Residence (medicine)

In Medicine, the residence is the post-doctoral training course which the future doctors must obligatorily follow to obtain their right of practice in North America. The European equivalent is sometimes called résidanat or, since 2004 in France, the boarding school.

Once the finished pre-doctoral studies of medicine, the future doctor obtains the rank of Doctor of medicine (M.D.). He must supplement a residence in medicine thereafter and is then called doctor-resident. Theresident one can practice medicine but only under direct or indirect supervision of a doctor duly received by the professional order of the country or the state where it practices.

Whereas the pre-doctoral studies aim at making known to the future doctors general and theoretical of medicine, the residence offers a thorough hands-on training in a particular branch of medicine, that is to say in general medicine (family medicine) or in specialized medicine (surgery, pediatry, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics, etc) Depend on the type of residence, this one can last from two to seven years.