Question for Experts

[ukdoc74]

1. What are the pros and cons of preliminary medicine vs transitional year for a radiology residency.

2. What are some cush transitional programs and prelim medicine programs?

Thanks for the help.

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[f_w]

1. What are the pros and cons of preliminary medicine vs transitional year for a radiology residency.

For your ability to be a good radiologist, it doesn't make a lot of a difference. Maybe learning something about surgical patient care during a TY would be helpful, but otherwise it doesn't matter all that much (if you are at all interested in IR, I would actually suggest a decent surgical prelim).

Just one aspect often overlooked:

TY
- your rads residency if funded at the full level throughout.

prelim medicine:
- your rads program looses approx 20k of your funding during residency PGY-4 and PGY-5

You can find the details on this somewhat bizarre funding issue here:

http://www.aamc.org/advocacy/library/gme/dgmebroc.pdf

 

[Cowboy DO]

What if you do an Osteopathic TY? Do they still get paid for that?

 

[Mage]

Just one aspect often overlooked:

TY
- your rads residency if funded at the full level throughout.

prelim medicine:
- your rads program looses approx 20k of your funding during residency PGY-4 and PGY-5

Yeah, I was surprised to find out that matching into a pre-lim med year stiffs the program out of funding since it acts as if you matched into a categorical program. I wish they'd give radiology more funding, since I matched into one . Wonder how pissed off my PD is going to be.

It was my #3 choice after 2 insanely competitive TYs. I could have ranked several more TYs ahead of it, but it beat them out on procedures, resident happiness, cushness, and location. I didn't realize how bad I'd feel about it, though