Question about 3 vs 4 yr programs

[pillowhead]

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I'm an M3 strongly considering anesthesiology as career choice, but I'm still a little baffled about the application process. I understand that when applying to anesthesiology, one generally submits two match lists--1 for the intern year and 1 for categorical position. However some programs have the intern year embedded so that their programs are 4 years instead of 3. If you apply to a mixture of 3 and 4 year programs, how does that work? It seems possible to match into a 4 year program and to match separately into a different intern year.

hopefully my question makes sense--would appreciate any input or explanation, thanks!

 

[aredoubleyou]

I'm an M3 strongly considering anesthesiology as career choice, but I'm still a little baffled about the application process. I understand that when applying to anesthesiology, one generally submits two match lists--1 for the intern year and 1 for categorical position. However some programs have the intern year embedded so that their programs are 4 years instead of 3. If you apply to a mixture of 3 and 4 year programs, how does that work? It seems possible to match into a 4 year program and to match separately into a different intern year.

hopefully my question makes sense--would appreciate any input or explanation, thanks!

as i understand it you rank your anesthesia programs, then under each program you rank the intern years for each program. For a 4 yr program, I'd expect that there would be no option to rank intern years cause theyre built in.

 

[Sugar72]

as i understand it you rank your anesthesia programs, then under each program you rank the intern years for each program. For a 4 yr program, I'd expect that there would be no option to rank intern years cause theyre built in.

I think it is called your supplemental list - something like that. You rank the TY's/ prelims in the order you want them if you rank at that particular place for your advanced year. For example I applied to 3 TY/prelim A, B, and C. When I rank my advanced position in Tucson I will put them in this order B, C, A. When I rank my advanced position in Alabama I will put them in this order A,C,B. They do this so you can try to get a TY/prelim in the city of your the advanced program you match at. Clear?

 

[pillowhead]

I think it is called your supplemental list - something like that. You rank the TY's/ prelims in the order you want them if you rank at that particular place for your advanced year. For example I applied to 3 TY/prelim A, B, and C. When I rank my advanced position in Tucson I will put them in this order B, C, A. When I rank my advanced position in Alabama I will put them in this order A,C,B. They do this so you can try to get a TY/prelim in the city of your the advanced program you match at. Clear?

Abundantly, yes. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[rugtrousers]

Just to be clear, "categorical" includes the intern year. So if next is like this year (i.e. mix of 3 and 4-year programs), you will be applying for categorical anesthesia (4 year), advanced anesthesia (3 year) and intern spots (1 year).

On your main rank list, you can mix categorical and advanced programs, and for every advanced program you list, you also input a supplemental list of internship programs.

So if you are considering UMich (only categorical), Hopkins (categorical and advanced spots) and UCSF (only advanced), your list might look like this:

1. UMich
2. Hopkins categorical
3. Hopkins advanced --> plus internship list "A"
4. UCSF advanced --> plus internship list "B"

Hope that helps!