In medicine, residency is of great importance. What it is? What features does it have? Why was it created and how does it work? What is the difference between internship and residency in medical practice? What matters more? All this will be considered throughout the article.
Residency
What it is? And when was it created? Clinical residency is called one of the highest forms of improving the professional qualities of medical specialists. It is based on
individual training to help deepen existing knowledge, improve your skills, master advanced medical technologies, and solve the problems of staffing the healthcare system. Medical residency as a form of training highly qualified doctors arose on the territory of the countries of the former USSR in the late 20s of the last century. The first legislative provision was introduced in February 1938. But it has been revised more than once (although key issues, such as the base, length of service requirements, duration of preparation, financial support) have not changed.
Where and how does the training take place?
Preparation takes place at the clinical departments of universities. Training can be conducted in full-time and part-time form, but the second option, as a rule, can use an already established doctor. Residency in this case may also not be needed in all specialties. The training spectrum is determined by the promising and existing needs of the health system. Important stimulating conditions are the opening of large specialized scientific and practical centers, the improvement of the material and technical base and the growing demand for specialists in a certain direction, which affects wages and premium bonuses.
Training
We continue to understand what residency is. What it is, you can already understand. But how is the preparation going? In addition to the individual approach, take into account the level of professional training, work experience in the specialty and the conditions in which the professional activity was carried out. All this cannot but affect learning. Therefore, for each doctor an individual plan is developed and approved. The most qualified personnel from the existing faculty are involved in the training of specialists.
Educational plans
Although they are developed individually for each specialist, they nevertheless take into account typical programs. For maximum efficiency, the entire cathedral team of the direction is connected to the work. Regarding the load, we can say that it includes work in the diagnostic departments, development of practical skills, supervision of patients, participation in operations (this is important if residency in surgery) and seminars. It is also often possible to find that 25% of the training time is used to train specialists in related disciplines. But this is used only to better fulfill the tasks assigned to the specialist.
Certificate of completion
To confirm the availability of knowledge and undergo appropriate training, a graduate is issued a state diploma. It indicates that a person was educated. True, initially people are almost never given the opportunity to conduct independent activities. This is done in the interests of the patient. This is necessary to prevent a situation where human life will be in the hands of an amateur who cannot save her. Initially, a person is engaged under the guidance of an experienced curator. He is also assisted by (albeit insignificant) the staff of the institution.
Difference in medical preparation
Residency is often confused with an internship. One can only imagine how physicians themselves are already tired of this. Therefore, let's deal with this and find out how the internship differs from residency. To do this, get acquainted with all the necessary terminological base. So, internship is called the initial postgraduate training of graduates of medical schools, which is aimed at ensuring that a specialist can carry out medical activities to provide qualified medical care. A similar wording to the one at the beginning of the article. But only if you understand and get into the documentation for this, you can find out that the residency provides for the provision of knowledge that is needed to provide specialized medical care! Therefore, it takes longer - 2 years against one at the internship. At the same time, the preparation process includes the supervision of patients, the maintenance of
medical documentation (carried out under the supervision of a supervisor), on-duty hours, lectures, seminars (up to 120 hours a year). It is necessary to carry out diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and so on. That is, most of the time a person carries out practical activities. And be sure to control his mentor. Although different types of training are oriented towards the fulfillment of a common goal, different tasks are set for them. So, a resident doctor must be able to work independently in health care facilities. Therefore, attention to their preparation is so important.
What happens if we are interested in residency?
Dentistry, surgery or something else - no matter what the goal is. Let's look at how the learning process takes place. It is carried out with a separation from medical practice. It can be carried out on a contract basis or at the expense of the budget. Typically, the period of specialist training is two years. But if a person studies on a contract basis, then this period can be doubled. For clinical residency, you must have a practice of at least three years (or graduate from an internship and have a recommendation from the academic council for training). Then an interview with the members of the commission and passing exams are held. Training is carried out at the clinical bases of the university departments, in which the person entered. For the entire period of preparation, the resident receives a leader, which can only be a professor or associate professor. If a person has successfully completed training and has experience in research work, then the Academic Council may issue a recommendation for
admission to graduate school. If you want to study residency, then you need to know in advance about all the details and the time for submitting documents. You need to focus on the end of spring (recommended) or the beginning of summer. In addition to the usual package of files, it will be necessary to provide a diploma of higher education in one specialty, an
extract from the work book, a list of scientific works,
rationalization proposals and inventions.
Conclusion
So we figured out what the residency is, what it is, found out the differences between her and graduate school, and also figured out how the admission and the educational process occur. This step is important for every person who wants to study their specialty well and become a skilled doctor. It is no secret, after all, that medical areas are complex and at the same time important for society. Alas, now it cannot be said that the work of doctors has been evaluated as we would like. Similar words can be attributed to many specialties, such as teacher, fireman and several others. But it is possible to change the current state of affairs only by working on improving ourselves as a person and in society as a whole. Although if we take such areas as surgery and dentistry, it’s not a problem to make a valuable employee (that is, a professional with golden hands) earning here.