What's Residency after Medical School?
Where do you apply to residency at? Do you just apply to other colleges that have residency programs? Can someone explain the residency process to me?
Can someone explain medical school and residency?
I'm still in high school and i was wondering about the hardships of becoming a doctor. While in med school, will you have time to work a part time job? can you start a family while in med school? are there anyways to get a full ride at a med school? How is residency like, do you also have to pay to go to residency? i don't even know what it actually means lol
Can someone explain Med School and a residency ?
Okay so I know I have to go premed in undergraduate school to take the mcat then get into med school... And I know I have to take 4 years of med school then another 4 years of residency at a hospital... I'm going for psychiatry. I just would like to know if you are still considered a student while in the residency years? Do you still have to go to classes and take tests while your a resident after med school????
Life during medical school?
---What is life like during medical school? Your first two or so years of med school are pre-clinical; you'll be taking basic science classes. Depending on the school, you may be in class/lab between fifteen and forty hours per week. The courseload is much, much heavier than undergrad; almost all of your spare time will be spent studying, with *maybe* 1 or 2 other activities (volunteer work, research, a hobby, a social life). You could theoretically work 5 or 10 hours a week, but in practice nobody actually does this - it's more important to do well in class than to make a couple hundred dollars. Things usually only get harder after the first year. At the end of your pre-clinical years you take a national exam, the USMLE Step I; how you do on this exam to a large extent determines which specialties you are competitive for. Very high stakes. Your third year will be spent on a standard set of clinical rotations: Surgery, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, OB/Gyn, etc. Expect to spend 40-80+ hours a week in the hospital. You will be graded on your performance and on how you do on shelf exams at the end of every rotation. Your fourth year is more relaxed. You will have a few required rotations and lots of elective time. You will also be applying to residencies during this year. ---How do people with little outside help afford it? Loans. ---What a residency is It's kind of like an apprenticeship. You train at a hospital under the direction of senior residents and attendings, who are supposed to teach you the actual practice of medicine. Depending on your specialty, you'll work 50-80+ hours per week, taking overnight call every 4 days; you'll be paid about $50k per year.
Medical Schools: Primary Care vs. Research?
Primary Care schools center their curriculum around Clinical Skills that prepare their students to deal directly with patients. Research Medical Schools have some Clinical Skills training, but also have a research component that Primary Care Schools don't require (you can still do research at a Primary Care School, you just have to be proactive about it). The largest research requirements are through joint MD/PhD programs, during which students take 3 years in the middle of their Med School curriculum to complete a PhD level research project. To become a Pediatric Oncologist, you could go to either. After graduation, you'd want to apply to a joint Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency (it's a longer residency than either Internal Med or Pediatrics, but less time than doing them separately, and allows you to become Board Certified in either field). This would prepare you for a Fellowship in Pediatric Oncology. There isn't a required research component in many Med/Peds Residency programs, though you can also choose a Residency associated with a Research hospital instead of a straight up Teaching Hospital. The same is true for a Pediatric Oncology Fellowship - some are at Research Hospitals, some are not. The extent to which you want to include Research in your career is totally up to you.
After medical school what is matching??
Almost all medical students graduate in late spring and start their residencies the first of July. The match brings some order out of the chaos that would be certain if there were no system. It may sound daunting, but it's practical. You'll have job interviews at maybe a half dozen IM residencies, and they'll have a number of applicants, and rather than having bidding wars and such, the computer match fits the people with the positions pretty painlessly. Almost everybody gets a match that's acceptable to him, and almost all the slots are filled.