Is there a website that tells you the various residency/fellowship paths to various subspecialties?

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I am not personally aware of such a list, but for the second question it does depend on the specialty. Some specialties require a certain primary residency before obtaining a particular fellowship (for example, if you want to be a cardiologist, the only pathway is by completing an internal medicine residency first followed by a cardiology fellowship). Other specialties feed from multiple different specialities (for example, if you want to be a sports medicine specialist, you can pursue it by family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine, PM&R; you can do a sports neurology fellowship from neurology; you can do an orthopedic sports fellowship from orthopedic surgery). Other specialities are either you match into it first as a primary residency or later do a fellowship to get that position (for example, plastic surgery. You can match directly into plastic surgery as a residency program or you can pursue general surgery and do a plastic surgery fellowship. These options are becoming less so, as far as I understand, considering plastic surgery, IR, and vascular surgery are now integrated residency programs).

What subspecialties are you interested in?
 
The short answer is no. Some subspecialties have many possible paths, including (in some cases) not actually completing specific training in that subspecialty. Ultimately, it is specific to the subspecialty.
 
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