Is European postgraduate training (residency/fellowship) recognized in the US?

[shreypete]

and vice versa? Especially from and to the following countries:

Switzerland
Norway
Sweden
The Netherlands
France
UK
Ireland

Thank you

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[moldovanits]

and vice versa? Especially from and to the following countries:

Switzerland
Norway
Sweden
The Netherlands
France
UK
Ireland

Thank you

Your residency can be recognized in europe but if you want to practice in the states you have to do your residency all over again.

Lublin 2013

 

[Winged Scapula]

HIGHLY variable depending on not only the country of training but the specialty you are anticipating practicing in.

General Surgery, for example, will allow some foreign training credit (this is relatively new) but the catch is you already have to be in a US training program to get the credit. You would likely not be hired or be given privileges without completing a US residency (and being BE/BC), although some exceptions are made for fellowship trained foreign surgeons or those who are recognized as international experts.

IMHO it is not "safe" to train abroad with the assumption that you'll be allowed to work in the US. Just read through SDN and see the sad stories of attendings from other countries working as phlebotomists, taxi drivers, etc.

 

[McGillGrad]

To refer to the wonderfully realistic show "ER", you have to redo your residency if you want to practice in the US, unless you were trained in Canada.

 

[ShyRem]

There are physicians from other countries who have been neurologists, cardiologists, etc. who consider themselves lucky to get a family medicine residency so they can practice medicine here in the US.