Primary Care Residency Panel - Family Medicine and Combined Medicine-Pediatrics Programs

Interested in pediatrics and internal medicine but can't decide between the two?
Don't understand the difference between Family Medicine and Med-Peds?
Want to meet some family medicine or med-peds faculty?

Join us for panel of faculty members from the BMC Family Medicine Program, Brigham Women's/Children's
Hospital Med-Peds Program, and MGH Med-Peds Program.

When: Thursday, January 29 at 6:00 pm
Where: Hiebert Lounge

Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Programs are combined 4 year training programs with 2 yrs of pediatrics training and 2 yrs of internal medicine training. Residents graduate double-boarded in both pediatrics and internal medicine and can practice in either or both fields.

Family Medicine Residency Programs are generally 3 year training programs. Residents will graduate boarded in family medicine and will be able to practice a wide scope of medicine that includes OB, pediatrics and adult medicine.

The panelists include:

• Dr. Niraj Sharma, Director of the Brigham-Women's/Children's Medicine-Pediatrics Program
• Dr. David Ting, Director of the MGH Medicine-Pediatrics Program
• Dr. Joanne Wilkinson, Associate Predoctoral Director of the BMC Family Medicine Program
• Dr. Susan Hata, Med-peds at MGH Back Bay
• Dr. Colleen Monaghan, Associate Director of the Brigham-Women's/Children's Medicine-Pediatrics Program
• Dr. Eileen Pierce, Family Medicine at East Boston Neighborhood Health Center

Come learn about both specialties! There will be plenty of time for questions and interaction with faculty. Dinner will be served!

This event is co-sponsored by FMIG and PEDS Group.