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Here are the official requirements for an internship:
A minimum of four years of graduate medical education from an allopathic or osteopathic medical school are required. Residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation consists of one year of general clinical training (internship / PGY1) followed by three years of physical medicine and rehabilitation training (PGY2-4). Most residents complete a preliminary medicine, transitional, or surgical internship to fulfill this requirement. Other acceptable internships can be done in family medicine, pediatrics, or a traditional osteopathic internship.
Has anyone ever heard of a resident doing their first year in family medicine?
I tried to look for family medicine internships but all I could find were categorical programs.
Would a family med program that didn't fill during the scramble be open to taking a resident for just one year?
Or is this route only open to people who want to go into family medicine and then change their mind?
Thanks.
A minimum of four years of graduate medical education from an allopathic or osteopathic medical school are required. Residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation consists of one year of general clinical training (internship / PGY1) followed by three years of physical medicine and rehabilitation training (PGY2-4). Most residents complete a preliminary medicine, transitional, or surgical internship to fulfill this requirement. Other acceptable internships can be done in family medicine, pediatrics, or a traditional osteopathic internship.
Has anyone ever heard of a resident doing their first year in family medicine?
I tried to look for family medicine internships but all I could find were categorical programs.
Would a family med program that didn't fill during the scramble be open to taking a resident for just one year?
Or is this route only open to people who want to go into family medicine and then change their mind?
Thanks.