Transitional year

[anbuitachi]

Just to confirm, we can do transitional year instead of Prelim year for Anesthesiology right.. do programs care which?

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[Cumberland_Doc]

You're correct, you can do a TY or prelim medicine or surgery

 

[twoliter]

Just to confirm, we can do transitional year instead of Prelim year for Anesthesiology right.. do programs care which?

Yes, you can do any of the 3 (surgery prelim, medicine prelim, transitional year) as was noted above.

Programs won't really know what intern year you do before the match, assuming you're talking about matching into Anesthesiology out of medical school, since you would match any of those intern years at the same time. If you're talking about matching anesthesia during/after your intern year, then they would know what you did intern year, but I don't think it would affect their thoughts about you very much at all. (Though a surgery prelim may be looked a little more highly upon if any are.)

 

[deleted171991]

Whatever you end up doing, choose a good program, where you can take a good number of independent decisions even as an intern, with minimal clinics and maximal ICU/telemetry and cross-coverage/nightfloat type rotations (at least 6 in total, more would be ideal).

Internship training is fundamental for anesthesiologists. You are not going into a specialty that has nothing to do with your internship. You can fool yourself that it's better to have an easy year, to read ahead for your residency, but easy now means more difficult later.

Unless well-planned, a transitional program might not be challenging enough for a future anesthesiologist.

 

[Sirach38]

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[deleted171991]

It depends. Categorical programs will include the PGY-1 year, while advanced programs start at PGY-2.