Can someone explain residencies, fellowships, and internships, I'm totally confu

[BeatrixKiddo]

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sed, like what are they all meaning??

 

[mirakate]

Residency: the period directly after MS, where you learn what you're doing. i.e. general surgery residency.
Fellowship: after residency, a shorter program for specialty. i.e. trauma/scc fellowship.

Intern year: PGY1, the first year of residency.

 

[Captain Fantastic]

Completing a residency will make you "board eligible" for that specialty. Then you can sit for the boards and (once you pass) become "board certified" in that specialty.

Completing a fellowship will make you "board eligible" for that sub-specialty. Pass the sub-specialty boards to become "board certified" in the sub-specialty. Most places require you be BE/BC in the specialty before you enter the fellowship for sub-specialty training.

 

[Haemulon]

An internship is your first year of residency after medical school. In some cases it will be part of your residency program (such as your first year of a 3 year internal medicine residency). Other times it will be in the form of a preliminary year that may or may not be at the same school/hospital as the rest of your residency. For instance, you need to do a year of surgical or medicine internship prior to beginning a radiology or dermatology residency. A fellowship will follow your residency (if you choose to do one) and would be like doing an infectious disease or cardiology fellowship after internal medicine, or a dermatopathology fellowship after dermatology. Hope this helps.

 

[I am Hans]

Completing a residency will make you "board eligible" for that specialty. Then you can sit for the boards and (once you pass) become "board certified" in that specialty.

Completing a fellowship will make you "board eligible" for that sub-specialty. Pass the sub-specialty boards to become "board certified" in the sub-specialty. Most places require you be BE/BC in the specialty before you enter the fellowship for sub-specialty training.

Not all fellowships have a board (for example, Trauma surgery does not...so you would be BE/BC in general surgery, but not Trauma. If you completed a Trauma/CC fellowship, Critical Care DOES have a board, so you would be BE for that, but not for Trauma.).

 

[146233]

Not all fellowships have a board (for example, Trauma surgery does not...so you would be BE/BC in general surgery, but not Trauma. If you completed a Trauma/CC fellowship, Critical Care DOES have a board, so you would be BE for that, but not for Trauma.).

I believe Hans is referring to "Surgical Critical Care".