As many know, there are many PGY-2 residencies like Neurology or Ophthalmology. Does this mean that getting a spot into one of these residencies depends more on how well you did on PGY-1 or what?
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PGY-2 Residencies.
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Hopefully someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe those are residencies that require you to do a general prelim year in medicine or surgery OR a transitional year for your intern year. As far as I know you apply separately for both residencies, but I think apply to both at the same time?
No, you match into PGY-2 residencies (as well as prelim residency) at the same time - by interviewing in your last year of medical school. The only issue if for people who fail to match at this point (and so PGY-1 performance has to be good).
The above post is more or less correct. If you are applying to an "advanced" residency: Rad Onc, Radiology, Derm, Optho, Anesthesiology, PM&R, Neurology, Nuclear Medicine (and probably some I'm forgetting), then you end up having to apply to two sets of programs, the advanced, and a preliminary/transitional year program IN THE SAME MATCH. Meaning when they accept you, for the most part, you will not have started your PGY-1 program -- you will get two acceptances in the match one for PGY-1 and one for PGY-2. If you only match into an advanced program, you would want to scramble into a PGY-1 year, and again the advanced program won't get an opportunity to see how you do in PGY-1 before they accept you. The only way PGY-1 matter to the advanced program is if you don't get into an advanced program in the match and then have to try to apply as an intern, which in most cases is going to mean you end up losing a year because the advanced programs interview for spots an extra year in advance. Hope that makes sense.
