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Medical Education in the United States
Plan:
Medical school
Internship
Residency
TEST
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Medical Education in the United States

1. Independent Work

Theme: My working day
Done by: Embergenov N. S
Checked by: Kosbatyrova N. B
Faculty: General Medicine
Group: 104-B
Almaty 2015

2. Medical Education in the United States

3. Plan:

1. Medical school
2. Internship
3. Residency

4. Medical school

A Medical school in the United States is a four-year graduate institution.
It’s purpose is educating physicians in the field of medicine. Such schools provide a
major part of the medical education in the United States. Graduates receive either
a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) or a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) degree.
Admissions criteria are grade point averages, Test scores, letters of recommendation,
and interviews.
The first two years students have basic science courses, such as anatomy,
biochemistry,histology,microbiology, pharmacology, physiology, cardiology, pulmonol
ogy, gastroenterology, endocrinology, psychiatry, neurology, etc. The third and fourth
years consist of clinical rotations, where students attend hospitals and clinics.

5. Internship

Medical intern is a physician in training who has completed medical
school and has a medical degree, but does not yet have a full license to
practice medicine unsupervised.
During the last year of graduate medical education, students apply for
Internship in their chosen field of specialization. Vary in competitiveness depending
upon the desirability of the specialty, prestige of the program, and the number of
applicants relative to the number of available positions.
Some residency training programs, such as in neurology and ophthalmology,
do not include an internship year and begin after completion of an internship or
transitional year.

6. Residency

is a stage of graduate medical training. A resident or house
officer is a physician, who practices medicine usually in a hospital or clinic.
A
physician
may
choose
a
residency
in anesthesiology, ophthalmology, dermatology, emergency medicine, family
medicine,
internal
medicine,
neurology,
obstetrics
and
gynecology,
otolaryngology,
pathology,
pediatrics,
plastic
and
reconstructive
surgery, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, radiology, radiation oncology,
Neurology, neurosurgery, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, surgery, or other specialties.

7. TEST

1. How many years of studying in a Medical school in the
USA?
a. 4 b. 5 c. 6
2. Which training program is not included in Internship?
a. gynecology b. surgery c. neurology
3. In which courses students attend hospitals and clinics?
a. first and second b. third and fourth c. fives and sixth
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