Question About Credentials

[QueryNeurology]

After you finish residency, do you actually get a 'degree' or certification that is recognized if you are to apply to do anything else postgraduate at a university?

For example, if you complete a Neurology residency, is there anything that you actually get (equivalent to a Masters or PhD) that can be used when applying to Neuroscience graduate programs?

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[ProfMD]

You get a certificate that says you completed residency.

Board certification is a larger process. Completing residency is an integral part of this process.

 

[QueryNeurology]

You get a certificate that says you completed residency.

Board certification is a larger process. Completing residency is an integral part of this process.

Does Board Certification give you a certificate (let's say equivalent to a Masters - when applying to masters programs at Universities?)

 

[ProfMD]

Does Board Certification give you a certificate (let's say equivalent to a Masters - when applying to masters programs at Universities?)

Like a piece of paper to hang on your wall? Yeah. You get one for each residency/fellowship too.

 

[Raryn]

After you finish residency, do you actually get a 'degree' or certification that is recognized if you are to apply to do anything else postgraduate at a university?

For example, if you complete a Neurology residency, is there anything that you actually get (equivalent to a Masters or PhD) that can be used when applying to Neuroscience graduate programs?

You get a piece of paper you can hang on the wall.

It's worth exactly what any degree is worth: Only what someone is willing to pay you now that you got it. A residency diploma and board certificate is an order of magnitude more valuable than most masters degrees, but it's not an academic credential to get into a PhD program. Your bachelors degree is good enough for that.

 

[eteshoe]

You get a piece of paper you can hang on the wall.

It's worth exactly what any degree is worth: Only what someone is willing to pay you now that you got it. A residency diploma and board certificate is an order of magnitude more valuable than most masters degrees, but it's not an academic credential to get into a PhD program. Your bachelors degree is good enough for that.

Technically and just as important - research experience

 

[mvenus929]

After you finish residency, do you actually get a 'degree' or certification that is recognized if you are to apply to do anything else postgraduate at a university?

For example, if you complete a Neurology residency, is there anything that you actually get (equivalent to a Masters or PhD) that can be used when applying to Neuroscience graduate programs?

I mean, you get a physical certificate, but it's not like a degree... it's post graduate training, similar to a post-doc for PhDs. You can put it on your application to graduate school, but what the admissions people actually think about it is likely widely variable.

And, of course, you have your MD (or DO, etc) as part of your educational history.

 

[caffeinemia]

The certificate of completion of a residency is just a shiny thing you put up on the wall. The reality is that completing residency allows your program to sign off on you sitting for written and or oral board examinations, which in the eyes of many hospitals and states, is the true test/validation of your ability to practice a specialty. I have no idea how graduate programs would treat a residency though..