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Subspecialities

Started by Dr2618
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Yes I believe so - for heme onc, I believe you go into IM (quite DO friendly) and then you do a fellowship in that speciality

Rad onc is a whole other story and tough to get as an MD or DO

As for how difficult it is to subspecialize once in IM as heme onc opposed to cards opposed endo - I honestly don't know
 
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Dr2618 said:
So would you say my chances are quite high as far as going DO?
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Yes I think slightly above average will get you a Peds residency easy
From there, just make the right connections and work hard and you will get into a heme onc fellowship

Def doable with solid effort on your part. No luck required.

Edit - This is what I have learned. I am going to be a first year soon so I am not the go to person for this information. @Goro may like to weigh in to confirm my thoughts.
 
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gensurghopeful said:
Yes I believe so - for heme onc, I believe you go into IM (quite DO friendly) and then you do a fellowship in that speciality

Rad onc is a whole other story and tough to get as an MD or DO

As for how difficult it is to subspecialize once in IM as heme onc opposed to cards opposed endo - I honestly don't know
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For pediatric heme/onc, you do peds residency then heme onc fellowship.
 
Dr2618 said:
So would you say my chances are quite high as far as going DO?
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No. I would say nothing about your chances at a fellowship because that is almost a decade into the future. If you turn into an average DO student then yeah your chances are good for IM, as for fellowship that will depend less on your DO degree and more on your residency, research, connections, aka stuff you have none of right now. NRMP has a charting outcomes for the 2018 fellowship match if you want some hard data. It has specific numbers for osteopathic graduates.
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For pediatric heme/onc, you do peds residency then heme onc fellowship.
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this. Many people don't realize all these peds fields are fellowships after peds and not something else for some reason. They are also generally not super competitive as from what I've been told its usually a pay cut to do a fellowship after peds.
 
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No. I would say nothing about your chances at a fellowship because that is almost a decade into the future. If you turn into an average DO student then yeah your chances are good for IM, as for fellowship that will depend less on your DO degree and more on your residency, research, connections, aka stuff you have none of right now. NRMP has a charting outcomes for the 2018 fellowship match if you want some hard data. It has specific numbers for osteopathic graduates.


this. Many people don't realize all these peds fields are fellowships after peds and not something else for some reason. They are also generally not super competitive as from what I've been told its usually a pay cut to do a fellowship after peds.
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I have read this before - it still blows my mind a little that doing a fellowship and being more specialized in something earns you less money. I ran into the same information, when I realized that being a general IM vs an Endocrinologist (fellowship post IM residency) means less pay for the latter. Crazy.
 
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