Residency + Fellowship
As mentioned previously, residency is the period during your career where you train to become the type of physician you wish to be (i.e. cardiologist, internist, dermatologist, ophthalmologist, anesthesiologist, etc).Residency is required in order to become a practicing physician. A residency can be between 1 and 7 years. A fellowship follows a residency, and is usually the time at which one further specializes. Almost every field as fellowships whereby physicians can sub-specialize. The field with the most fellowships is Internal Medicine (this is the path toward Cardiology, Pulmonology, etc - see list below).
Many times students are confused as to what kind of physicians they can be.
The list is quite vast and varied and there is usually a fit for any type of student; throughout years 3 and 4 of medical school (during rotations), students will be able to identify what field they would like to go into. Here is a sample of some of the fields of medicine one can enter:
Many times students are confused as to what kind of physicians they can be.
The list is quite vast and varied and there is usually a fit for any type of student; throughout years 3 and 4 of medical school (during rotations), students will be able to identify what field they would like to go into. Here is a sample of some of the fields of medicine one can enter:
- Anesthesiology
- Dermatology
- Emergency Medicine
- Family Medicine
- General Surgery
- Internal Medicine (see specialties below)
- Adult Critical Care
- Allergy and Immunology
- Cardiology
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- Geriatric Medicine
- Hematology/Oncology
- Infectious Disease
- Nephrology
- Oncology
- Pulmonology
- Rheumatology
- Sports Medicine
- Neurology
- Nuclear Medicine
- Obstetrics & Gynecology (OBGYN)
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedic Surgery
- Pathology
- Pediatrics
- Plastic Surgery
- Psychiatry
- Radiation Oncology
- Radiology
- Transitional Year