If i finished residency in my home country in IM and I want to take residency in USA also in IM, do I have to finish the three years, or it can be decreased due to my previous experience?

Thank you in Advance.
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There is a possible loophole through fellowships.

I met a lady from germany who had just completed a neurosurgery residency in europe and got accepted into a neurosurgery fellowship in St. Louis. The only stipulation in her contract with the St. Louis hospital was that she take and pass all three steps of the USMLE.

I assume that she will likewise be required to take and pass the neurosurgery boards as well, but I'm not exactly sure (I know that to take the general surgery boards, you must have completed/be currently in a gen surg residency). Technically speaking, you only have to pass the USMLE to practice any medicine in the US (assuming, of course, that you have a hospital willing to authorize privileges to operate).
 
white coated said:
If i finished residency in my home country in IM and I want to take residency in USA also in IM, do I have to finish the three years, or it can be decreased due to my previous experience?

Thank you in Advance.
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Which country?
 
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