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Before we launch into the Giant Chart Of How Long It Will Take You To Become A Doctor, learn some terms:

Categorical: a residency spot that offers full residency training.

Preliminary: a residency spot that offers 1-2 years of training required before progressing to a different program (usually a sub-specialty). Prelim spots are usually in Internal Medicine or General Surgery.

Advanced: Advanced spots are those that residents progress to after a prelim year. Med students usually apply for these programs along with preliminary year programs during their 4th year of med school. These include: Urology, Ophtho, Derm, Radiology, Rad/Onc, PM&R, Neuro, Psych, and Anesthesia 

Residency: 3-7 years of training after medical school in a particular medical or surgical specialty. 

Fellowship: Further years of training after residency in a more sub-specialized area under a doctor’s original specialty. Some fellowships are fluid and can be pursued after many different types of residencies. Other fellowships are rigid and require completion of residency in a specific specialty. 

Key to below chart: 

Left column = residency program (categorical ones first, then advanced)

Right column = fellowships that can be pursued after the residency on the left. 

Parentheses = # of years of training required. In the case of 1+, the 1 represents a prelim year in internal medicine or general surgery before an advanced residency. Programs without a 1+ are categorical programs. Programs with a range of years include those that may require a research year or those with variable lengths of training.

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When King Conrad III defeated the Duke of Welf (in the year 1140) and placed Weinsberg under siege, the wives of the besieged castle negotiated a surrender which granted them the right to leave with whatever they could carry on their shoulders. The king allowed them that much. Leaving everything else aside, each woman took her own husband on her shoulders and carried him out. When the king’s people saw what was happening, many of them said that that was not what had been meant and wanted to put a stop to it. But the king laughed and accepted the women’s clever trick. “A king” he said, “should always stand by his word.”

FUCKING

TELL PEOPLE

THAT THEY’RE NOT TRYING

BECAUSE HOW THE FUCK WOULD YOU KNOW IF THEY’RE TRYING OR NOT