I want to be an anesthesiologist, but what the hell is a "resident", which is required for four years?
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Lucas say: It means you're going to work in a hospital under supervision, it's like a training "see-and-learn" sort of thing. It goes after you completed medical school and prior to becoming an anesthesiologist. You need four years doing "residence".
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Roger the Mole say: A person participating in a residency program.
residency: a period of advanced medical training and education that normally follows graduation from medical school and licensing to practice medicine and that consists of supervised practice of a specialty in a hospital and in its outpatient department and instruction from specialists on the hospital staff.
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ANDRE L say: Anyone who has no idea what a medical residency is is clearly not remotely ready for any medical schooling.
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Never Trump say: So... to become an anesthesiologist, you'd have to finish four years in college, four years in medical school, and then four years in anesthesia residency. In medical school you learn general principles of medicine - so you'll learn a bit about surgery, a bit about internal medicine, a bit about pediatrics, a bit about anesthesia, etc, etc.
In residency, however, you'll be learning only about your specialty and you'll be expected to practice it with an increasingly greater degree of autonomy. As an intern (first year of residency), you'll be supervised quite closely but as a fourth year resident, the supervision will be much less and you'll be expected to recognize if there's a problem on your own and get the senior doctor if that happens.
Residency used to be quite grueling but recently regulations have been instituted to limit residents to no more than 80 hours of work in a week. This is quite reasonable as I know firsthand that beyond 80 hours, there isn't a damn bit of learning going on!
Training is different and a lot shorter for nurse-anesthetists (CRNA's) and you may want to look into that as an option if the 12 years in school are sounding a bit crazy to you.
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Mercy say: couple of years as an intern(no pay). Now you can use the DR title. Then you find a job ( get a hospital to take you on ) as a resident - 4 year contract and you get paid.
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Lisa A say: On the job training.
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? say: Its pretty much on the job additional training.
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Bill-M say: If you don't know what a Resident is, then now to you hope to get though Medical School??
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Yavan say: Hospital resident. You'd be assigned to a ward for a number of years.
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