Medical question about residency

[doctor123]

<p>Is residency still like school? Is it still like college and med school, or is it just like what your future job is going to be. </p>

<p>So is there homework, or studying that you have to do, or are you just now doing your job.</p>

[Alix2012]

<p>Residency is what doctors do after they graduate med school, when they start working at a hospital with other doctors. Like the first 2 years of med school is more of the “student” experience in the classoroom, and starting 3rd year, med students do “rotations” where they work at a hospital in different departments. Med school isn’t like college where you just go to classes and pass tests. </p>

<p>Yeah, there are tests during residency too. There is an exam called the US Medical Licence Exam (USMLE) that has 3 “steps” and the final step is what they do in Residency. Got this off of wiki:

Step 3 is the final exam in the USMLE series designed to assess whether a medical school graduate can apply medical knowledge and understanding of biomedical and clinical science essential for the unsupervised practice of medicine. Graduates of US medical schools typically take this exam at the end of the first year of residency. Foreign medical graduates can take Step 3 before starting residency in about ten U.S. states.
Step 3 is 16 hour examination divided over two-days. Each day of testing must be completed within eight hours. The first day of testing includes 336 multiple-choice items divided into 7 blocks, each consisting of 48 items. Examinees must complete each block within sixty minutes. The second day of testing includes 144 multiple-choice items, divided into 4 blocks of 36 items. Examinees are required to complete each block within forty-five minutes. Approximately 3 hours are allowed for these multiple-choice item blocks. Also on the second day are nine Clinical Case Simulations, where the examinees are required to ‘manage’ patients in real-time case simulations. Examinees enter orders for medications and/or investigations into the simulation software, and the condition of the patient changes accordingly. Each case must be managed in a maximum of 25 minutes of actual time.

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[levirm]

<p>As a physician or other healthcare provider, you will do “studying and homework” for the rest of your life. That means reading journals, going to seminars, workshops, grand rounds, clinical conferences, research conferences, journal clubs, etc. etc… If you are in a remote area, you will do some of this by teleconference or webcast. Medicine is rapidly changing, and you will need to keep up…people’s lives depend on it!</p>