dual degrees

[Thaiger75]

How do these dual residencies work?

Purely hypothetical: An individual were to finish a residency in, say, IM. Then they would do a 1 year fellowship in Heme/Onc. After that they would become an attending and do a second residency part-time? Or would they just do 4 years in another residency directly?

Probably the latter.

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[Michael Spiker]

Heme/Onc fellowships are usually 3-4 years. Never one year. so these people were in training for a LONG time

How do these dual residencies work?

Purely hypothetical: An individual were to finish a residency in, say, IM. Then they would do a 1 year fellowship in Heme/Onc. After that they would become an attending and do a second residency part-time? Or would they just do 4 years in another residency directly?

 

[Ursus Martimus]

Heme/Onc fellowships are usually 3-4 years. Never one year. so these people were in training for a LONG time

Dr. Woo's training:

Internship, Ipoh General Hospital, Ipoh, Malaysia, 1973

Internal Medicine, Johor Baru General Hospital, Johor Baru, Malaysia, 1975

Residency, Pediatrics, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland, 1976

Residency, Pediatrics, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, 1978

Fellowship in Pediatric and Adolescent Oncology-Hematology, Vincent T. Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, 1980

Residency, Radiation Therapy, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, 1988

That my friend is alot of training. Both the peds guys at Rochester and UW are triple boarded. As you see eventually all people see the light and become radiation oncologists. I have only heard of one guy who did radonc and then did med hem/onc - could be an urban myth though since I never heard a specific name.

 

[stephew]

cahir at rush hemeonc-->radonc.

 

[radiaterMike]

cahir at rush hemeonc-->radonc.

chair at Michigan (Lawrence) MD PhD --> IM --> heme onc --> rad onc
assoc chair at Rochester (Constine) MD --> peds --> peds onc --> rad onc

of course keep in mind that rad onc was (up until the late 90s) a 4 year residency, so this equated to an extra 3 years of training (since internship was already done). Still a long time tp train.

 

[aerial]

As you see eventually all people see the light and become radiation oncologists.

That could make a great quote/signature.