What is the difference between a residency and a fellowship? in Medicine?

Answer 1

A fellowship is done after residency, and it is in a narrower field than the original residency.

Examples:
internal medicine residency - cardiology fellowship
general surgery residency - cardiothoracic surgery fellowship
anesthesia residency - pediatric anesthesia fellowship

Some (crazy) people do more than one residency, and/or more than one fellowship.

Answer 2

Residency is a training program for doctors who would like to specialize in a certain field of Medicine like Pediatrics or Internal Medicine. Doctors who finished residency may undergo fellowship training program as a subspecialty after the residency training program, e.g., Pediatric Pulmonology.

Answer 3

Residency is a stage of postgraduate medical training in North America and leads to eligibility for board certification in a primary care or referral specialty. It is filled by a resident physician who has received a medical degree (M.D. or D.O.) and is composed almost entirely of the care of hospitalized or clinic patients, mostly with direct supervision by more senior physicians. A residency may follow the internship year or include the internship year as the first year of residency.

In the North American system of medical education, a period of medical training following on from residency is generally called a fellowship. This refers to a period of several years during which the physician takes training in a subspecialty, such as cardiology or hematology/oncology. During this time, the physician is known as a fellow. Although their training is more advanced than that of residents, fellows usually continue to treat patients under the supervision of an attending physician

Answer 4

They are the same thing. In Canada when you are going into a specialty of medicine after completing you M.D. it is called a Residency. In the USA it is called a Fellowship.

Answer 5

Residency, is a formal state of being a postgraduate trainee, stepping in the ladder year by year,,,,in short words, you are an slave with no rights, until you graduate as an specialist..(then you can be hired as an Attending Physician, who is a kind of semi.god to you)...
A fellow, is an already graduated specialist, that is being trained into a subspeciality,but in the meantime, he is dedicated full time to that task, and cannot act as attending or independant specialist,,
In few words, a fellow, is an specialist being trained by other specialist in a particular field....

Answer 6

Residency is specialty training. Fellowship is subspecialty training done afterwards.

Answer 7

Fellowship is a qualification. Residency is training.