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Hello all. I am a psychiatry resident and had a question. I am under the impression that if you have done family medicine (which I did not finish) and trying to switch to psychiatry they should give you a year of credit and basically start you at PGY 2. I have heard that instead of 4 years you can be finished in 3. My program here is only giving me and incoming surgery resident only 6 months of credit. The program tells me that decision was made by ABPN (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology). I I remember calling the board and the board said decision was made by program however I am not sure. Can someone shine a light on this for me. My fourth year is all electives and if I do not need to that last year that will be interesting.
Also one of our residents is taking leave in middle of third year for pregnancy and birth. My program tells me that she can come back during 4th year and make up those rotations in 4th year and still complete the program. I have not heard that before. Can a program just do that? That sounds like the elective months are worthless. I feel like if a resident takes time off they still need to make that time up so instead of 4 years they will finish in 4 year and 2 ro 3 months based on their leave. Anyone has input on that??
Also one of our residents is taking leave in middle of third year for pregnancy and birth. My program tells me that she can come back during 4th year and make up those rotations in 4th year and still complete the program. I have not heard that before. Can a program just do that? That sounds like the elective months are worthless. I feel like if a resident takes time off they still need to make that time up so instead of 4 years they will finish in 4 year and 2 ro 3 months based on their leave. Anyone has input on that??