Angela Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 Hi there, If someone is interested in Oncology as a specialty would that mean they would do internal medicine for residency, and specify Oncology? Just curious how that works? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cupofwater Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 you could also do surgery and do a fellowship in surgical oncology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satsuma Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 You could do a medical oncology fellowship via internal medicine. If you want to do radiation oncology then that is applied to straight from med school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cupofwater Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 and medical oncology is a fellowship for those who are in internal medicine. radiation oncology is another carms discipline in itself, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted February 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 Thanks for the input on both sugical route and internal medicine; For the internal medicine route, does that mean one would be matched for "hematology/oncology" and then if they would like to specialize say in breast cancer do that after as a fellowship? Similarly, for surgery, would one do "general surgery" the do say a specific cancer type fellowship? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-Stark Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 For internal, you'd spend the first three years in the general program, probably taking lots of hem/onc electives or selectives. Similarly, surgical oncology would be a fellowship following a general surgery residency, though I imagine such fellowships exist for ENT too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ploughboy Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 though I imagine such fellowships exist for ENT too. And ob/gyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NLengr Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 I think most surgical specialties would have a fellowship for malignancies of their particular system/area. There isn't one surgeon who handles breast/prostate/.../brain/GI cancers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loving_medicine Posted March 1, 2009 Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 If you want to do medical oncology, that is separate from hematology (they are both different subspecialties through internal medicine). However, if you go through the pediatrics route, then hematology/oncology is one subspecialty. As above, you can do fellowships in ALL of the surgical specialties/subspecialties in oncology (including gyencology) if you prefer the surgical route vs. radiation/chemotherapy. Recently, I found out that you can do an R3 year in family medicine at the University of Ottawa in medical oncology! and actually practice as a medical oncologist (vs. going through 3 years of internal first). Sounds like another ER kinda thing that is only available in Ottawa currently, but probably will flourish across the country if it works out well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
physiology Posted October 10, 2009 Report Share Posted October 10, 2009 GP --> extra one year for GP-oncology Surgery ---> extra 1-3 years for surg onc Gyne --> 1-2 year fellowship for gyne onc Internal medicine --> med onc; 3-4 years, then 2 year fellowship; Peds --> Peds heme/ onc; 3-4 years general pediatrics, then 2 year fellowship 5 years of rad onc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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