Unique residency programs

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Is anyone aware of particularly unique residency programs at various teaching hospitals? I came across a good example of one yesterday when I found out about Penn's "Cutaneous Oncology" program. At any other institution, this is usually a post-derm fellowship, but at Penn, it appears to be a singular residency program in its own right:
http://www.med.upenn.edu/dermres/oncology.html

This got me curious if anyone else was aware of any similar residencies - e.g., either one's that combine two specialties or appear to be residency programs that are otherwise usually fellowships.

I thought it might be useful to make a compendium of these "one-offs" for reference to anyone who wasn't aware of them. Being interested in Oncology myself, I would love to seek out any residency program that had an Oncology bent to it without being simply Internal Medicine.

 

[the argus]

Is anyone aware of particularly unique residency programs at various teaching hospitals? I came across a good example of one yesterday when I found out about Penn's "Cutaneous Oncology" program. At any other institution, this is usually a post-derm fellowship, but at Penn, it appears to be a singular residency program in its own right:
http://www.med.upenn.edu/dermres/oncology.html

This got me curious if anyone else was aware of any similar residencies - e.g., either one's that combine two specialties or appear to be residency programs that are otherwise usually fellowships.

I thought it might be useful to make a compendium of these "one-offs" for reference to anyone who wasn't aware of them. Being interested in Oncology myself, I would love to seek out any residency program that had an Oncology bent to it without being simply Internal Medicine.

That isn't a singular residency. It's a residency/fellowship combo tract. It says right on the website you linked to,

"Applicants interested in this program must apply through ERAS to the "Derm Res & Cut Onc Fellow/4 year track (1628080A1)"

This is somewhat common, where when applying to residency places many offer certain tracts with a linked fellowship position. They also sometimes shave a year off when compared to the normal process of doing residency then applying to fellowship. A common example is IM/HemeOnc 5 year tract positions (as opposed to the 6 years this would normally take).

 

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I thought it might be useful to make a compendium of these "one-offs" for reference to anyone who wasn't aware of them. Being interested in Oncology myself, I would love to seek out any residency program that had an Oncology bent to it without being simply Internal Medicine.

Not gonna happen. You need to be at least a modestly decent internist to be a good oncologist. You can certainly skew your training to the oncology side of things during IM residency (which I did and would highly recommend NOT doing...I missed out on a lot of other subspecialty stuff that would be helpful to have now). But, as has been pointed out above, this is a combined program not a "unique residency".

 

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