Residencies

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1 total messages Started by John W. Lin Wed, 24 May 1995 00:00

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Author: John W. Lin
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 00:00

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Hi all! First, a thanks to the many people on this list who, over the
last two years, have donated advice and comments to this clue-bee
about the MD/PhD "thing."  I'm looking forward to starting on the long
road myself, kicking it off with a lab rotation before MS1 classes
gear up in September.

Anyways, about residencies. I was poking around the WWW and came
across the home page of the MGH Neurosurgery residency. From what I
read, their program entails (after a year's interning in general
surgery) 2 years of house staff, then 2 years of bench research (no
call), and then 2 years of wards again. This sort of residency program
with built-in time for a research post-doc seems ideal for
physician-scientists.

Is this (devoting years to research) typical of most specialty
residencies? or is it common at academic medical centers?  I had
thought that postgraduate training for a subspecialty like
neurosurgery (or cardiology, or pediatric cardiology, or ...)  would
have been 7 years of clinical training in addition to any research
time. BTW, is there a good publication that talks about residencies with
research components?

Thanks for any info/general observations you have about this.
Best wishes,

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John W. Lin
jwlin@mit.edu

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