Whats a fellowship?

Question

In medicine?

Answer 1

Fellowship in Medicine is considered as the highest grade of membership. Lower grades are referred to as members (who typically share voting rights with the fellows), or associates (who may or may not, depending on whether "associate" status is a form of full membership).

How fellowship is acquired varies from every organization which could be by any of the folowing:
***A qualifying period in a lower grade.
***Nomination by two existing fellows who know the applicant professionally.
***Evidence of continued formal training post-qualification.
***Evidence of substantial achievement in the profession.

For instance, to have Fellowship of any of the Royal College of Physician's, you have to be a member first which is usually by examinations or could be by qualification. Once elected as a member, you will be eligible for Fellowship.

Some organizations like Royal College of Physicians (UK) and Royal College of Surgeons requires you to be an active member for at least 10 years to be eligible to be eleceted as fellow. Other organizations like College of Accident and Emergency (UK) require you to pass a fellowship examinations (that is after being a member). Once you got eligibility as a Fellow then you have to be elected after your application and once elected you will be awarded being a Fellow and you will have a higher statues in the organization than that of a member.

Taking a Fellowship course which length varies is another way to be a Fellow.

Should you be interested to know further, check out the following links as examples to get the complete picture:
https://www.rcsed.ac.uk/site/342/default.aspx
http://www.emergencymed.org.uk/temp/1994-Regulations-FCEM-2006.doc#_Toc132279980

(Note: There are institutions that when they say fellowship, they mean a sort of affiliation -a post-graduate training usually for experience in a field of a certain specialization.)♥
See this:http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/cardio/fellowship/facultylist.html

Answer 2

Haha, if that's true, I better reconsider shooting for a psychiatric fellowship. I hate being tossed into volcanoes.

Anyway, fellowships in medicine are just periods of extra training doctors do post-residency. Some subspecialties require that extra training!

Answer 3

Further training (sub specialisation) after completing your residency. e.g. CT surgery, cardiology, interventional neuroradiology, neuroanaethesiology, etc

Answer 4

It's a method of curing ringworm, where they take the infected guy to a volcano and toss him into the lava.