surgery after sgu

[berkeleyboy]

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Can anyone tell me how surgery residencies work? I know that the surgical specialties (ortho,plastics,urology, thoracic ) are difficult to acquire immediately after graduating from sgu, but general surgery is frequently shown on the sgu match list. Is it possible to do a residency in general surgery and later do thoracic or plastics after 5 years of general surgery? If so, how hard is it for sgu grads after doing 5 years of general surgery to get a fellowship in one of the surgical specialties? Is this even possible?
Thanks,
berkeleyboy

 

[volvulus]

berkeleyboy,
Obtaining a general suregry residency is not hard at all. An SGU grad can easily obtain a 5 year gen surg residency in some community hospital. Getting gen surg at a major university however, is harder for a carib grad. Now in order to do a fellowship like plastics or CV, it is much harder when you come from a community gen surg program. Usually fellowships are located at major univ hospitals and those programs usually want people who trained at major univ intitutions. So if you have any intention of doing fellowship training, your best bet is to work your but off and land a good gen surg residency. The better gen surg program the better your chances of getting into a fellowship.

 

[berkeleyboy]

I see your point. Why are community hospital residencies considered inferior to university programs?
berkeleyboy

 

[volvulus]

community programs have less world renowned faculty and obviously less research. new treatments and innovations are usually pioneered at univ hospitals. so i guess teaching is supposed to be better at univ hospitals. plus prestige plays a part as well. hope that helps