Types of Residency Program?

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I would like to ask what are the types of resident programs? How many types are there? I saw the term "university program", what does it mean? How is it different from a hospital? I am not talking about specialties. Can someone kindly explain to me?

 

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I would like to ask what are the types of resident programs? How many types are there? I saw the term "university program", what does it mean? How is it different from a hospital? I am not talking about specialties. Can someone kindly explain to me?

Not sure if I understand your question but in terms of university vs others theres usually the following break down as described in FREIDA: http://www.ama-assn.org/vapp/freida/srch/1,1239,,00.html

1 : University-based, 2 : Community-based, 3 : Military, 4 : Other, 5 :Community hospital, university affiliated.

1: university is simple, its usually a hospital with a medical school (Hopkins, VCU, UVA, UCLA...)

2: Community is pretty much a hospital in the community setting w/ no real ties to a medical school although even these now a days have could have medical students rotating there

5: Community hospital, university affiliated is a community hospital with established ties to a university. For example, Hopkins is reported to have some kinda of affiliations with all of the following[from FREIDA]
http://www.ama-assn.org/vapp/freida/medsch/0,1238,02307,00.html
Other univsersity affiliation are at http://www.ama-assn.org/vapp/freida/schindx/0,1238,,00.html

 

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Not sure if I understand your question but in terms of university vs others theres usually the following break down as described in FREIDA: http://www.ama-assn.org/vapp/freida/srch/1,1239,,00.html

1 : University-based, 2 : Community-based, 3 : Military, 4 : Other, 5 :Community hospital, university affiliated.

1: university is simple, its usually a hospital with a medical school (Hopkins, VCU, UVA, UCLA...)

2: Community is pretty much a hospital in the community setting w/ no real ties to a medical school although even these now a days have could have medical students rotating there

5: Community hospital, university affiliated is a community hospital with established ties to a university. For example, Hopkins is reported to have some kinda of affiliations with all of the following[from FREIDA]
http://www.ama-assn.org/vapp/freida/medsch/0,1238,02307,00.html
Other univsersity affiliation are at http://www.ama-assn.org/vapp/freida/schindx/0,1238,,00.html

Thanks for the reply.

So, which one is better? A university program or a community program?

 

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Thanks for the reply.

So, which one is better? A university program or a community program?

Depends what you mean by "better." If you mean in terms of fellowship placement, diversity of disease processes (bread and butter + zebras), opportunities for research, and reputation then academic university programs are better.

If you mean in terms of intensity of program and competitiveness, thencommunity programs are better.

Of course there are several exceptions to this rule because there are several community programs that are competitive and provide solid education. But generally academic programs are more competitive, place more of their residents into fellowships, and offer a more rigorous education since they see diseases (eg, rare conditions) and acuity (ie, very very sick) of patients that community hospitals often do not have the capacity to serve.

 

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Depends what you mean by "better." If you mean in terms of fellowship placement, diversity of disease processes (bread and butter + zebras), opportunities for research, and reputation then academic university programs are better.

If you mean in terms of intensity of program and competitiveness, thencommunity programs are better.

Of course there are several exceptions to this rule because there are several community programs that are competitive and provide solid education. But generally academic programs are more competitive, place more of their residents into fellowships, and offer a more rigorous education since they see diseases (eg, rare conditions) and acuity (ie, very very sick) of patients that community hospitals often do not have the capacity to serve.

Thanks for your reply.