peds to radiology

[pedicards]

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I'm an MS IV and I'm starting my peds residency in July. However, I am now doing a radiology rotation, and I really, really like it. In fact, I think I would like to be a pediatric radiologist.

What are my options if I decide, after a few months of residency in pediatrics, to apply for a radiology residency and eventually do pediatric radiology? I wonder if I could do an internship in peds and that would count as my prelim year? Does anyone have experience with switching fields like this?

Thanks.

 

[f_w]

- Peds counts as internship.
- Yes it can be done
- talk to your peds program director early on. You will need his LOR to make the change
- you will run into a funding issue when trying to make the change. In short, if you change after PGY-2 peds, the radiology program will be short about 20k per year for R-2 to R-4. (this can present a problem for people trying to switch from IM or peds which both have a 3 year funding cap as opposed to GS with a 5 year cap) More on this here: http://www.aamc.org/advocacy/library/gme/dgmebroc.pdf