Can you switch residencies? or do more than 1?

Bigredmed
Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:09:53 +0000

Either scenario is possible.

For example, if you remember the very beginning of the tv show ER, Dr. Carter (Noah Wyle) had been a surgery intern, but then switched to EM.

You do have to go through the Match again though in order to accomplish this switch.

Also you don’t have to put residency and fellowships back to back. The girl I’m currently dating has recently been thinking about doing her internal medicine residency, being a hospitalist once done, and then when she gets bored going back to do her nephrology fellowship (she loves kidneys…I think she’s crazy but I like her anyways).

I know a family medicine doctor who was in practice for 20 years in a small town, moved to my town of current residence and went through a geriatrics fellowship, and is now doing geriatric medicine full time at my medical center.