Education around the world; Americas

摘要

@@Medical education in the United States begins after 12 years of high school and 4 years of college. Following four years of medical school, which results in the MD degree and three years of internal medicine residency physicians become eligible for specialty training, a fellowship in gastroenterology. Physicians who are board certified in internal medicine learn basic endoscopy during their three years of gastroenterology training and then become eligible to take board examinations in gastroenterology. To become an endosonographer most physicians who are board certified or eligible in gastroenterology obtain EUS training during an additional year of apprenticed training generally at an academic University hospital where such training is available.