I want to be an oncologist: Where to start?
In this epidose of Lung Cancer Considered, Dr. Narjust Florez leads a discussion on the journey to an oncology fellowship. Medical training is long, full of sacrifices and student debt for many. For our listeners, after graduating from pre-med or undergraduate studies future physicians need to complete 4 years of medical school, followed by 3 years of internal medicine residency or 5 years of surgery or radiation oncology residency. For internal medicine residents they need to complete 3 to 4 additional years of hematology and oncology fellowship. Today we will be discussing recommendations for a smooth search, transition, and completion of an oncology fellowship. Guests: Dr. Christine Garcia, thoracic medical oncologist and fellowship program director at Weill Cornell Medicine in NYC. Dr. Regina Barragan-Carrillo, who completed her medical oncology fellowship in the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán in Mexico City and is currently a research fellow at City of Hope. Dr. Jennifer Marks, chief oncology fellow at Georgetown University with a focus on thoracic oncology.