Combined surgery/medicine residencies?

[NRAI2001]

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Are there such things as combined IM and Gen surg. residencies? I am interested in both fields, is there anyway I can combine the two?

 

[ntmed]

Are there such things as combined IM and Gen surg. residencies? I am interested in both fields, is there anyway I can combine the two?

I also liked IM and GS, so I can understand where you are coming from. But there are no residencies that combine the 2.

However, IM and GS overlap in critical care medicine (3 yr IM + 2 yr CC vs. 5 yr GS + 1 yr CC). So if your interest is in critical care medicine, and you want to do surgery as well, you could do the GS critical care route.

 

[NRAI2001]

That would be awesome if they had some sort of 6 or 7 year combined deal.

 

[AJM]

There are some medical subspecialties that are more procedural, as well as some surgical subspecialties where you can deal with a lot of medical issues. As examples, if you want to do medicine but be more of an interventionalist, you can specialize in cardiology, GI, or pulmonary/critical care. If you want to do surgery but want to also deal with a lot of medicine in your practice, you can do things like surgical critical care, transplant, CT surgery, or vascular surgery.

I also was in the same situation as you -- forced to choose between IM and surgery at the end of my 3rd year of med school. It's definitely a hard decision. I ended up going into IM with plans to specialize in one of the procedural specialties, and am very happy with my choice. Having just started my pulmonary/cc fellowship this last week, I've been pleasantly surprised to find that the specialty is way more interventional than I had even expected. IMO it's a great specialty to think about for someone who has surgical leanings but doesn't want to be a surgeon.

 

[NRAI2001]

There are some medical subspecialties that are more procedural, as well as some surgical subspecialties where you can deal with a lot of medical issues. As examples, if you want to do medicine but be more of an interventionalist, you can specialize in cardiology, GI, or pulmonary/critical care. If you want to do surgery but want to also deal with a lot of medicine in your practice, you can do things like surgical critical care, transplant, CT surgery, or vascular surgery.

I also was in the same situation as you -- forced to choose between IM and surgery at the end of my 3rd year of med school. It's definitely a hard decision. I ended up going into IM with plans to specialize in one of the procedural specialties, and am very happy with my choice. Having just started my pulmonary/cc fellowship this last week, I've been pleasantly surprised to find that the specialty is way more interventional than I had even expected. IMO it's a great specialty to think about for someone who has surgical leanings but doesn't want to be a surgeon.

Wow, thats awesome.