Conservatively, I have met with or know 200 vascular surgery trainees and faculty from across the US. I can count on one hand the number that think that traditional training is a superior pathway to integrated. All of them are over the age of 50 and also think that if you aren't averaging ~110 hrs/week, you aren't training enough. I have yet to meet a student wanting to go into vascular that is seriously considering GS over IVS. It makes zero sense to do general surgery first if you know anything about how residencies are structured and the skills acquired at various levels.
You have no idea how much I agree with you. I'm a proponent of making Radiology a 3 year residency plus required fellowship if we're going to force sub specialization. If we're going to keep private practice models alive, the current format is fine, but I also feel that intern year needs to be dropped.
I know quite a few students who wanted to do Vascular surgery, but weren't 100% certain. They had more options by doing general first, then vascular.
Anyway, why are you here? Are you Beetlejuice?
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