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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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
