Hi everyone,
I am finishing up my second year at MSUCOM and was wondering about how internship year is tied in to ACGME/osteopathic residencies. I plan to take both the USMLE and COMLEX and hope to pursue anesthesiology. If for example I don't match in the DO match and match in the MD match in a PGY-2 spot can I enter either a DO or MD intership for PGY-1? Does this depend on the program? Also if I flipped this scenario and matched into a PGY-1 year in the DO match am I obligated to enter this spot if I say matched into an MD PGY-2 spot and also matched PGY-1 MD. I know this may sound confusing but I'm trying to make sense of the whole intern year and trying to make sense of how to approach this. I haven't had the chance to talk to any upper class students and if someone who entered both matches could give me some advice I would greatly appreciate it. I know this may highly depend on the program and I couldn't find anything for this specific topic so my apologies for reposting if I did.
Cheers,
Spartyon
I am finishing up my second year at MSUCOM and was wondering about how internship year is tied in to ACGME/osteopathic residencies. I plan to take both the USMLE and COMLEX and hope to pursue anesthesiology. If for example I don't match in the DO match and match in the MD match in a PGY-2 spot can I enter either a DO or MD intership for PGY-1? Does this depend on the program? Also if I flipped this scenario and matched into a PGY-1 year in the DO match am I obligated to enter this spot if I say matched into an MD PGY-2 spot and also matched PGY-1 MD. I know this may sound confusing but I'm trying to make sense of the whole intern year and trying to make sense of how to approach this. I haven't had the chance to talk to any upper class students and if someone who entered both matches could give me some advice I would greatly appreciate it. I know this may highly depend on the program and I couldn't find anything for this specific topic so my apologies for reposting if I did.
Cheers,
Spartyon