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chemamr
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 1) Which is the difference between a NON-designated preliminary position and a Preliminary position? 2) Which is the difference between a university program and an Affiliated university program? 3) And for example if i want to study a subspeciality in general surgery (but i need to study at least the first 3 years of Gral surgery to be eligible for that sub), i know i must apply to gral surgery, my question is do i must apply to only PRELIMINARY position because of this?? THANK YOU IN ADVANCE  . I NEED SOME HELP HERE.
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chemamr
| Forum Hero Topics: 340 Posts: 4448
does anybody knows?
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cgr2005
| Forum Senior  Topics: 1 Posts: 160
Designated prelim programs are reserved for individuals who are training in a designated specialty (eg derm, radiology). You don't need three years of prelim to enter surgical training. You only need prelim positions for things like anesthetics, radiology, ophthalmology etc. Subspecialty surgery requires you (generally) to complete a general surgery specialty first, and you don't need a prelim year for this. Affiliated programs tend to be less academic than university based programs. hope that helps, CGR
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chemamr
| Forum Hero Topics: 340 Posts: 4448
thank you CGR for your explanation. But i´m not clear enough about my question number 3. For example if i want to study neurosurgery I only need 1 year of Gral Surgery and after that the other 4 years of Neurosurgery. Or if i want Plastic (you know there are 2 ways, 6 years or 3+3y) i need only 3 years of gral surgery and after that the other 3 years of Plastic Surgery. That´s what I mean. If I want one of these, what do i have to choose? preliminary non-designated preliminary categoric I´m confused about it.
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sharvil
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for neuro surgery you need to go via the sfmatch.org and then apply for neuro surgery starting from pgy2 and you apply for pgy1 in gen surg so you are a designated preliminary who is going to to neruosurgery from next year. for plastics 6 year program you need to be doing a general surgery categorical residency and from the third year you go into plastics....... non designated preliminary year is a year after which you have admission no where, so you have to apply all over again for surgery, this is usually how FMGs enter the us surgery categorical spots, after one or sometimes 2 years as a non designated prelim hope that helps so in a nutshell as a designated prelim your next years admission i.e. pgy2 onwards is fixed as a non designated prelim your pgy2 admission is not fixed all the best
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chemamr
| Forum Hero Topics: 340 Posts: 4448
thank you sharvil, that explanation was good!. I sent you a PM. Please answer me 
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