Now, Wait A Dang Minute, Here!!!

[AngelfireRN]

Hi, all. I usually post in the General forum, did not know there was a thread for NPs.

I graduate December 13, a bit more than a month from now, and to say I'm a little overwhelmed is understating it by a landslide. I don't know if I can do this.

So, you can imagine my surprise when, the other day, as I arrived for my clinical rotation in my ER, the Medical Director (who's also my preceptor) and another doc told me to sit down so that we could talk.

My first thought was that I was in trouble. I'm very outspoken, and sometimes I come across as overbearing. But no, that was not it. Instead, I get the shock of my life....these two crazy fools want me to go to MEDICAL SCHOOL!

All I could think was, Now, wait a dang minute, here! I'm not even sure I'm going to survive NP school, and they want me to think about MED school?!?!?! I was completely floored.

Bottom line, I'm flattered, but I am scared outta my wits too. How did you NPs do it? Nursing school was never this bad! Thanks in advance.

[core0]

I looked at the website. Not sure if you are really bypassing any classes. I know a lot of med students have some time off i believe in 3 and 4 year. It seems like they just condense it more.

Pretty much. They leave out the summer vacation between the 1st and 2nd years. They also leave out all the elective rotations which brings you down to 3 years. The electives are where most people do auditions and tryouts to get good LORs for competitive specialties. In theory any medical school could do this, but without the guaranteed residency it wouldn't work. The two things that make this work are the fact that DO FP residencies don't all fill and DOs can go outside the MD match if they want so you could possibly try for a non primary care residency (at least a non-competitive one). So far from my understanding the plan is for only FP residency. If they allowed peds or IM then the student could go for fellowships which would defeat the purpose.

Bottom line if you want a reasonable chance at all residencies you have to do a full four year medical school.

David Carpenter, PA-C

[emtneel]

Pretty much. They leave out the summer vacation between the 1st and 2nd years. They also leave out all the elective rotations which brings you down to 3 years. The electives are where most people do auditions and tryouts to get good LORs for competitive specialties. In theory any medical school could do this, but without the guaranteed residency it wouldn't work. The two things that make this work are the fact that DO FP residencies don't all fill and DOs can go outside the MD match if they want so you could possibly try for a non primary care residency (at least a non-competitive one). So far from my understanding the plan is for only FP residency. If they allowed peds or IM then the student could go for fellowships which would defeat the purpose.

Bottom line if you want a reasonable chance at all residencies you have to do a full four year medical school.

David Carpenter, PA-C

yeah and in the grand scheme of things if you get in, what's 1 more year? and 50k?? really doesn't matter

[patrick1rn, MSN, RN, NP]

Good Deal, I graduate on Dec 13th myself. :nuke: