Fellowship (medicine)A fellowship is the period of medical training, in the United States and Canada, that a physician, dentist, or veterinarian may undertake after completing a specialty training program (residency). During this time (usually more than one year), the physician is known as a fellow. Fellows are capable of acting as an attending physician or a consultant physician in the specialist field in which they were trained, such as internal medicine or pediatrics.
Senior house officerA senior house officer (SHO) is a non-consultant hospital doctor in the Republic of Ireland. SHOs are supervised in their work by consultants and registrars. In training posts these registrars and consultants oversee training and are usually their designated clinical supervisors. The same structure to junior doctor grades also applied previously in the National Health Service in the UK, and informal use of the term persists there.
Résidence (médecine)En médecine, la résidence est le stage post-doctoral que doivent suivre les médecins pour obtenir leur droit de pratique en Amérique du Nord. L’équivalent en France est appelé le Clinicat ou l'Assistanat, l'internat concernant la période de 3 à 6 ans avant la thèse. Une fois les études de médecine pré-doctorales terminées, le médecin obtient le grade de docteur en médecine (M.D.). Les étudiants en médecine de l'Université McGill au Québec obtiennent le diplôme de doctorat en médecine et de maîtrise en chirurgie (M.
Doctor of MedicineDoctor of Medicine (abbreviated M.D., from the Latin Medicinae Doctor) is a medical degree, the meaning of which varies between different jurisdictions. In the United States, and some other countries, the M.D. denotes a professional degree. This generally arose because many in 18th-century medical professions trained in Scotland, which used the M.D. degree nomenclature. In England, however, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery was used and eventually in the 19th century became the standard in Scotland too.
General practitionerIn the medical profession, a general practitioner (GP) or family physician is a physician who treats acute and chronic illnesses and provides preventive care and health education to patients of all ages. GPs' duties are not confined to specific fields of medicine, and they have particular skills in treating people with multiple health issues. They are trained to treat patients to levels of complexity that vary between countries. The term "primary care physician" is more usually used in the US.
Médecine d'urgenceLa médecine d'urgence rassemble les ressources médicales et chirurgicales pour faire face à une urgence, c'est-à-dire la perception d'une situation où la personne sans soins empire rapidement, exposée au risque à bref délai de séquelles irréversibles ou du décès. Lorsque le nombre de victimes est important et/ou que les infrastructures locales sont touchées (routes, hôpitaux...), on parle de médecine de catastrophe.
MédecinUn est un professionnel de la santé titulaire d'un diplôme de docteur en médecine ou, en France d'un diplôme d'État de docteur en médecine. Il soigne selon ses spécialisations les maladies, pathologies et blessures de l'être humain. Il travaille généralement au sein d'une équipe de professionnels de la santé comme la sage-femme, le psychologue, le diététicien, le pharmacien, le physicien médical, l'infirmier ou le chirurgien-dentiste.
