What is the Difference Between a Resident and a Fellow Surgeon?
asked 1 year ago by bri69 in hoboken.nj
Latest answer by Steven Wallach, MD
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someone suggested i go to a fellow surgeon for a tummy tuck over a resident, what is the difference really?
3 answers to What is the Difference Between a Resident and a Fellow Surgeon?
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Meaning of INTERN, RESIDENT and FELLOW
The current American system of graduate medical education was introduced by William Stewart Halstead, Chief Surgeon and a founder of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (one of their famous Four Horsemen).
After completing the four years of basic medical education a medical school offers, doctors may choose further specialization post graduate training hospitals associated with hospitals.
INTERN - the first year of post-medical school hospital training. In the old days, these young...
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Resident vs Fellow
Typically a Resident is a surgeon in training at some stage along the path toward becoming Board Certified. A Fellow is someone who has completed their residency training, usually is not yet Board Certified but may be in the process of taking those exams, and is doing additional training is a field of special interest to them. Both are young surgeons but the Fellow is generally more experienced and less supervised by the attending surgeon who is doing the training.
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Resident or Fellow
A resident is a doctor training in a specifict field. A fellow is usually someone who has completed the residency but pursues additional training in a subspecialty of that field of training.
