<p>For example, if you wanted to be a pediatrician for the longest time and you get a residency in it, BUT you end up hating it a year or two in, can you switch to a different one?</p>
<p>OR</p>
<p>Can you finish a residency in pediatrics but decide you want to be an ER doc and can you pursue a residency in Emergency Medicine?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Either scenario is possible. </p>
<p>For example, if you remember the very beginning of the tv show ER, Dr. Carter (Noah Wyle) had been a surgery intern, but then switched to EM. </p>
<p>You do have to go through the Match again though in order to accomplish this switch. </p>
<p>Also you don't have to put residency and fellowships back to back. The girl I'm currently dating has recently been thinking about doing her internal medicine residency, being a hospitalist once done, and then when she gets bored going back to do her nephrology fellowship (she loves kidneys...I think she's crazy but I like her anyways). </p>
<p>I know a family medicine doctor who was in practice for 20 years in a small town, moved to my town of current residence and went through a geriatrics fellowship, and is now doing geriatric medicine full time at my medical center.</p>
<p>Oh...that makes sense. Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>Also, starting in your third year of med school you'll do clinical rotations in different areas of medicine, to get exposure.</p>