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Was talking to a friend who is interviewing for psych this year and the topic of child psych fellowship came up. He said that he was interviewing at a program and the residents at the interview dinner said that in order to do the 3 (adult) + 2 (child) fellowship, residents had to enter what the program called the child fellowship "track." This seemed pretty standard except for one caveat, in order to do so, the residents have to let the program director know that they want to do the child fellowship by January....of intern year. If not, they were forced into doing 4 (adult) + 2 (child) if they wanted to do the fellowship. My first guess was that maybe the program was small. No, they take over 7 residents/year & both their inpatient units have less than 15 beds.
Is this common practice? How would the program expect you to know you want to do the child fellowship by January of intern year, BEFORE you've done a child rotation as a resident? Am I taking crazy pills or does this sound ridiculous? Would this be a deal breaker for you when deciding where to rank the program if you were considering the child fellowship?
Is this common practice? How would the program expect you to know you want to do the child fellowship by January of intern year, BEFORE you've done a child rotation as a resident? Am I taking crazy pills or does this sound ridiculous? Would this be a deal breaker for you when deciding where to rank the program if you were considering the child fellowship?