Hey everyone, so I'm a PA resident who matched into an ACGME program in VA. I emailed my program asking about getting Resolution 42 status and what I had to do. I had heard along the trail that it was not hard to do. I asked my program and they said I had to do IM, GYN, and Surgery eating up all of my first year electives. This is what the guidelines say but I know it is a lot less stringent than that in application. So I called the AOA and this is what they said but I still did have a question and wanted to hear how people dealt with this.
1) IM can be filled with a Peds IM sub-specialty (some acgme programs are at free-standing children's hospital so this makes sense b/c they don't have IM, GYN, or Surgery). So I could do Peds GI, Peds Endo, etc.
2) Women's Health can be filled by adolescent medicine.
3) Surgery I'm still not sure about. The woman I spoke to said Peds Surgery would definitely count and EM or other rotations might count as well. But I wanted to know if anyone else substituted anything else for Surgery?
Anything else I need to know about being a DO in an ACGME Pediatrics program trying to fulfill this resolution?
Thanks!
1) IM can be filled with a Peds IM sub-specialty (some acgme programs are at free-standing children's hospital so this makes sense b/c they don't have IM, GYN, or Surgery). So I could do Peds GI, Peds Endo, etc.
2) Women's Health can be filled by adolescent medicine.
3) Surgery I'm still not sure about. The woman I spoke to said Peds Surgery would definitely count and EM or other rotations might count as well. But I wanted to know if anyone else substituted anything else for Surgery?
Anything else I need to know about being a DO in an ACGME Pediatrics program trying to fulfill this resolution?
Thanks!