<p>Everything you need to know about different specialties in medicine. </p>
<p>Includes:
Anesthesiology
Dermatology
Diagnostic Radiology
Emergency Medicine
Family Practice
General Surgery
Internal Medicine
Neurology
Neurosurgery
Ob/Gyn
Ophthalmology
Orthopaedic Surgery
Otolaryngology
Pathology
Pediatrics
Physical Medicine
Plastic Surgery
Psychiatry
Radiation Oncology
Urology</p>
<p>Greatly appreciated. Very valuable site indeed!</p>
<p>thanks for the link</p>
<p>ASMAJ, BRM, $0.02, BDM, Hydrogen3K,
Please fill up the below table. (hope the table shows up OK when posted)
Will be helpful for MDwannabes.</p>
<p>Specialty # of years of Residency/# of years of Fellowship/ Top schools<br>
required expected in this area
_________________________________________________________________ Anesthesiology<br>
________________________________________________________________ Dermatology </p>
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<p>Diagnostic Radiology<br>
_______________________________________________________________ Emergency Medicine </p>
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<p>Family Practice </p>
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<p>General Surgery </p>
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<p>Internal Medicine </p>
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<p>Neurology </p>
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<p>Neurosurgery </p>
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<p>Ob/Gyn </p>
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<p>Ophthalmology </p>
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<p>Orthopaedic Surgery </p>
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<p>Otolaryngology </p>
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<p>Pathology </p>
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<p>Pediatrics </p>
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<p>Physical Medicine </p>
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<p>Plastic Surgery </p>
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<p>Psychiatry </p>
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<p>Radiation Oncology </p>
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<p>Urology</p>
<p>Gosh! Anyone can tell me how to post a table in messages?</p>
<p>I honestly believe that this info will go beyond what pre-meds really need. Especially with the link above available to everyone. And I'm not sure what you're going for with "top schools required expected in this area".</p>
<p>Pre-meds should just realize that residency is 3-7 years, with the primary care programs (medicine, peds, family, and emergency) being 3 years, the surgical specialties and radiology being 5 years, and the rest being 4 years (path, derm, ophtho, psych, etc). Fellowship lengths will vary depending on the field. The problem is that most medical students change their minds frequently. Pre-meds really only need the basics, if they need more, they can use the link provided.</p>
<p>ASMAJ's link covers the residency details well.
This thread may be helpful: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=252828%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=252828</a></p>
<p>"Top schools" is a matter of opinion.</p>
<p>Hi My$0.02,</p>
<p>The link you have provided below is very extremely helpful. Your kind help is greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Hi BRM,</p>
<p>No offense .......but this thread is a subsection of 'PreMeds & Medical School'. Therefore, not entirely restricted to undergrad PreMeds, IMO. </p>
<p>I think the humble objective (at least in my mind) is to create a compendium of relevant information for all undergrad Premeds as well as for others (like me) who are decades beyond these youthful years, neverthless surf these threads to enlighten ourselves about what our children are planning for.</p>
<p>I realize that my handle on-line is a misnomer carried over the years from my very first email account in the Pharma world......but I am way beyond Premed years and still on line here. So, I assume there have to be more like me on line too.</p>
<p>Regarding 'top residencies' - In my decades in Pharma drug development life, I have sensed some subliminal messages about which schools are top tier for which therapeutic areas. I base this on my experience with other Pharma R&D MDs, MD/PhDs I work with. May be I am wrong about these but so far, my understanding is that the top known institutions by therapeutic area include/but are not limited to -</p>
<p>Neuroscience - Mayo Clinic, Columbia, Harvard, UCSF, UCLA, WashU (I say this since all our KOLs come from these institutions)
Cardiovascular - Cleveland Clinic, Baylor
Oncology - Mem Sloan, MD Anderson</p>
<p>This in no way means that one can not get quality education elsewhere. I suspect the 'top tier' status may have been linked by my colleagues to quality of research? Perhaps not the best guage if you are not interested in Research.</p>
<p>Just my 2 cents!</p>
<p>I'm not trying to be rude, but...</p>
<p>My point is 1) there has already been links given to good information</p>
<p>2) Current medical students have plenty of other resources available to them that are not available to the general public (such as the AAMC's Careers in Medicine website) which are going to be more informative, more relevant, and more accurate than anything posted in one internet forum on one thread. This includes information from their schools, their professors, and older students. </p>
<p>3) The forums at Student Doctor Net have a much larger population of pre-meds, medical students, residents, fellows and practicing physicians than does this forum, along with specific threads for each specialty which are going to be able to provide more specific answers for individuals with more specific questions. </p>
<p>While I still believe that most pre-meds don't need this much information, there are other resources out there which are going to be better than this single thread.</p>