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Did you do a residency after going to college? If so what is it like?

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Gerald’s Answer

Medical residency training occurs after the 4 years of medical school, depending on your field of interest and what residency program you get "matched" into. Residency is where you take all of what you learned in the 4 years of medical school, to apply in interviewing patients, examining patients based on the reason you are seeing them, and coming up with a plan of care which could be medications or it could be more testing (blood work, imaging, etc). When you're a resident, you are supervised by an attending physician where you would present each patient's case to the attending physician, present to them your plan, and receive feedback on that plan. It all depends on which field you're interested in pursuing, but most residency programs entail long hours, such that there are rules to how many hours you can work consecutively, and in a week, to prevent making extremely important decisions while being sleep-deprived and not at your best. In addition to patient care, there are educational sessions, the opportunity to perform research, and to further explore what you're good at, what you would like to further explore as a career, and to teach and supervise medical students during their clinical rotations.
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Yasemin’s Answer

Hi Emma! Hope all is well! Based on residency do you mean in terms of being a physician? With that being said, residency period is usually a physician in training- you still are an intern and treat patients but with other physicians- an attending who has the greater responsibility. You are obtaining pay but are not allowed to care for a patient by yourself yet; residency times change for a physician, for example for surgery it is 5 years and for Psychiatry it is 4 years. Mostly they range from 3 to up to 7 years. I am not so sure about PA specifically so I answered from a medical physician viewpoint. I would also like to add that residency is after medical school and medical school is after college. As a personal/side note on how residency is: my brother is in residency now and from what I've seen are that his shifts change and it has been dynamic, especially with COVID, but everything so far is going well! I hope this helps!

Best of luck!
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