What is Residency (medicine)?
'''Residency''' is a level of medical training. A '''resident physician''' or '''resident''' (called '''senior house officer''' or '''registrar''' in the [[United Kingdom]], depending on the level of training) is a person who has gotten a medical degree and who practices medicine under supervision of other physicians, usually in a [[hospital]]. In the [[United States]], doctors must complete residency before they can practice medicine without supervision. Residency programs train doctors to work in a specific [[medical_specialty|specialty]], or field within medicine. For example, there are different residency programs for medicine, [[surgery]], and [[psychiatry]]. In the US, the length of a residency program is different based on specialty. Residency in specialties like family medicine and psychiatry is usually three years long, but a residency program in [[neurosurgery]] (brain surgery) may be 7 years long. {{med-stub}} [[Category:Medical education|Residency]]