Fellowship (medicine)

A fellowship is the period of medical training in the United States and Canada that a physician or dentist may undertake after completing a specialty training program (residency). During this time (usually more than one year), the physician is known as a fellow. Fellows are capable of acting as attending physician or consultant physician in the generalist field in which they were trained, such as internal medicine or pediatrics. After completing a fellowship in the relevant sub-specialty, the physician is permitted to practice without direct supervision by other physicians in that sub-specialty, such as cardiology or oncology.

United States

In the USA, the majority of fellowships are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education ("ACGME"). There are a few programs that are not accredited as well, and are actually well received given that it is more important to be board certified for the primary specialty as a physician, and fellowship quality is often more based on research productivity.[1]

ACGME Fellowships

The following are organized based on specialty required for the fellowship.

Internal Medicine or Pediatrics

General Surgery

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ObGyn

[3] [4]

1 Not officially recognized as a subspecialty by the American Board of Obstetrics/Gynecology or the American College of Obstetrics/Gynecologists.

Ophthalmology

Urology

Orthopaedic

Other

Combined fellowships

There are a number of programs offering a combined fellowship, training in two or more sub-specialties as part of a single program.

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://med.stanford.edu/gme/programs/
  2. ↑ http://www.acgme.org/Specialties/Overview/pfcatid/24/Surgery/
  3. ↑ http://www.nrmp.org/fellowships/obstetricsgynecology-match/
  4. ↑ http://www.acgme.org/Specialties/Overview/pfcatid/12/Obstetrics%20and%20Gynecology/
  5. ↑ https://www.facs.org/education/resources/medical-students/faq/specialties
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