Internship before Neuro residency?

[drox]

I was thinking if it was possible to do the internship before entering a neurology residency program , during MSIII or MSIV..

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[bustbones26]

I was thinking if it was possible to do the internship before entering a neurology residency program , during MSIII or MSIV..

As far as I know, it is not possible to do internship for any residency while and MSIII or IV.

 

[drox]

Thanks for the reply...what about doing an internship during residency? I came to know that the neurology residency program is about 3 years after a 1 year internship. So cant I do a dual internship and residency within 3 years?

 

[IBleedGreen]

Thanks for the reply...what about doing an internship during residency? I came to know that the neurology residency program is about 3 years after a 1 year internship. So cant I do a dual internship and residency within 3 years?

I don't think you understand what an internship is. My understanding is that a traditional internship is your 1st year of residency after graduating from med school, and it includes Internal Medicine training in the case of neurology residency. Then, your 2nd year you begin the official training in neurology. So no, I wouldn't think it's possible to do both at the same time because they each have different scheduling demands.

 

[manning18]

Drox, no you can NOT do a dual internship and Residency within 3 years. I'm not even sure if I understant what you mean by this, but the answer remains no, regardless. Neurology is what is known as a (1+3) year program. The first year is either a Preliminary Internal Medicine year or a Transitional Year. This Intern year is applied for separately from the Neurology program, though there are some programs that are "integreated" (meaning they save a spot in their Medicine Department for the people that match into their Neurology program). The number of programs is almost certain to increase, now that Neurology has moved from SF Match to ERAS. I do not believe a Surgery Prelim is allowed, though I have not researched this fully. After the Medicine Prelim or Transitional year, one does 3 years of Neurology residency (PGY2-4)

 

[bustbones26]

Everybody must do an internship, regardless of specialty. Now some specialites have it nice, such as the primary care and general surgery guys as their internship years are fast tracked and count toward both internship and first year of residency. This is not the case for most other specialties. You have to do pretty much a transitional year, medicine year, or surgery year before entering most other specialties. Its just part of the game and there is no way around it.

To sit for board certification in neurology, you must do an internship. YOu must do at least six months of internal medicine in that internship (not all wards, can be IM specialties, ICU, CCU, etc.). Don't try to avoid it, as it will be useful to you. Neurology is a medicine specialty, if you admit people to your service as a neurology resident you are expected to manage blood sugars, blood pressures, fluids, electrolytes, etc. Your internship year will be most helpful for preparing you for this. Ultimately, you have to take with USMLE3 or COMPLEX 3 depending on your medical degree, your intenship year will prepare you for this.

Simply put, there is no fast track into neurology like there is for family medicine or general surgery, etc. Do an internship, get it over with, learn, move onto neurology residency. Four years isn't so bad.

 

[mysophobe]

To sit for board certification in neurology, you must do an internship.

To even begin a neurology residency, you must do an internship.

Four years isn't so bad.

Better than 6 or 7. 😉

 

[AznTrojan]

intern year goes by quickly..

only 6 weeks and 3 days left 😀