<p>Which school would u want to go to? Is Med school really that much harder than optometry school? Does anybody have any first hand experience in terms of the amount of studying and stress? </p>
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<p>The answer to which is harder is going to depend on who you ask. ;-)</p>
<p>I doubt you’re going to find anyone who has “first hand” experience with both since people who go to optometry school won’t have any experience with med school, and vice versa. Med vs.optometry school is kind of an either-or situation.</p>
<p>Most people believe that medical school is harder. (Even my optometrist thinks so.) </p>
<p>The training period for physicians (4 years + residency + fellowship) is much longer than the training period for optometrists (3 years). Admission to medical school is more competitive than admission to optometry school.</p>
<p>Is the fellowship for specialty really challenging? Like say I want to become an ophthalmologist. Would there be long shifts and much pressure or is it much more laid back than the 4 years of residency that all medical doctors have to go through?
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<p>To become an Ophthalmologist, one must become a physician (8 years after high school), and land a residency in Ophthalmology, which requires very good grades in medical school and high board scores, and frequently research experience in Ophthalmology. All Ophthalmology residencies require the completion of a separate accredited internship year prior to beginning Ophthalmology residency, which is 3 years in length (4 more years total).</p>
<p>How does the training to become an ophthalmologist differ from the prerequisite general 4 years of residency? Is it more or less difficult in terms of hours and work?</p>
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<p>The length of a medical residency varies by specialty.</p>
<p>Family medicine, general internal medicine and pediatrics require 3 years of residency. Emergency medicine requires 4. General surgery requires 5. And so forth…</p>
<p>List of residency lengths here:</p>
<p>[Length</a> of Residencies](<a href=“http://residency.wustl.edu/Residencies/Pages/LengthofResidencies.aspx]Length”>http://residency.wustl.edu/Residencies/Pages/LengthofResidencies.aspx)</p>
<p>A fellowship is an additional 1-3 of even more specialized training after a residency has been completed.</p>
<p>For example, a gastro-enterologist will do an additional 3 years of a fellowship after finishing an internal medicine residency (3 years) for a total of 6 years. </p>
<p>For opthalmology, the resident would first do a full year in medical transitional program (PGY-1) during which he/she will be doing rotation in many medical fields (but not surgical fields). At the end of that, the resident would apply to take more specialized training in opthalmology. Those next 3 years would be in eye diseases/injuries & its treatment and eye surgery only.</p>
<p>Work hours and on-call is going to vary depending upon the specialty and the locations/needs of the program. Residents and fellows in all specialties will all work long hours, be on call for days at a time, and are expected to work odd shifts that include nights, weekends and holidays. Current federal law prohibits residents and fellows from working more than 80 hours/week. (Of course, there are many ways around this and in some specialties residents working 90 hours/week is pretty common.)</p>
<p>All residencies are stressful because of the workload and long hours involved. I’m not sure one can quantify this one or that one as being more stressful than another.</p>
<p>From how I understand that chart, ophthalmologists need 1 +3 years of residency; after graduating Med school, I only need four more years before I calling be an ophthalmologist. This seems to good to be true LOL because I always thought that to be an ophthalmologist, I need to graduate Med school, complete 4 years residency, then another 4 years of specialty training(total 8 years after Med school). Am I mistaken about the 4 years or are there really only 4 years after Med school to be an ophthalmologist?
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<p>it is college 4 years, then medical school 4 years, then 4 years of hospital training, so 12 years after end of high school</p>
<p>you will begin to be paid a wage during the final 4 years - enough to get by until you are finished.</p>