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The Surgical Council on Resident Education (SCORE®) is the national curriculum for general surgery and its associated subspecialties, housed within the American Board of Surgery. It was originally founded as a nonprofit consortium in 2004 by seven organizations involved in U.S. surgical education.
Pediatric surgery is a subspecialty of general surgery. Pediatric surgeons do surgery on patients under age 18. Pediatric surgery is 5–7 years of residency and a 2-3 year fellowship.
Dental specialties, such as orthodontics, require 2–4 years, while oral and maxillofacial surgery requires 4–6 years. Some specialty programs require that applicants have completed at least a one-year GPR (General practice residency), while other programs require applicants to have some private practice experience as a general dentist.
The first year of residency training is known as "Postgraduate Year 1" (PGY1). [citation needed] CMGs can apply to many post-graduate medical training programs including family medicine, emergency medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, general surgery, obstetrics-gynecology, neurology, and psychiatry, amongst others. [citation needed]
The American Board of Surgery was officially organized on January 9, 1937. The formation of the ABS was the result of a committee formed a year earlier by the American Surgical Association with representatives from the American College of Surgeons, American Medical Association and the Southern, Western, Pacific Coast and New England Surgical Associations.
Oral and maxillofacial surgery requires an extensive 4-6 year surgical residency training covering the U.S. specialty's scope of practice: surgery of the oral cavity, dental implant surgery, dentoalveolar surgery, surgery of the temporomandibular joint, general surgery, reconstructive surgery of the face, head and neck, mouth, and jaws, facial ...
Training in the U.S. involves the four years of the undergraduate education, four years of medical school, five years of general surgery residency, followed by a two-year fellowship in transplant surgery. [1]
Medical resident work hours refers to the (often lengthy) shifts worked by medical interns and residents during their medical residency. As per the rules of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in the United States of America, residents are allowed to work a maximum of 80 hours a week averaged over a 4-week period.