I want to be a pediatrician & was just wondering whether or not residency is during or after med school. It seems different websites have different answers. This might be an extremely stupid question but thanks!
All residencies are after medical school.
Pediatrics requires 4 years of med school plus 3 years of pediatrics residency.
If you want to further specialize (i.e. pediatric neurology, adolescent medicine, pediatric emergency medicine, pediatric allergies & immunology, neonatal/perinatal medicine, medical genetics, etc.), you’ll need another 3-4 years of fellowship study after finishing a pediatrics residency.
See: [Residency Roadmap: Pediatrics](http://residency.wustl.edu/Choosing/SpecDesc/Pages/Pediatrics.aspx)
Any website that says anything other than “residency comes after medical school” needs to be ignored.
Do not confused Residency and Rotation, residency is done after med school, while rotation is for the 3rd and 4th year med school students.
Actually there are rotations during residency, not just in med school. Rotation just means that a student/resident is assigned to work in a particular department for a period of time. It doesn’t even have to be in their own specialty.
For example, an OBGYN resident will have OBGYN rotations in L&D, family planning, well woman clinic, urogyn, gyn onc, REI, MFM, in-patient wards, and outpatient obstetrics clinic as well as rotations in emergency medicine, MICU/SICU, surgery, sonography, and sometimes internal or family medicine (“off service rotations”)
Ok I thought residency was after med school but my friend & a few websites insisted it could be during…Thanks so much! 
Literally never visit those websites again. They can’t possibly be providing you with accurate information about anything else if they are getting something so simple incorrect.