Two different residency programs @ same Hospital

[Pooh Chong]

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What are the politics about this? Do programs share this type of information? I'm interested in applying to both a family med/ internal med/ emergency med program at one hospital....

do I need to choose just one?

Also, is this the same when we are talking about different hospitals that are in the same system? Like the Banner system or the Providence system hospitals...for example, one providence hospital offers family medicine but another only offers internal medicine...by applying to both, does this hurt me in some way?

TIA.

 

[randomedstudent]

My personal opinion as someone who also plans to do this is to just be honest about it and explain the reason why. This may hurt you for one or more specialties (EM at our school is extremely negative about applying to multiple specialties for some reason and I know of one student who was told point blank that they would not be ranked if they applied to another specialty in addition to EM). However, IM and FM are probably more likely to be accustomed to this sort of thing, and thus less likely to be offended, as people often use these specialties as back up options. I just think that it would be more difficult and stressful to try to keep everything under wraps, esp. with 3 specialties, and if one program did find out it would look much worse than if you were just honest and up-front from the beginning. You probably have a compelling reason (I would not just say you can't decide even if that's the truth - I would say it's due to family issues, spouse can't relocate, whatever) for this choice and I would just tell them. Also, if possible you probably want to meet with PD's before you actually apply and just casually bring up your situation and ask their advice. Again, only my opinion...

 

[GuP]

I have asked the same question and even talked to PDs in person about it. Most have said that it is ok if two are almost alike i.e. plastic and general, uro and general, etc. I am not sure how you would explain applying to rads and ortho or ob/gyn and ent, etc. It would look as if you are unsure and would take anything the hospital has to offer.

 

[Pooh Chong]

Well....

I'm mostly just interested in IM and FM, and I'm really, really staying in a certain region of the country because of it's where I grew up, family, etc...

So you guys think I can get away with applying to both IM/FM at the same hospital because it's so close in fields?