Internship slots?

[SeminoleFan3]

The Navy only has residencies at Bethesda, San Diego, and Portsmouth right (anything not Family Med.)? What place generally has the most spots? Chance of going to Bethesda?

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[NavyFP]

The Navy only has residencies at Bethesda, San Diego, and Portsmouth right (anything not Family Med.)? What place generally has the most spots? Chance of going to Bethesda?

If memory serves, your looking at IM. Each has 20 intern and 10 resident.

 

[SeminoleFan3]

If memory serves, your looking at IM. Each has 20 intern and 10 resident.

Assuming the 10 residents are split over R2 & R3 (5 each), does that mean only 5 people out of the 20 interns (25%) are picked to train straight through? Are 75% of them actually doing GMO tours? If not, what's happening to them?

 

[NavyFP]

Assuming the 10 residents are split over R2 & R3 (5 each), does that mean only 5 people out of the 20 interns (25%) are picked to train straight through? Are 75% of them actually doing GMO tours? If not, what's happening to them?

No, No. 10 R2s and 10 R3s.

 

[IgD]

If there are 20 x R1 spots, 10 x R2 spots and 10 x R3 spots for Internal Medicine, that suggests a 50% residency completion / graduation rate. It would be interesting to know what happened to the 10 PGY1s. Why didn't they go on to be PGY2s?

 

[backrow]

If there are 20 x R1 spots, 10 x R2 spots and 10 x R3 spots for Internal Medicine, that suggests a 50% residency completion / graduation rate. It would be interesting to know what happened to the 10 PGY1s. Why didn't they go on to be PGY2s?

Well you always have to remember that some of those people who were an IM intern didn't want to do IM in the first place and got stuck in it because they didn't match into a transitional slot. And then there are many who change their mind during internship and apply to something else during GMO time. I would bet that there are not many, if any, people who have to apply more than once for IM from the fleet.

 

[Gastrapathy]

IM has categorical and preliminary interns in the civilian world and it is essentially the same in the Navy (except that the categorical interns still have to reapply).

In general, your chances of going straight-through in IM are better than just about any other specialty but still not 100%. Going straight into fellowship is far less likely.