How Can You Transfer from Anesthesia to Internal Medicine?

[Doulos]

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Last week I came across a thread (can't find it now) where someone was saying they were burned out doing anesthesia and wanted to switch over to internal medicine.

How can that be done? I was under the impression that once you finish out your residency you are kinda "locked in" to that particular career path.

If not, I'm assuming you'd have to go back for an IM residency as well, right? If so, how many years would you need to invest in that? Would it be a full three years of would your PGY-1 year allow you to cut it down to two?

 

[lazylikeapanda]

you're not locked into any career path. There are attendings at my institution that have done residencies in both anesthesia and internal medicine. Two did anesthesia first and went back for IM and another two who started with IM and then anesthesia. They applied the same way everyone else does, register with NRMP and ERAS, filled out the application, submitted a personal statement, went on interviews and accepted or got accepted to a program.

The ones that went back for IM got to skip out on their PGY 1 year only because they had previously completed an internal medicine intern year.

Since you're pre-med why are you worried about this?

 

[PMPMD]

Last week I came across a thread (can't find it now) where someone was saying they were burned out doing anesthesia and wanted to switch over to internal medicine.

How can that be done?

I think WHY is a better question than HOW