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Med-peds: What medical students should know

By The DO Staff

07.25.23

If you were a third-year medical student completing your core rotations and had to choose between your passion for adult medicine or pediatric medicine, what would you choose? Why not both! Back in 1949, the combined internal medicine-pediatrics residency, or med-peds for short, began to blossom into what we now see as a four-year residency program.