Difference between medicine-X residency vs. just X residency

[Curiousfuturedoc]

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Hi,
I have been trying to understand more about residences but i can't seem to find info on what the differences are / why you would do this? For example I see there are dermatology residences but also
medicine-dermatology residencies. Does this lead to different career outcomes?

 

[lalalallala]

medicine-dermatology residencies are combined residencies in internal medicine and dermatology versus a straight up dermatology residency would be shorter

 

[907914]

Hi,
I have been trying to understand more about residences but i can't seem to find info on what the differences are / why you would do this? For example I see there are dermatology residences but also
medicine-dermatology residencies. Does this lead to different career outcomes?

Basically, a dual residency would allow you to say make bank working part time at a dermatology place, but also follow your true passion of doing 6 am rounds at the hospital.

More practical dual residencies are like IM/CC or IM/Peds

 

[Curiousfuturedoc]

Thanks guys! Yeah I just used derm as an example because alphabetically it was the first one that I saw on the list that had IM/X and just X.
So basically doing IM lets you that specialty in a hospital as well?
Personal, I am interested in psychiatry so I see there is a Psychiatry residency and "medicine-psychiatry" so doing the latter would give me more career options?

sorry if this is a very low level question. I am the 1st person to go to college in my family, let alone medical school so I'm just trying to make sure I understand my options and what I should be doing when starting med school!

 

[907914]

Thanks guys! Yeah I just used derm as an example because alphabetically it was the first one that I saw on the list that had IM/X and just X.
So basically doing IM lets you that specialty in a hospital as well?
Personal, I am interested in psychiatry so I see there is a Psychiatry residency and "medicine-psychiatry" so doing the latter would give me more career options?

sorry if this is a very low level question. I am the 1st person to go to college in my family, let alone medical school so I'm just trying to make sure I understand my options and what I should be doing when starting med school!

It is not necessarily more career options as the vast majority of dual board physicians will work in just one of their two areas. It is moreso for professional development. I will use EM as an example as I know it more thoroughly. If an EM physician does a dual EM/IM residency, then they can work in the ER and have a better understanding of what the floor is going to do with this patient once they move on. ie. They will have a better grasp of the patient's other chronic conditions and potential drug side effects or they can stabilize the pt with different methods that will better prepare the patient for onboarding.

I would think with psychiatry, it would be to expand your scope of practice. For instance, not just thinking about the problems in the brain but tying it back to the patient's diet, or understanding how their diabetes is affecting their cognition etc.

You can work both internist in one specialty and outpatient in another - it is just very difficult.

 

[Curiousfuturedoc]

Thank you so much! That really helped