How to Prepare for Medical Residency Training?

Medical residency training in New York is needed to practice as a physician in the United States. It is also practiced by physicians who are fully licensed in order to practice medicine in other countries. While it is possible to get a medical license to practice medicine in the US, without completing a US medical residency, it is not easy, and in some cases impossible to become a board-certified by the American Board of Specialties. Being board ineligible significantly limits the practice opportunities available to you, and also impacts your ability to get hospital privileges for many potential employers.

Length of Training: Medical residency is a minimum of three years for primary care physicians and other specialties, up to five years for some surgical specialties. (Some medical specialties require additional years of fellowship training in addition to the three to five years of residency training.)
When Is Medical Residency Completed? Medical residency training begins after graduating from an accredited medical school with a medical degree (MD, DO, or a foreign medical degree). It lasts usually three to five years, depending on the specialty.

Even if you practiced medicine for many years in another country, it is a requirement of most medical facilities to complete a US residency program before being granted privileges to practice there.

How Medical Students Are Matched With Residency Programs? You should start by researching the various programs through the AMA site, which offers links to each residency with information about the number of slots available, compensation, and when to apply and interview for each year of residency. Then you would interview various programs that interest you, and go through a selection procedure.

The medical residency interview and selection process allow each applicant to rank their top choices of medical residency programs, while the programs, in turn, rank their top applicants. Then, all of the rankings and results are computed, and matches are made to most effectively accommodate the top choices on both sides. Then the process culminates on “match day” when the results are revealed, and the new residents find out where they “matched” and where they will attend residency training for the next few years.

These are some of the facts you ought to keep in mind before you enroll yourself in medical residency training in New York. Make sure you keep them in mind and then get started.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

What do you need to know about USA Medical License Test?

Ways to thrive during clinical rotations

Everything about Medical Residency Programs