MD Preventive medicine residency

[randombanana]

Hello all,

I'm interested in PM but don't understand much about the training. My understanding is that you need a transitional (PGY1) year before the 2 years of PM residency, which I believe is a similar prerequisite for other fields like radiology and ophthalmology. If this is correct, how exactly does applying to residency work? Do you apply specifically for a transitional year during MS4 and then apply for PM during PGY1? Or can you apply for PM during MS4? I guess I don't understand residency at all.

Can anyone speak to the competitiveness of the field? All I hear is "it's not competitive," but I haven't really seen numbers tied to it.

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[The Knife & Gun Club]

You apply through ERAS during MS4. Basically you apply to a prelim/transitional year (PGY1) and apply for your PM PGY2-3 slot separately and simultaneously.

There’s very few PM programs - I think ~40 participating this year with a couple residents each, so you’re gonna have a rough time getting any sort of idea for competition due to the small pool.

But if I was going to make an educated guess I’d think it’d probably be similar to family med as there’s a lot of overlap between the two.

 

[Quantal Reasoning]

This sounds a lot like family medicine or general internal medicine.

 

[soundsofscience]

You may have heard it already, but there was a preventive medicine doc recently interviewed on the Undifferentiated Medical Student podcast. I believe she was a residency PD. They discuss questions like this and the guests usually offer their email address if listeners have any questions.

 

[nmosm22]

I had a further question adding to this: as an IMG I was wondering if you would have to do more than PGY1 to apply for the PM residency? The only reason I wonder this is because to get medical licensure IMG's usually have to do 3 years minimum and US students are 1 year. Just curious