OB/GYN fellowship after IM residency???

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I've heard that after Family Medicine residencies you can apply for an OB/GYN fellowship to get further/more extensive training in women's health (ex: training in preforming C-sections). But what about an OB/GYN fellowship after an IM residency??? I would like to match into an IM residency, but I feel like I will miss out on basic OB/GYN skills like knowing how to deliver a baby.

(I know some people may say that I should just apply to a Family Medicine program, but I really like the critical care/inpatient aspect of IM, which is why I prefer it more than Family Medicine and would rather match IM).

THANKS! =)

 

[dadaddadaBATMAN]

I've heard that after Family Medicine residencies you can apply for an OB/GYN fellowship to get further/more extensive training in women's health (ex: training in preforming C-sections). But what about an OB/GYN fellowship after an IM residency??? I would like to match into an IM residency, but I feel like I will miss out on basic OB/GYN skills like knowing how to deliver a baby.

(I know some people may say that I should just apply to a Family Medicine program, but I really like the critical care/inpatient aspect of IM, which is why I prefer it more than Family Medicine and would rather match IM).

THANKS! =)

So this sounds very much like a 1st/2nd year pipe dream, or potentially very early third year silliness (no offense intended). It's the type of stuff that creates a combined anesthesia/emergency medicine residency. If you are really interested in doing any level of ob/gyn as an IM person (as in deliveries), I can't see that happening unless it's a critical access hospital. If there is a "real" ICU that needs an intensivist, then it probably won't be without an obstetrician, which means an internist delivering babies = very strange.

If you're at a critical access hospital, you're probably better off being a family practitioner where obstetrics is a part of your residency training as well.

Family practitioners in that sort of setting will have some amount of critical care and emergency medicine as part of their practice.

 

[235009]

Internists delivering babies isn't a thing. You don't learn obstetrics in IM. It's a different specialty for a reason.


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[deafdealer]

Should've went midlevel, then you could've switched to any specialty you wanted whenever you wanted, with complete competency of course

 

[Donald Juan]

Go family med, live in a rural area. You can treat inpatients, OBs, ED, whatever you want.

 

[Lee Ik-jun MD]

I've heard that after Family Medicine residencies you can apply for an OB/GYN fellowship to get further/more extensive training in women's health (ex: training in preforming C-sections). But what about an OB/GYN fellowship after an IM residency??? I would like to match into an IM residency, but I feel like I will miss out on basic OB/GYN skills like knowing how to deliver a baby.

(I know some people may say that I should just apply to a Family Medicine program, but I really like the critical care/inpatient aspect of IM, which is why I prefer it more than Family Medicine and would rather match IM).

THANKS! =)

There's actually a fellowship in Obstetrics Medicine for internist.
my wife did it.
one is sponsored by Brown University and the training hospital is in Providence, Rhode Island
Women and Infant's hospital RI
since it's a fellowship of IM, it's mostly non surgical management.

if you really like to do OB, then do an OB-GYN residency after Internal medicine.
you can be board certfied for both.

i have a friend who did internal medicine residency, practiced as a hospitalist for 4 years
then she did a dermatology residency.. and now she's happy.

 

[Donald Juan]

There's actually a fellowship in Obstetrics Medicine for internist.
my wife did it.
one is sponsored by Brown University and the training hospital is in Providence, Rhode Island
Women and Infant's hospital RI
since it's a fellowship of IM, it's mostly non surgical management.

if you really like to do OB, then do an OB-GYN residency after Internal medicine.
you can be board certfied for both.

i have a friend who did internal medicine residency, practiced as a hospitalist for 4 years
then she did a dermatology residency.. and now she's happy.

I'm interested to know what your wife does with her IM/OB fellowship training. Have they benefited her career? Does she use them in some unique way that an OB/GYN or IM doctor doesn't?

 

[Lee Ik-jun MD]

I'm interested to know what your wife does with her IM/OB fellowship training. Have they benefited her career? Does she use them in some unique way that an OB/GYN or IM doctor doesn't?

OB medicine is not that popular here in the states, but it is in Australia, Canada ( i think) and Europe.
She stayed with the practice in Rhode Island and getting a comfortable salary for it.
She's doing strictly OB-medicine, and not IM
So all her patients are women...and pregnant PLUS... SLE or GDM or thyroid storm etc.

think of it as the maternal- fetal fellowship for OB-GYN people.
they share the same patient pool.

 

[music89]

I've heard that after Family Medicine residencies you can apply for an OB/GYN fellowship to get further/more extensive training in women's health (ex: training in preforming C-sections). But what about an OB/GYN fellowship after an IM residency??? I would like to match into an IM residency, but I feel like I will miss out on basic OB/GYN skills like knowing how to deliver a baby.

(I know some people may say that I should just apply to a Family Medicine program, but I really like the critical care/inpatient aspect of IM, which is why I prefer it more than Family Medicine and would rather match IM).

THANKS! =)

Thank you all for your responses!!! I appreciate it!!

 

[Lee Ik-jun MD]

Here's the link to apply to those interested

http://www.brownmedicine.org/2/obstetrics/fellowship.htm

 

[235009]

Here's the link to apply to those interested

http://www.brownmedicine.org/2/obstetrics/fellowship.htm

1. Doesn't sound like you'd be delivering babies
2. Not an ACGME accredited fellowship I'm assuming
3. Still sounds like it's still internal medicine with a focus on women's health

That being said this is as close as you'll get to an "OB fellowship" in IM