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What is "getting your residency"?

I was interested in going into the medical field, and people often refer to getting something called "your residency". #doctor #residency

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Gary’s Answer

Hi,
Very good question...I watch a lot of TV medical shows and still did not know exactly what it meant...here is an explanation I found on Wiki --- good luck!


Residency is a stage of graduate medical training. A resident or house officer is a physician (holding either a M.D., D.O., or MBBS, MBChB, BMed degree) who practices medicine usually in a hospital or clinic. The definition of residency varies worldwide by country and structure of the medical industry. In the US, it is classically associated with physicians (M.D. or D.O.). The training programs of allied health professionals may also involve a period of training termed "residency." This includes pharmacists, physical therapists, physician assistants, veterinarians, podiatrists, medical physicists, optometrists, and dentists.


A residency may follow the internship year or include the internship year as the first year of residency. The residency can also be followed by a fellowship, during which the physician is trained in a specialty or a sub-specialty. Successful completion of residency training is a requirement to practice medicine in many jurisdictions.


Whereas medical school teaches physicians a broad range of medical knowledge, basic clinical skills, and supervised experience practicing medicine in a variety of fields, medical residency gives in-depth training within a specific branch of medicine. A physician may choose a residency in anesthesiology, ophthalmology, dermatology, emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, otolaryngology, pathology, pediatrics, plastic and reconstructive surgery, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, radiology, radiation oncology, neurosurgery, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, surgery, or other specialties.
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Madison’s Answer

Great question! So you do 4 years of medical school and then everyone will be a "doctor" however, you have to be some type of doctor. So you pick specialty you want to match into for residency. This consists of options like (obgyn, pediatrics, family med, internal med, general surgery, anesthesia, ortho, plastics, radiology, urology, pathology ect). You will then match into a residency program within that specialty and after your residency where you train in that specific field you get board certified as that type of doctor. After residency you can also go on if you choose to do a fellowship which is further sub-specialty training in your field.
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