Time and Cost

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>How much would you be in debt if you went through the college,med school and a anesthesiology residency be? Not at a top school but a still a good school? Also how long would it take to complete? How difficult would it be finish?</p>

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<p>Quality of school is not necessarily correlated with expense.</p>

<p>Without knowing financial aid status, no predictions are possible.</p>

<p>Even including that, expense varies widely from school to school.</p>

<p>It would take approximately 4+4+3 years, or eleven post-high-school years. Many people finish between the ages of 29 and 32.</p>

<p>Difficulty depends on the schools in question – harder schools are harder but make the next steps easier, for example – as well as your own innate sense of what “hard” and “easy” mean as well as your own natural talent in whatever fields you enter.</p>

<p>A discussion of debt can be found here: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=307704[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=307704&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Anesthesia is only three years for residency? I thought it was four or five.</p>

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<p>1.) I’m not sure, now that I think about it. I always thought it was just three, which was much of the appeal of the specialty.</p>

<p>2.) Residencies do vary; in particular some academic centers are now building in research years to add to the clinical years so that they’re a little bit longer.</p>

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<p>Anesthesia training includes intern year (PGY-1) and anesthesia residency (PGY-2 through PGY-4, sometimes called CA-1 through CA-3 years). The vast majority of anesthesia residents complete this training in four years. Some programs retain residents as CA-4’s to function as chief residents.</p>

<p>Here is an editorial that advocates expanding research training: <a href=“http://www.anesthesiology.org/pt/re/anes/fulltext.00000542-200609000-00005.htm;jsessionid=GypZf9g6MLHzyjQcPwrdbVVQh5zKlxQGWhrGFBTpXTKjqKg10B61!-1851260294!181195628!8091!-1[/url]”>http://www.anesthesiology.org/pt/re/anes/fulltext.00000542-200609000-00005.htm;jsessionid=GypZf9g6MLHzyjQcPwrdbVVQh5zKlxQGWhrGFBTpXTKjqKg10B61!-1851260294!181195628!8091!-1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Fellowship training in research, cardiac, pain, critical care, ob, or peds anesthesia adds one or more years.</p>