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I have recently started researching neuropsychiatry residencies, and I've
found that most will allow you to use research as elective credit in the
4th (last) year.  One in particular combines this with a fellowship that
then extends the research (paid) to 2 years, thus you do 3 clinical years
and 2 research years and finish a board certified psychiatrist hopefully
very attractive to academic centers.  I believe similar arrangements are
possible in neurology which I looked at briefly - as you know they require
1 year of medicine then 3 years of neurology residency.  Finally I looked
into neuropathology.  Pathology in general is weird.  It is divided into
anatomic pathology and clinical pathology which most programs offer as a
joint AP/CP program.  This is a 4 year program, but certification requires
5 years, the extra being called an "accreditation year".  This year may be
fulfilled by a transitional residency year, research, or in many cases
credit for a PhD already completed!!!  I actually inquired to the
certification board and received a reply indicating my PhD would likely be
acceptable for credit.  With credit for that year, I found research track
AP programs which also added 2 years of neuropathology fellowship training
which would have included a year of research and allowed me to be
certified as an anatomic/neuropathologist with 3 years of clinical
training and a year spent in the lab.  I was advised however that you
would likely need several more years of fellowship training before you
would be hired, so I'm leaning away from pathology.  That's my two cents.
Actually one further consideration - many programs I've spoken to will
allow me to work with someone off-campus so it may not be necessary to
find a great residency and a great researcher at the same institution.

Geoff
schoenbg@med.unc.edu






>
> 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,
>
> -------
> John W. Lin
> jwlin@mit.edu
>