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All this talk about Med-Peds, what about Med/Psych?
Any other applicants out there?
Any other applicants out there?
Did Brody give you a list of days they were holding interviews? I haven't heard from them yet.
Just curious, I know it's probably highly variable from year to year and given the small number of spots around, but is Med-Psych generally extremely competitive?
According to the NRMP 2011 Match Data,
11 Programs Total, 19 Positions Offered. 17 Matched, 9 of which were US MD students.
60 Total Applicants, 21 of which were US MD students.
Kind of off topic, but would someone who did a med/psych residency and then an addiction psychiatry residency be able to fill both the medical director and psychiatrist roles at a inpatient drug/alcohol treatment facility? Has anyone ever heard of this being done by med/psych, fp/psych, or otherwise?
It seems near impossible (if not down right impossible) to combine a career of IM and psych OUTSIDE of academics. Yes, the academic guys and girls cater their own careers and design how they spend each day. They can do a month of inpatient medicine attending and a month of psych consultation attending. They can do a medicine clinic 2 days a week and a psych clinic 2 days a week. They can do whatever they want.....and these same academic people will try to convince you it is doable in the private practice non-academic world. No way. If you are not going for a career in academics, ultimately you will have to choose between one or the other. Just know that going into the residency. It is a longer residency, at least one if not two more years tacked on, to ultimately have to choose between one or the other if you do not stay in academics.
In addition, it is important not to let the belief of "my background in IM will make me a better psychiatrist" or "my background in psych will make me a better IM doc" when choosing which one to do and doing an extended residency. In the end if you go the private practice route, it really will not make any difference in the end.
Hello all,
Just wondering if anyone here was applying this year to a combined med-psych program.
How: Epidemic health crisis with unmet needs (never enough beds), as well as when its met it is priced astronomically. By owning/managing, being the primary doc as well as counselor, and not dealing with insurance you can charge much less than the 50k plus it costs anywhere else in the US for 90 days. You can provide better care, accomodations and continuity of care while charging less cause you aren't a corporation or non contributing owner who has to pay other people to do all these things and net an ever increasing profit for your self. Also you get cash/credit up front from patients, but a low up front investment with the ease of a mortgage (commercial, maybe residential if u live there). You don't have to hire medical billing coders or invest in building a new facility. less expensive if you want it to work so you dont have to spend money on marketing and you maintain full occupancy by price alone. The equity in the mortgage besides money after expenses is your retirement fund or business reserve. Live there to really save money ornat least till you get it running well enough at first
Have interviews now for MUSC in Charleston and ECU in Greenville, NC. Only applied to 3--not bad
Nope, neither. In fact I've had very few elective rotations in which to audition before interview season as I am in an accelerated 3-yr program. I've been very pleased at the variety of community and university invites I've received.Did you do elective rotations at either of those two locations?
I'm applying for the Match next year for IM/Psych and I'm also curious as to how competitive they are!