Residency Database is a joined project of HelMSIC and IFMSA-Spain, being elected as an IFMSA Transnational project at the IFMSA GA -Estonia March Meeting 2003. Since 2003 and up to now, a great work has been done!
Aim
The Residency Database project's aim is to facilitate international medical students and young doctors to reach information concerning the residency system and application procedure to different countries of the world. Furthermore, it provides to the Residency Database site's visitors with the chance to compare the advantages and the disadvantages of the many different countries' residency systems, along with the opportunity for further research in this field.
Executive summary
The whole idea is about the construction of a Residency Database (RDb), where every medical student and young doctor will find information about the residency system, the financial state and the application procedure for a residency position in many different countries. The importance of this project lies to the fact that a continuous growing number of medical scientists from all over the world desire to specialize or sub-specialize in a medical field outside his/her own country and they face a lot of difficulties in finding the proper source of information.The Residency Database project will facilitate these people to have an easy and quick access to the relevant information.
Project's structure
There are two groups of people who work on the realisation of the project:the Project's Participants and the International Coordinating Team.
What is the Project's Participants role?
A Project Participant can be any of you who would like to fill out the Residency Database (RDb) Questionnaire with the information concerning your country. The RDb Questionnaire is the cornerstone of the RDb project and it requires information and references concerning the residency system, the financial state and the application procedure for a residency position in your country. After filling out the RDb Questionnaire and sending it to us, it will be evaluated for its adequacy of the provided information and the stating of references by the International Coordinating Team. Then, the provided information will be uploaded to the Residency Database web-site.
What does the International Coordinating Team do?
- finalize the RDb questionnaire
- gather the completed questionnaires
- evaluate the received data
- promote the project