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Does your medical residency have to be at a medical school?

Four (4) year break between medical school and residency?

  • I am from the UK, and after medical school, I am very interested in going to Nursing school. While doing this, I am training for a form of Yoga in India yearly. the study in India, which involves yearly or biyearly trips to India, will take me 10 - 15 years to 'graduate' from. I am very interested in becoming a child psychiatrist in the future. I am hoping to spend the time i'm studying nursing obtaining more work experience along side nurses, while observing and learning about the different clinical cases i will be exposed to under their guidance. I am interested in psychiatry but i am also interested in the rest of medicine, and in my future, I would like to be able to also work in other departments, and grow with the whole of medicine and this would be easier as a nurse than as a doctor. studying nursing will also give me free time to powerfully build up other areas of my life that I got powerfully interested in while at medical school, that I do not want to have to sacrifice (residency and specialisation takes a long time). I would like to build these other facets powerfully so that I can have control over them when I start my residency. help!

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    I don't quite understand why you would want to go to nursing school AFTER medical school. In med school clinicals is where you should learn how to do everything a nurse knows how to do and more. The break between med school and residency will hurt you way more than help. Thats a long time to loose the knowledge base you gained in your clinical years in med school. continuity is important. I would recommend doing everything you want to do in that break before you start med school, that would be more logical to me. Hope this helps!

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Never heard of someone going from Medicine to Nursing. You will have a hard time GETTING a Residency after a 4 year break. If you are not using it, you tend to forget it. It is your call, of course, but my advice would be against a long break between school and post-grad training. Are you sure you want to stay in Medicine as a career? Sounds like you want to take a different road. Think hard about your future. What do you REALLY want to do most?

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LOL What a dreamer!!! You go to medical school, you go directly to intership, OR YOU DON'T GET ONE. That's the way the system works. You want to be a nurse -- you have to go to nursing school FIRST, THEN pre-med, THEN medical school.... But WHY??? Nurses and doctors are on the OPPOSITE sides of the spectrum. They do completely different things, and care about completely different things. And there is a division of labor that favors physicians. They don't have to do ANY of the dirty work, except maybe putting their hands up people's butts! Also, you won't get any support from either side -- the nurses will consider you a traitor to nursing, and the physicians will consider you a "wanna-be".

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