AH020387 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Residency
What does 'residency' mean in the following sentence:
A psychiatrist has a medical doctor's degree who completed residency training in psychiatry.
A psychiatrist has a medical doctor's degree who completed residency training in psychiatry.
Top answer
, a medical student goes to school for 4 years, then completes an internship at a hospital before receiving his or her medical degree. , they then complete another period of training in that specialty at a hospital working under other doctors who are already specialists in that field of medicine. That period of training is called a residency.
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In the U.S., a medical student goes to school for 4 years, then completes an internship at a hospital before receiving his or her medical degree. If they want to become a specialist in one field of medicine, such as psychiatry, or cardiology, or obstetrics, etc., they then complete another period of training in that specialty at a hospital working under other doctors who are already specialists
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Probably the reason the sentence above is pointing out that a psychiatrist is a medical doctor is that many people seem unaware of that, and confuse the credentials of a psychiatrist with those of a Ph.D. psychologist. Psychiatrists are fully qualified medical doctors who can prescribe medications. Post medical school and internship, they have completed a residency in psychiatry to specialize i
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