ID Pathology

[johnathanbarefoot25]

I am currently working towards getting a MD/PhD one day, I would prefer DO/PhD but I would like to work internationally, and plan on going into clinical/anatomical Pathology. The ID specialists that I have shadowed told me it would be best to enter an internal medicine residency before entering in an infectious disease one. The pathologist that I shadowed for said that it would be unlikely for me to get accepted in an ID fellowship. Does anyone know if pathologists are generally denied ID fellowships?

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[octopusprime]

A. No one is going to care whether you're a DO/PhD or an MD/PhD [except maybe internationally]...not sure what advantage a DO confers over an MD...
B. ...there's no such thing as a pathology ID fellowship...you can do a microbiology fellowship, in which case you're better off just doing a CP residency...

slow down there, partner...sounds like you have a looooong ways to go before even making those kinds of decisions, get through medical school first.

 

[gbwillner]

I am currently working towards getting a MD/PhD one day, I would prefer DO/PhD but I would like to work internationally, and plan on going into clinical/anatomical Pathology. The ID specialists that I have shadowed told me it would be best to enter an internal medicine residency before entering in an infectious disease one. The pathologist that I shadowed for said that it would be unlikely for me to get accepted in an ID fellowship. Does anyone know if pathologists are generally denied ID fellowships?

I've never heard anyone ever say they would prefer a DO over an MD. This confers only a liability in terms of getting proper residency or fellowship.

If you want to treat patients with interesting infectious diseases, do a Medicine residency and then an ID fellowship. If you want to study interesting organisms or run a clinical ID lab, do a PhD in Microbiology and then a clinical fellowship in micro.

 

[johnnyb255]

If you want to treat patients with interesting infectious diseases, do a Medicine residency and then an ID fellowship. If you want to study interesting organisms or run a clinical ID lab, do a PhD in Microbiology and then a clinical fellowship in micro.

Perhaps of interest for those who want to do both, the 'Commonwealth system' countries have dual training ID Physician and Microbiologist programs.

Australian example- Infectious Disease and Microbiology

 

[bauber]

Look up the infectious disease pathology branch at the CDC. I spent a month there, it was great. Great pathologists who travel the world and do high level work in ID.

 

[LADoc00]

We need to start strange posts like this with "I LIVE IN COUNTRY X, NEED ADVICE" or else this is a waste of time reading this and responding.

DO/Phd programs are rare in the US....