Duration of Residencies??????

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For internal medicine, ckent actually compiled a great FAQ for the internal medicine forum. He lists lengths of training for IM subspecialities after the initial three years for general IM.

Internal Medicine FAQ
 
Any time I need information about residencies I start here:

www.abms.org

It's the American Board of Medical Specialties, and if they don't have the information you want then you can find it somewhere in their links section.
 
Radiology

umm... it says... 5 years with 4 years diagnostic.. is that a total of 9 years? or is it 5 years and during those 5 years u have to serve 4 years diagnostic
 
speaking of residencies, let's say you want to be dual certified in radiology and emergency med, do you have to do 2 residencies? are they simultaneous?
 
I am going to move this into the General Residency issues just so you can talk to some residents about this issue...Please follow the redirect there.
 
Originally posted by sgilani
speaking of residencies, let's say you want to be dual certified in radiology and emergency med, do you have to do 2 residencies? are they simultaneous?
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They are completely separate; in my (EM) program, in fact, they've taken the one elective block, and made it a radiology block. Otherwise, EM docs get all their rads in passing.

I know of one doc that did rads, then EM; he should stay away from living patients (in my opinion).
 
Originally posted by kmnfive
anyone know how long radiology takes?
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5 years after med school. 1 yr preliminary internal medicine + 4 years of radiology training
 
Originally posted by sgilani
speaking of residencies, let's say you want to be dual certified in radiology and emergency med, do you have to do 2 residencies? are they simultaneous?
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why would you want to do both?

if you have the option, go for radiology.
 
so what is everyone going for? in terms in res. programs. (that is if you are already in one, or about to graduate)
 
Originally posted by kmnfive
Radiology

umm... it says... 5 years with 4 years diagnostic.. is that a total of 9 years? or is it 5 years and during those 5 years u have to serve 4 years diagnostic
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Total of 5 years - first year is a Prelim year (either Prelim Med or Surg) followed by 4 years for Diagnostic Rads. If you want to do Interventional, its another year or two after the basic 5 years.
 
Path is 4 years, no prelim or transitional year. Fellowships are mostly 1 year after that (a few are 2 years).
 
Dermatology is competitive (apart from the lifestyle issues) because there are few residency spots (as compared with radiology) and so can be considered more competitive than radiology. You can't compare it to 'cardio' which I assume you either mean cardiology or cardiac surgery since both of those are fellowships after residency for which there is no match process.
 
ok now im royally confused.

whats the deal with residencies versus fellowships?

there are 2 types?

so for the more involved specialties you have to go through a res. then a felllow?

hmmmmM ***scracthes head***
 
Yes, a fellowship is a training period completed after completion of a residency. A good website to see a list of both of these is www.careermd.com . You can search for most of the residencies and fellowships offered.
 
Originally posted by kmnfive
ok now im royally confused.

whats the deal with residencies versus fellowships?

there are 2 types?

so for the more involved specialties you have to go through a res. then a felllow?

hmmmmM ***scracthes head***
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Yep.

For example, the following are some fellowships you might pursue for further specialization AFTER a General Surgery residency (NB: the lists below are NOT complete, just to give some examples):

Cardiothoracic Surgery
Vascular
Transplant
Plastic and Reconstructive
Pediatric
Surgical Oncology
Trauma and/or Critical Care
Breast
Colorectal
Hand
Burns
Laparoscopic

Orthopedic or Neurosurgery residents may continue their training with fellowships in Spine or Upper/Lower Extremity Surgery

Internal Medicine residents often seek further fellowship training after their IM residency in Cardiology (with further training again in Interventional Cards or Electrophysiology), Gastrointestinal, Heme-Onc, Rheumatology, Endocrinology, Nephrology, Immunology, ID, Critical Care, etc.

Those wishing to treat only Peds may add on a year of fellowship training to their training in Neurology, Psychiatry, Heme-Onc, etc.

Radiologists may further their training with some time doing Interventional Rads, Body Imaging/MRI, Breast Imaging, Chest, etc.

Hope this helps..and gives you some idea of what's out there.
 
ok another question.

whats the situation with competition of residencies? is it just how well you do on your boards / med school grades / LOR from med school?
 
Originally posted by kmnfive
ok another question.

whats the situation with competition of residencies? is it just how well you do on your boards / med school grades / LOR from med school?
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Pretty much - although some will include other ephemera like AOA, research, audition rotations, etc. in the more competitive specialties.
 
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