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I started an FP residency in 2002. I dropped out half way through.
I am now back in an internshp (transitional year). I plan to go to a psych residency after my internship.
Someone in my internship told me that medicare has a point system. Once you declare a specialty, you get a certain number of points. FP gets 3 points, for example. Surgery would of course get five points.
The kicker is that if you tried to switch from something with fewer points to a program with higher points, Government funding would run out after your 3 points is out.
So, as it applies to me, I am looking for a psych res, which would be three additional years after my internship. Does this mean that my last year would be not funded or funded at 1/2 a point??
I personally have never heard of this point system before today. Does anyone here know how this works? Will I not get funded in my last year of psychiatry? I am kind of worried. I really like psych and I just wanted to know how this point system thing is going to affect me.
sincerley, thax.
I am now back in an internshp (transitional year). I plan to go to a psych residency after my internship.
Someone in my internship told me that medicare has a point system. Once you declare a specialty, you get a certain number of points. FP gets 3 points, for example. Surgery would of course get five points.
The kicker is that if you tried to switch from something with fewer points to a program with higher points, Government funding would run out after your 3 points is out.
So, as it applies to me, I am looking for a psych res, which would be three additional years after my internship. Does this mean that my last year would be not funded or funded at 1/2 a point??
I personally have never heard of this point system before today. Does anyone here know how this works? Will I not get funded in my last year of psychiatry? I am kind of worried. I really like psych and I just wanted to know how this point system thing is going to affect me.
sincerley, thax.
