Will New community IM Residencies prepare you for the Boards?

[psychMDhopefully]

There are lots of new residencies that are going to pop up around my area in the next couple of years. Are ACGME standards high enough that even new community IM programs prepare you for the boards? Or is it best to avoid new programs because they don't know what they are doing yet?

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[Mad Jack]

There are lots of new residencies that are going to pop up around my area in the next couple of years. Are ACGME standards high enough that even new community IM programs prepare you for the boards? Or is it best to avoid new programs because they don't know what they are doing yet?

Change your specialty choice?

 

[PlutoBoy]

There are lots of new residencies that are going to pop up around my area in the next couple of years. Are ACGME standards high enough that even new community IM programs prepare you for the boards? Or is it best to avoid new programs because they don't know what they are doing yet?

Established programs with a track record are always better on paper.

Having said that, you prepare yourself for the boards. Medicine is a largely self taught field.

I know two IM subspecialists that were let go for not passing their IM (!) boards. Both are graduates of US allopathic schools and trained at university programs.

 

[rokshana]

There are lots of new residencies that are going to pop up around my area in the next couple of years. Are ACGME standards high enough that even new community IM programs prepare you for the boards? Or is it best to avoid new programs because they don't know what they are doing yet?

you are asking the wrong question...you prepare yourself for the boards and there are plenty of board review course that can help with that.

you need to ask what kind of exposure and opportunities you will have. Is there enough diversity and pathology that you will get enough contact with the basic problems that you will eventually see as an independent physician after training. Are there adequate didactics to build your fund of knowledge. Are you encouraged to attend conferences and present at said conferences so you can network and make contacts to help with fellowship and/or practice.

the job of the residency is to train you to be a competent physician, not just get you to pass a fancy test.

 

[DoubleBogey]

Given 6 months and moderate test taking skills, you can pass any test. I think the above posts makes a great point - you want to be trained with critical thinking mindset and approach to Medicine. Being trained in a university settings certainly allows you to see advance management strategies in exacerbating acute and end stage chronic illnesses.

In a community setting though, you don’t want to be responsible for this level of acuity, but it’s nice to recognize, know and who to call if the acuity arises.

You want to be in a program with a healthy amount of autonomy to allow you to manage bread and butter stuffand manage higher level acuity with the knowledge that if you need help it’s there. Autonomy isn’t having to know everything, it’s allowing you to generate questions on defeciencies of knowledge, initiating management strategies and seeing them play out in a monitored environment.

Many people could pass ABIM without going to residency, but nobody would want to be treated by them. Like the above post - you’re asking the wrong question