Does my TY year qualify for a preliminary year?

[Drhappyface]

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My months are
Pulmonology
Elective-Neuro
Night Float
Cardiology
IM inpatient
ICU
Elective
Surgery
FM inpatient
Urgent Care
Night Float


Does thus meet the requirement? I'm deciding what to do with my elective month. Do I need another month of a IM Elective? (Currently at 5 months (pulm, Cardiology, Night Float x2, IM inpatient) if you don't count the inpatient FM month)

 

[elanmorin]

You'll get plenty of neuro in pgy2 and beyond. ED and ID are good learning rotations. Endo and Rheum are more laid back options. Anesthesia if you're interested in procedures.

 

[MeddPerson]

Every time Drhappyface posts questions about his/her transitional year and how to get it to count as a PGY-1 so he/she can transition to a "Physician-only/PGY-2" spot, nobody seems to know the answer but chimes in with incorrect advice anyway. I'm gonna have to jump in. By the way, Drhappyface, I hope the interview trail is going well and that you are finding interviews for PGY-2 positions starting in July since you do qualify for them contrary to advice on the last thread about that.

To answer your question, for a neuro-aproved intern year, ACGME requires 8 months of internal medicine or 6 months of internal medicine with the remaning two months substituted for any combination of emergency, family or pediatrics. You also can't do more than 4 months of neurology.

Another common incorrect assumption is that "internal medicine" means inpatient wards. There is actually no requirement that it be inpatient wards. People have counted anything in an internal medicine department, including outpatient, subspecies, night float and ICU as "internal medicine."

So for your situation, you may or may not need to fix one month on your schedule.

In your situation, I count six months of IM (Pulm, 2 night floats, wards, cardiology, ICU) and one month of family medicine (inpatient). If the urgent care rotation is housed in an IM, EM, or FM department, you're good to go. Your new neurology program will need a list of your rotations during intern year, so make sure your TY program director/coordinator mentions on that list that the urgent care rotation was in an IM, EM, or FM department so that somebody can't say later that your urgent care rotation didn't count. But also, if it isn't housed in one of the previously mentioned departments, then you're going to have to make sure your elective is IM (anything in IM), FM, EM, or peds.

I also second that endo is a chill and relevant rotation if you need to add one. Half the inpatient neuro census will be obese diabetics. There's also a lot of incidental hypothyroidism findings on labs and incidental thyroid nodules that they find on CTA head and neck.

 

[elanmorin]

My advice above was accurate. He has enough months of IM(6)+FM+UC to do whatever he wants with his electives. Idk why he isn't counting ICU as an IM rotation.

 

[Drhappyface]

Every time Drhappyface posts questions about his/her transitional year and how to get it to count as a PGY-1 so he/she can transition to a "Physician-only/PGY-2" spot, nobody seems to know the answer but chimes in with incorrect advice anyway. I'm gonna have to jump in. By the way, Drhappyface, I hope the interview trail is going well and that you are finding interviews for PGY-2 positions starting in July since you do qualify for them contrary to advice on the last thread about that.

To answer your question, for a neuro-aproved intern year, ACGME requires 8 months of internal medicine or 6 months of internal medicine with the remaning two months substituted for any combination of emergency, family or pediatrics. You also can't do more than 4 months of neurology.

Another common incorrect assumption is that "internal medicine" means inpatient wards. There is actually no requirement that it be inpatient wards. People have counted anything in an internal medicine department, including outpatient, subspecies, night float and ICU as "internal medicine."

So for your situation, you may or may not need to fix one month on your schedule.

In your situation, I count six months of IM (Pulm, 2 night floats, wards, cardiology, ICU) and one month of family medicine (inpatient). If the urgent care rotation is housed in an IM, EM, or FM department, you're good to go. Your new neurology program will need a list of your rotations during intern year, so make sure your TY program director/coordinator mentions on that list that the urgent care rotation was in an IM, EM, or FM department so that somebody can't say later that your urgent care rotation didn't count. But also, if it isn't housed in one of the previously mentioned departments, then you're going to have to make sure your elective is IM (anything in IM), FM, EM, or peds.

I also second that endo is a chill and relevant rotation if you need to add one. Half the inpatient neuro census will be obese diabetics. There's also a lot of incidental hypothyroidism findings on labs and incidental thyroid nodules that they find on CTA head and neck.

Thank you so much!! I really appreciate the time you took to answer this. It means a lot to me. Yes! So far I'm at 9 IV and one waitlist and hoping I get a few more in the upcoming month or so!

 

[Drhappyface]

My advice above was accurate. He has enough months of IM(6)+FM+UC to do whatever he wants with his electives. Idk why he isn't counting ICU as an IM rotation.

Awesome! Thank you!