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I know many Internal Medicine residencies have a combined
residency/post-doc.  They add a year to residency and take some of the
clinical time and put it towards lab time, resulting in 1-2 years in the lab
out of 4.  One of the faculty here did his residency/post-doc at Brigham &
Womens and then moved into a combined cardiology fellowship/faculty
appointment.  I don't know if that sort of thing is still out there, but I'm
interested in it.  That way you become faculty 5 years after graduation, not
6-9 (4 yr residency/post-doc, 1 yr full-time fellowship, The remainder of
the fellowship is split clinical/lab).  I haven't spoken to him about the
details, but on the surface it sounds attractive, especially if you want to
do fellowship.  If I end up doing a residency only and not a fellowship, I'm
leaning towards completing an uninterupted residency, then doing a post-doc
as a way to get re-established.  Then again, I haven't even completed my PhD
yet, so who knows what I'll end up doing.

Brian M. Block
Neurosci, 5/8
Case Western Reserve Univ