Internship Requirements for ABPN

[kateortamar]

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Exactly what are the components that are required of an internship to allow one to sit for the Neuro boards. The ABPN website basically just says "one year of internal medicine" or an internship including at least 6 months of internal medicine, as if it is a categorical internship from another residency program.
So I've heard 8 months of IM, 9 months of IM. What exactly is required?

 

[Nerdoscience]

It can be any residency program (transitional year, for example) as long as it provides:
1. 6 months of inpt internal medicine (includes consults and subspecialties).
2. Total of 8 months of either all internal medicine, or up to 1 month of ER and/or 1 month of Peds.
3. No more than 2 months of Neurology.

Technically, it could be a categorical medicine position. You would need to officially switch out of that program, and find a PGY-2 opening in Neurology if you did that since you can't match into both a categorical and a prelim medicine year.

 

[kateortamar]

It can be any residency program (transitional year, for example) as long as it provides:
1. 6 months of inpt internal medicine (includes consults and subspecialties).
2. Total of 8 months of either all internal medicine, or up to 1 month of ER and/or 1 month of Peds.
3. No more than 2 months of Neurology.

Technically, it could be a categorical medicine position. You would need to officially switch out of that program, and find a PGY-2 opening in Neurology if you did that since you can't match into both a categorical and a prelim medicine year.

Great. That helps a lot. Thanks.

 

[gallant2m]

besides the 6 months medicine, could be 1 month er, 1 month peds, 1 month family, pretty much a month that u are the primary caregiver.

 

[ariwax]

So, then, a PGY-1 year of FP (consisting of 3 months IM, 2 months each of ICU/CCU, surg, and peds, and one month each of OB, emergency and office-based FP) wouldn't satisfy the requirements?

 

[bustbones26]

So, then, a PGY-1 year of FP (consisting of 3 months IM, 2 months each of ICU/CCU, surg, and peds, and one month each of OB, emergency and office-based FP) wouldn't satisfy the requirements?

Almost, just one more month of an IM specialty, and you are set!

My schedule for intern year, and yes it counts:

Infectious Disease
Neurology Ward
Emergency Med
General Surg
CCU
Family Medicine Clinic
Vascular Surgery
Pediatrics
ICU
Internal Medicine Ward
Rheumatology
Gynecology
Internal Medicine Clinic

As you can see, did EM and PEDS,
My Internal Medicine Months: IM Ward, IM Clinic, ICU, CCU, Rheum, ID, all together, six months of internal medicine

 

[gallant2m]

actually, you said 2 each of ICU and CCU. if that's true, which seems unlikely to me, then you would be fine, as far as i know, as that is 7 months, plus ur peds, er.

 

[ariwax]

Nope, unfortunately it's just two months split between the ICU and CCU.