Residency

Residency is a stage of graduate medical training. A resident or house officer is a physician who practices medicine usually in a hospital. Physician training in the United States, require four years of residency training for board eligibility certification in anesthesiology. Which usually includes, one year of general medical, pediatric, or surgical training followed by three years of clinical anesthesiology training under the eyes of experienced anesthesiologists. After residency many…

US Immigration law can be confusing because it includes many different ways foreigners can enter the country. The laws encompass people that visit the US, want to work in the US, want to get a Green Card, and becoming a US Citizen. The immigration system is also set up to cover people seeking asylum, refugees, and Diversity Visa Lottery Program. Visiting the US for short periods falls under the non-immigrant visa status as long as they do not intend to work in the US. Some countries, are…

There are thousands of career options to consider when making the decision of what you want to be when you grow older. For me, becoming a neurosurgeon was a very recent interest I had taken on. A neurosurgeon is a surgeon who specializes in the examination and identifying the necessary surgical treatment regarding the brain and spine. Some diagnoses are trauma, tumors, disorders, infections and diseases that can occur in the brain or spinal cord. The educational path and training to become a…

However, I believe there is no substitute for the hands-on experience, knowledge,clinical skills and confidence I can gain from successfully completing a structured residency in Family Medicine . I strongly believe the acquisition of these assets will better position me to become a competent primary-care practitioner capable of delivering high quality service to those in my care and, furthermore, will allow me to contribute…

these 8 million undocumented workers, many of which cannot apply for citizenship under the 14th amendment, due to not being residents, cannot apply for residency due to the application process. The problem with undocumented workers not being able to apply for residency is that the application process is nearly nonexistent; the only way to obtain residency at the moment is through the company you work for by a recommendation, through a family member over the age of twenty-one and is a United…

Beginning in 2012 people sitting for the board exams will be obligated to have a degree or be pursuing a degree from an accredited medical physics masters, PhD, or clinical residency program per the American Board of Radiology (ABR). Eventually, the people sitting for boards will be required to graduates in an accredited residency program. When a person becomes certified by the ABR they are deemed ready to practice…

Next you will have to get a Medical Degree which will prepare you will for your pediatric residency and will take around another four years. Next, you will need to enter a Pediatric Residency this is hands on training with someone watching over you this can take anywhere from seven to…

A residency can take anywhere between three to five years, depending on the specialty you wish to focus on. Primary care physicians and some other specialties only require a residency of approximately three years. However, some surgical specialties may take up to five years. [7] After completing their residency, they must complete a fellowship in children’s surgery. A fellowship is a surgeon who has completed their residency, but has possibly not become Board certified…

1942, the world was broken by segregation. Martin Luther King Jr. established racial equality. Martin Luther's success for racial equality will help me achieve my dream of becoming a surgeon. His dream will help me by exposing me to new and different cultures, allow me to converse with people of other races, and to develop a diverse patient population as a surgeon. Exposure to culture is important to our society. Learning about new cultures that are different to what I am used to will help me…

As I began my residency in pathology in the Mount Sinai Health System, my interest and passion for head and neck pathology grew as I became exposed to challenging and more complex cases. I enjoyed each and every day of my surgical pathology rotations, particularly when encounter a complex specimen, of the head and neck. It was a great experience to learn how pathologists lead a diagnostician to integrate the clinical, morphologic and immunophenotypic features of each disease process to reach…