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Sorry for my ignorance on this topic - my lack of knowledge actually makes it difficult for me to phrase my question properly, but here goes:
In the traditional gen surge + fellowship model, you come out as a general surgeon who can also do special thing X, because you did all of your usual generally surgery training and then something extra. Do integrated plastics programs allow you to practice as a general surgeon as well, i.e., would you still get hospital privileges to do appy/lappy? Can you still sit for the gen surge boards?
I understand that probably no one would actually want to take out gallbladders after working hard to match/train in plastics (or CT, or vascular, or other such integrated specialties), but I'm curious as to how the system (in the US) handles the integrated programs.
In the traditional gen surge + fellowship model, you come out as a general surgeon who can also do special thing X, because you did all of your usual generally surgery training and then something extra. Do integrated plastics programs allow you to practice as a general surgeon as well, i.e., would you still get hospital privileges to do appy/lappy? Can you still sit for the gen surge boards?
I understand that probably no one would actually want to take out gallbladders after working hard to match/train in plastics (or CT, or vascular, or other such integrated specialties), but I'm curious as to how the system (in the US) handles the integrated programs.