Re: fellowship
InSitu - 01-09-08 10:52

To practice in the US you must go through a formal residency first. Doing the fellowship only will allow you go back to your country to practice when you are done. Anyon please add.

Re: fellowship
radhamesramos - 01-09-08 11:03

InSitu is right, No residency in the U.S, cannot practice medicine in the U.S. But I've met people that has come to the U.S. to do a fellowship after specializing in their home countries, and managed to stay working as attendings in the institution that trained them as a Fellow...these cases are exceptional, but they do exist, that depends on the institution, and you can only work for this institution and dependencies, so you are really tied up.
Also, they do it for fellowships that have a significant lower number of what is needed, so in your case (very competitive, and makes lots of money) that is up the institution, but it is really difficult to get

Re: fellowship
mindswapper - 01-09-08 16:12

Unless u do residency in the US, u wont get a licence in any state and hence u cannot practice.
It doesn't matter if u have a licence in Canada or whatever place on earth.

BUT u can work 'under supervision'; no independent decision-making! it is very rare too.

Re: fellowship
radhamesramos - 01-29-08 09:20

UM/Jacksons do that on certain specialties, like trauma surgery