dumb eras question

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I know that Categorical is 4 years and that Advanced is for your CA-1,CA-2, and CA-3 years. If you match categorical, then what do you do for your intern year? Is it built into the program?

If you match Advanced, then I figure you're on your own for finding your intern year. Right?

Also is supplemental for those that are already in residency and looking for advanced to start in July 2005?
 
undecided05 said:
I know that Categorical is 4 years and that Advanced is for your CA-1,CA-2, and CA-3 years. If you match categorical, then what do you do for your intern year? Is it built into the program?

This is a dumb question. Categorical includes the intern year.

If you match Advanced, then I figure you're on your own for finding your intern year. Right?

Right.

Also is supplemental for those that are already in residency and looking for advanced to start in July 2005?

Huh?
 
undecided05 said:
Also is supplemental for those that are already in residency and looking for advanced to start in July 2005?

No. Supplemental rank order lists refer to the listing of "PGY-1 only" programs (either Preliminary or Transitional Year) that you are interested in linking to an Advanced (PGY-2) spot you are ranking.

If you're interested in doing all your postgraduate training in the same geographical area, this helps you. For instance, your supplemental rank listing for Stanford might have a UCSF internship at #1, whereas your supplemental for Mass General might have a U-Mass internship at #1. Of course there's still no guarantee that you'll match to the internship you've put at the top of your supplemental rank list.

In the particular case of UT-Southwestern in Dallas, they have a Supplemental first-year internship different from the categorical program, that fits within the paradigm of the supplemental rank-order list. There may be some other programs that have this option as well.

"The Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management offers two options for completion of the clinical base year, a categorical position (C) or an advanced supplemental anesthesiology position (S) with the option of an affiliated preliminary internship year at Methodist Hospital of Dallas...For the advanced anesthesia position (S), we offer a clinical base year in a affiliated internship program at Methodist Hospital of Dallas. This program may be ranked with our advanced (S) position without a separate application or interview...In order to provide maximum flexibility for applicants to our residency program, applicants may choose to rank any other preliminary program within the United States in conjunction with our (S) program, with the exception of those for psychiatry, radiology or pathology."
 
my question about the categorical was whether or not you need to apply to an intern year program (ie surgery/medicine/transition year) at that program and do you need to set up different interview dates for those programs or do they have your intern year set up for you already?


And for those programs which don't specify categorical vs advaced etc... those are basically for CA-1, CA-2, and CA-3 years, right?
 
undecided05 said:
my question about the categorical was whether or not you need to apply to an intern year program (ie surgery/medicine/transition year) at that program and do you need to set up different interview dates for those programs or do they have your intern year set up for you already?


And for those programs which don't specify categorical vs advaced etc... those are basically for CA-1, CA-2, and CA-3 years, right?

If the program is categorical you don't need to apply for an intern year, it's included. I would find out what the intern year is though, and use that in my decision. Some programs have pretty brutal medicine or surgery intern years, others are more transitional. Some have a lot of good icu months. All I know is twelve months of ward medicine at some programs would be very painful.

If you're not sure, I'd contact the program to see if it has categorical or advanced or both. If I remember, the programs all have a number associated with them on eras that starts with either c or a. c for categorical, a for advanced.
 
And for those programs which don't specify categorical vs advaced etc... those are basically for CA-1, CA-2, and CA-3 years, right?[/QUOTE]

Not necessarily. Some programs only offer categorical programs (Arkansas for example).
 
"If you're not sure, I'd contact the program to see if it has categorical or advanced or both. If I remember, the programs all have a number associated with them on eras that starts with either c or a. c for categorical, a for advanced." - Thegasman

The problem is that not all the programs have a "number" that starts with c or a. In fact, UTSW, Michigan, Mass Gen, B&W, Emory, and the California programs don't. Anyone know their deal? Thanks.
 
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