Specialty-Track programs?

[lg2005]

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Are these residencies 3 years total. first year focused internship on peds and then 2 additional years?

 

[augmel]

heck no. two years general peds, then at least three years fellowship. I think you basically do at least four years of fellowship since the basis for these programs is the need for more academic specialists. That year you get off of general peds is supposed to be applied towards your research efforts in fellowship. I believe that you have to have already demonstrated a commitment to research to even get these spots. Anyone else know if that is true?

 

[notstudying]

Are you talking about the special alternative pathway? There's a lot of info on the American Board of Pediatrics website, but I looked into this and was told that it is 2 years residency + 2 or 3 years of fellowship-you fast track through residency, but have to do some resident-like tasks during fellowship, plus you end up like the med/peds folks and have very little elective time in your 2 years, and instead have lots of time on floors. I think you may get some protected time during residency for research (but then again, there's not much time, so maybe not)-but there are some residencies that will let you negotiate a small amount of (modestly) protected research time anyway. I'd look at the website http://www.abp.org/abpfr1024.htm and talk with whoever administers the program at your school.

 

[stomper627]

Actually, I think we are talking about 2 different tracks. I am not interested in research. The only difference ( I think) between specialty-track and a traditional residency is the internship year, in that it is more focused on peds...not a general rotating year with only 1 month of peds. I will call the programs directly to shed some light on this confusion. If anyone else has info - all is appreciated.
lg2005

 

[notstudying]

If you want to do peds exclusively, all of the peds programs I know of have their own, pediatric only internship year. Intern year used to be like MS3-rotating through most of the specialties, but now it is usually specialty specific (transitional years excepted, and I don't think they do any peds-you can do a peds transitional year though, if you were interested in peds anesthesia for instance, but that's all peds).

 

[Gator05]

Where are these peds transitional years? Quite curious, everyone seems to speak of them but I've yet to find one!

 

[notstudying]

Where are these peds transitional years? Quite curious, everyone seems to speak of them but I've yet to find one!

My program has one spot that can go to a transitional year (there was an anesthesia resident a couple of years back); this year it's going to a peds neuro resident (which is 2 years of peds residency) and I suspect it may now be earmarked for them each year since the peds neuro spot was just approved. What specialty are you interested in ? I don't know about other programs-if you don't get many answers here I'd talk to residency directors in your field of interest, and also some people doing the peds version, to find out where they did their transitional years. And talking to the peds residency director at your school would help too-they may know of a list somewhere, or at least have an unofficial idea.