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Levels of seniority in Medicine

  • 09-03-2014 11:50PM
    #1
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    I've tried to find a Medicine forum with no success.

    I'm curious to know what the various stages or job titles of seniority are for doctors?

    I know they range from interns to surgeons, with a registrar and an SHO being somewhere in between, but I'm just wondering what the whole hierarchy is.

    Also, does anyone know what it means to be getting a 'fellowship'?


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  • #2
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    sopretty wrote: »

    Also, does anyone know what it means to be getting a 'fellowship'?
    a period of medical training after a residency


  • #3
    BNMC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭BNMC


    Have you tried the mustard forum?


  • #4
    thegreatgonzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,623 ✭✭✭thegreatgonzo


    sopretty wrote: »
    Hi

    I've tried to find a Medicine forum with no success.

    I'm curious to know what the various stages or job titles of seniority are for doctors?

    I know they range from interns to surgeons, with a registrar and an SHO being somewhere in between, but I'm just wondering what the whole hierarchy is.

    Also, does anyone know what it means to be getting a 'fellowship'?


    Did you try the health sciences forum?


  • #5
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    thegreatgonzo wrote: »
    Did you try the health sciences forum?

    No, I was looking under M's in the various groups. Found a Biology forum alright, but figured it wasn't really the correct forum either.

    I wonder can the mods move the thread?

    As for the pair of geniuses before you......... :D


  • #6
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    sopretty wrote: »

    Also, does anyone know what it means to be getting a 'fellowship'?

    Something to do with Mordor....


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  • #7
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    Bejaysis boys, yis have me fierce confused hah!


  • #8
    lilblackdress
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭lilblackdress


    Basically they start as an intern for a year, an senior house officer for 2 years, a reg, a special reg and then consultant. Everyone rotates around different areas on schemes and they are either medical OR surgical. Not every doctor becomes a surgeon.... thats basically it!


  • #9
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    What about Clinical Director?


  • #10
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    lilblackdress wrote: »
    Basically they start as an intern for a year, an senior house officer for 2 years, a reg, a special reg and then consultant. Everyone rotates around different areas on schemes and they are either medical OR surgical. Not every doctor becomes a surgeon.... thats basically it!

    Thanks very much for that information.
    Lol, I know the difference between medical and surgical teams, in particular after having said two teams argue as to whether I was a medical or surgical case on one occasion haha! (In reality I was probably more of a psychiatric case, truth be told lol).
    What about this fellowship thing then? What is that?


  • #11
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    When you speak about rotation, are you talking about while studying medicine? Or are you telling me, that my gynae consultant one day could be by oncology consultant another day? :eek:


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  • #12
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    I take it that nobody actually knows then?


  • #13
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    sopretty wrote: »
    I take it that nobody actually knows then?

    A fellowship is a period of medical training after a residency.


  • #14
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Lol, you said "period".. eeeewww


  • #15
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    WikiHow wrote: »
    A fellowship is a period of medical training after a residency.

    Thanks. Now what is a residency? lol.


  • #16
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    sopretty wrote: »
    Thanks. Now what is a residency? lol.

    Lol too, are you pursuing a career in medicine or you just curious, we need clear consise information to help you.


  • #17
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    Pure and utter nosiness. Someone I know is 'doing his fellowship', so I want to know how good or bad that is!


  • #18
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    sopretty wrote: »
    Pure and utter nosiness. Someone I know is 'doing his fellowship', so I want to know how good or bad that is!

    It is good, that person has been working hard to educate themself and is being rewarded, are you jealous?


  • #19
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    It's hardly classified information!


  • #20
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    WikiHow wrote: »
    It is good, that person has been working hard to educate themself and is being rewarded, are you jealous?

    No, I'm just wondering how senior they are!! Which nobody seems capable of answering!


  • #21
    JonEBGud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭JonEBGud


    James Reilly is the man to ask.


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  • #22
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    sopretty wrote: »
    No, I'm just wondering how senior they are!! Which nobody seems capable of answering!

    What stage is this person at the moment? where has this person studied?
    What degrees have they?


  • #23
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    WikiHow wrote: »
    What stage is this person at the moment? where has this person studied?
    What degrees have they?

    If I was to post this information, it might narrow down things a wee bit too much on the interwebz, as far as to make him easily identifiable possibly.


  • #24
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    sopretty wrote: »
    If I was to post this information, it might narrow down things a wee bit too much on the interwebz, as far as to make him easily identifiable possibly.

    I am not asking you to name this person, give his address, pps number, facebook account.


  • #25
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    Look, it's no skin off my nose if this is some sort of closely guarded secret within medical circles. I honestly am just curious as this person would be very modest about their achievements etc. and I'm just curious.


  • #26
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    WikiHow wrote: »
    I am not asking you to name this person, give his address, pps number, facebook account.

    If I gave you his uni, where he worked, his speciality, and where he currently works, it would fairly narrow it down!


  • #27
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    sopretty wrote: »
    If I gave you his uni, where he worked, his speciality, and where he currently works, it would fairly narrow it down!

    We dont need to know him to know his status.


  • #28
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    WikiHow wrote: »
    We dont need to know him to know his status.

    Well I know him and yis still can't seem to figure out his status.

    Look, I give up.

    It's a meestery.......


  • #29
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Did you meet on a dating site?

    A fellowship is that last of the training for a sub-specialty.
    This is when they can swap their 1996 Astra for a 2006 Volvo.


  • #30
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    biko wrote: »
    Did you meet on a dating site?

    A fellowship is that last of the training for a sub-specialty.
    This is when they can swap their 1996 Astra for a 2006 Volvo.

    Aye - he's going to pay for my flight to Florida once he gets his fellowship ;)


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  • #31
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    sopretty wrote: »
    Well I know him and yis still can't seem to figure out his status.

    Look, I give up.

    It's a meestery.......

    You know him and dont know yet you wont give us vital information and expect us to know?


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