Internal Med/Card Combined Residency

[StrangerX]

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I was told by someone that combined 5 year IM/card residencies exist but have not been able to locate where. If anyone has any ideas, they would be much appreciated.

 

[henge]

Here is a link to a 2005 article discussing a proposed pilot program for such a combined residency
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/515966

 

[StrangerX]

Yes I saw this, thanks. Any other ideas?

 

[mercaptovizadeh]

Competition would be killer. It would also loosen up competition for straight IM, making it easier for the rest of us to get better spots.

 

[group_theory]

I am unaware of any current combined IM/Cardiology training.

There is the ABIM research pathway, where you do 2 years of Internal Medicine Residency, then proceed to the subspecialty field (cards, GI, nephro). But you don't save any time - that extra time has to be dedicated to research so the start and finish time is the same if you did ABIM research pathway for IM/Cards, or if you did IM then cards fellowship. You'll just have more research experience/publications in the research pathways (which makes you more competitive for academic medicine, pharmaceutical research, perhaps government FDA/DEA/NIH, etc)

http://www.abim.org/certification/policies/research-pathway-policies-requirements.aspx