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A medical residency is a post-graduate educational and clinical training program for physicians in North America. It is filled by a resident physician who has received a postgraduate medical degree (M.D. or D.O.) and is enrolled in a clinical training program, generally affiliated with a hospital. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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The Medicinæ Doctor or Doctor of Medicine (M.D. or D.M.) is a doctorate level degree held by medical doctors. ...
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Where as medical school gives doctors a broad range of medical knowledge, basic clinical skills, and limited experience practicing the art of medicine, medical residency gives in-depth training within a specific branch of medicine, such as Anesthesiology, Dermatology, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pathology, Pediatric Medicine, Psychiatry, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Radiology, Radiation Oncology, General Surgery. The field of Surgery has several specialties such as neurosurgery, orthopaedics, otolaryngology,ophthalmology, urology. Medical residencies vary in duration from 3 years for primary care to upwards of 7 years for a more specialized field. Medical school generally refers to a tertiary educational institution (or part of such an institution) which is involved in the education of future medical practitioners (medical doctors). ...
Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics (BE: orthopaedics) is the branch of surgery concerned with acute, chronic, traumatic and recurrent injuries and other disorders of the locomotor system, its musclular and bone parts. ...
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The first year of residency has been called internship. Often the first hospital year is combined with a specialized residency program, but sometimes doctors do a year or two in a general field of study and then complete a separate specialty residency program.
In some of the United States, doctors can obtain a general medical license after completing one year of internship. Many residents have medical licenses and do legally practice medicine ("moonlight") without supervision in settings such as urgent care centers and rural hospitals. However, in all residency-related medical settings, residents are supervised by attending physicians who must approve their decision-making.
Doctors must complete a residency in their speciality in order to become board-certified. Board certification is not a requirement for the practice of medicine but it ensures the public that a doctor has completed training in a speciality and has passed an examination. In some specialities, recertification is required after a period of several years, to ensure that doctors stay up to date with new medical knowledge in their field. A certification, or qualification, is a designation earned by a person, product or process. ...
Access to graduate medical training programs such as residencies is competitive. Applicants apply to programs, are selected for interview, and submit a rank-order list to a centralized matching service (currently the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP). Residency programs submit a list of applicants in rank order as well. The two parties' lists are combined by an NRMP computer which (theoretically) creates optimal matches of residents to programs. On a certain day in March each year ("match day") these results are announced and are celebrated in hospitals and medical schools nationwide.
In 2000-2004 the matching process was irrationally attacked as anti-competitive by class-action lawyers. Congress reacted by requiring that antitrust cases cannot make that false argument.
Medical residencies traditionally required brutally long hours of their trainees - classically, 36-hour shifts separated by 12 hours' rest, and 100+ hour weeks. The American public (though not some physicians trained under the same circumstances) is increasingly recognizing that such long hours are counter-productive; sleep deprivation increases rates of medical errors and motor vehicle accidents. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has recently limited the number of work-hours to 80 hours weekly, overnight call frequency to no more than one overnight every third day, 30 hour maximum straight shift, and 10 hours off between shifts.
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