Subs and residencies

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(03-29-2017, 11:44 PM)Guest Wrote:

(03-29-2017, 08:33 PM)Ventricles Wrote:

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(03-25-2017, 07:47 PM)Focus Wrote:

(03-25-2017, 07:18 PM)Guest Wrote: Sorry, whats an infolded or an exfolded fellowship.

seen this mentioned before, but never understood what it is.

Most residents have 1 to 2 years of elective time during the 7 years. Some programs allow a senior resident to pursue a fellowship, usually but not always at the home institutoon, during residency. These fellowships are more and more being recognized and accepted especially with the invention of CAST accredidation. Ive never heard it called exfolded but presumably that is referring to the traditional option, doing a fellowship after you graduate residency. Of note, peds currently rejects any suggestion of doing infolded fellowships.

what are some of the programs that offer infolded fellowships?

Pretty much any place that post-grad fellowships and a residency program will allow their residents to pursue infolded fellowships. Someplaces, like Penn State, only offer infolded fellowships.

How common is it to have the opportunity to pursue an enfolded fellowship at another institution? I have seen where some chief residents may have done a cerebrovascular fellowship at another hospital and returned to their original residency program to finish out their chief year.

It has been done but it is not very common. It needs to be worked out between your home program and the fellowship program.  The biggest issues are call and pay.  The institution where you are working should technically be paying you while you are there.  If not, your home program has to continue to pay your salary, which they can't do with the typical resident money doled out by the hospital.  This means your department would need to be willing to foot the bill.  In addition, you aren't in your home call pool anymore which can cause problems.  That being said, there are some programs that will work with you on things like this.