mayank6nov
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YES I have 9 till now , i am expecting my CS Results in Jan 2008.
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| NeuroToPsych
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I have 10 IV´s and no ECFMG certificate yet. I am sitting for CS in December. I guess this is a red flag for PDs, I am sure we would get more IVs if we were certified.
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| newyg
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Neurotopsych, you have got what you could have got with or without certification. You have perfect credentials that PDs wouldnt even dare questioning a failure of CS. Simply what I mean is that you would not get Hopkins and Stanford IVs even if you did have the certification 
But for those who have loose applications and credentials, certification would boost theirs.
Btw NeurotoPsych.. I have a Q that I've long wanted to ask to you... why psych? I mean have you not satisfied with neurology? Or what is it that made you begin a new path in psych even though you have achieved so much in Neuro already, ie junior faculty??? What is it that attracted to you most to Psych? Please dont take this Q wrong way, I am just curious to learn about your point of view as a neurologist prefering a whole new life in psych.
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| NeuroToPsych
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Dear newyg:
You should read my PS! Haha! I always wanted to be a psychiatrist. in 2002, just after finishing med school, I was about to apply for a psych position in US, but different personal reasons made me stay in Argentina. So I decided not to do psychiatry in my country, because I knew the time would come for me to study Psych in America. I loved Neurology all the way, and now I am ready to continue the road I had chosen back then. I did not waste my time, by the way!
In the end, we are talking about patients, and their brains are the same, it is only ourselves who have built barrires between different specialties.
In a few years, everything will be a single specialty, maybe with different tracks inside, but under one department (I hope so!!)
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| newyg
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NeurotoPsych; There is a saying you know: "There was medicine. Then doctors made specialties. And now doctors fight between specialties over the same medicine" This actually is a medical variation of a well known religious quote "there was God, then men made religions. and now men fight between religions over the same God"
I agree with you on the matter that Psychiatry is getting more and more biologic everyday, in other words getting closer to Neurology, basicly regarding new treatment modalities. Even though neuro and psych are becoming sisters in new treatment modalities, they still differ a lot in patient evaluation, diagnosis and follow-up. So an assumption of 2 core specialties under one roof in a foreseeable future would be beyond my point of view. Although invention of more organic diagnostic methods for psych disorders would end up in your assumptions of one umbrella specialty.
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| NeuroToPsych
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newyg I agree with you. That is another reason for which I am applying for a residency and not just a fellowship in neuropsychiatry. There is still more in our minds than just dopamine serotonin and acetilcholine, isn't it?
This thread is becoming almost phylosophical, and I like it!!!! 
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| puchpal
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i beg to differ about something coming up as pure biological psychiatry
u take psychoanalysis and human angle out
and it is not psych
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