Talk:Fellow

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Since fellowship redirects here, anyone care to take a stab at adding a definition of fellowship that describes subspecialty training after a residency program in medicine in the United States? Ksheka 22:47, May 9, 2005 (UTC)

I have revised the statement In the USA, a period of medical training following on from residency is sometimes called fellowship to reflect the fact that this is standard, perhaps universal, usage - to my my knowledge, there is no "sometimes" about it. Post-residency physician training in North America is nearly always called a fellowship, and the physician is called a fellow. Thus, Dr. X finishes his medical residency (that is, his residency in internal medicine) and starts a fellowship in cardiology, at which point he is known as a cardiology fellow. In 20+ years of working in academic medicine, I've never heard any other terminology for this type of training. The article now reflects that fact and also adds a brief description of what a fellowship means in this context. The description has a bias toward medical/pediatric subspecialities because that's where my experience lies. If there are important details relevant to surgical subspecialties that have been omitted, please feel free to edit. (Wouldn't want to offend the surgeons!) Essex999968.83.140.156 05:03, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

I have done a major rewrite on this, with more detail about the Oxbridge use of the term. Since this is based on my experience of UK acadmia, it would be useful if an American could check it out and edit to make any differences between the use of the title in the two systems clear. Jonathan 01:27, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

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The following was placed into the article by 24.136.35.153. It does not belong there.

Here is something I cut and pasted from an email from a friend of mine, recently named a fellow at Cambridge University. "All fellows are entitled to certain privileges within their College, such as free meals at High Table and the right to a rent-free room in College." From Wikipedia. My friend's reply to this: "Yeah! I wish! The free meals were explained to me, and that's fine. Sitting around with other nerds over there. But there asking for quite a rent for a one bedroom in Clare Hall (that's the College with which I would be associated). So, Wikipedia better do a little more research on this, right?"

Bperry7 00:18, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Split?

Should this article be split and disambiguated? Legis 15:43, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

I think so. For example, being able to link to "Fellow" as a specific term in the professional society sense would be useful from many existing articles.Edurant 22:57, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

I thought so too even before reading this comment. Andries 10:34, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree. Cmcnicoll 22:20, 9 June 2007 (UTC)