Scuola di specializzazione in medicina (2025)

AlabamaBoy said:

How about "Graduate School for Occupational Medicine" ?

Click to expand...

I'm afraid this is not 100% correct, Alabamboy.
As a matter of fact, a specializzando (in medicina) is a post-graduate student (so a doctor, a surgeon), who is actually working at a hospital and following specific classes (within a 5-6 year course, with respect to the field of specialization) that could make her "specialized" in some specialty.
I also need a proper way to translate this term (except the kind of specialization, that in this very case is occupational medicine). Maybe internship??

EDIT: this thread could be useful: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=660970
A specializzando is correctly (imho) translated as "resident". Thus, how could a "scuola di specializzazione" be denoted?

fcabitza said:

I'm afraid this is not 100% correct, Alabamboy.
As a matter of fact, a specializzando (in medicina) is a post-graduate student (so a doctor, a surgeon), who is actually working at a hospital and following specific classes (within a 5-6 year course, with respect to the field of specialization) that could make her "specialized" in some specialty.
I also need a proper way to translate this term (except the kind of specialization, that in this very case is occupational medicine). Maybe internship??

EDIT: this thread could be useful: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=660970
A specializzando is correctly (imho) translated as "resident". Thus, how could a "scuola di specializzazione" be denoted?

Click to expand...

Can you give us your exact context/sentence, fcabitza? As has already been made clear, there's no direct equivalent in English, so we would need to see if there's some other way of translating the phrase based on a specific context.

NB Alabama Boy isn't entirely wrong - "Graduate School" refers to post-graduates who have already taken first degrees.

fcabitza said:

A specializzando is correctly (imho) translated as "resident". Thus, how could a "scuola di specializzazione" be denoted?

Click to expand...

After all of your detailed explanation (thank you!) it still sounds like a graduate school with a (hospital) residency requirement. As Elfa pointed out, "graduate school" really means "post-graduate school." (A school to earn your first degree is properly called an "undergraduate school.") It is one of those illogical things about English usage. IMHO it is the graduate school, not the residency, that is most important, so I think "resident" would not be the best translation.

Ciao a tutti,

@ fcabitza: The educational system obviously varies among countries and your post # 3 accurately describes the American postgraduate medical education. In the case of occupational medicine, US physicians complete a postgraduate* medical training program in this specialty. This usually requires the completion of at least a postgraduate (one year) internship.

*postgraduate in this context refers to a medical doctor, i.e. an individual who is a graduate from a medical school and who has obtained an M.D (or D.O.) degree.

Uno specializzando (in medicina) is a resident in English (in AE). (In addition you may see PGY-1, PGY-2 etc. for post graduate year 1, 2 etc.)

"Scuola di specializzazione" (for physicians) would correspond to a residency program (in the US)

@bongobelga: ‘’Scuola di Specializzazione in Medicina del Lavoro’ …as is, i.e. out of context...is a residency (training) program in occupational medicine (as described above).

“I’ve been accepted into the occupational medicine residency program at XXX University”

“After medical school I want to specialize in occupational medicine”

AlabamaBoy said:

IMHO it is the graduate school, not the residency, that is most important, so I think "resident" would not be the best translation.

Click to expand...

@Alabamaboy: Please forgive me if I’m misunderstanding what you’re saying…but I don’t see how we can assign any order of importance here: college, medical school, residency, possibly fellowship, these are the required steps to become board certified as a specialist in a given field of medicine, at least in this country.

Bic.

AlabamaBoy said:

My apologies.

Click to expand...

No apologies necessary!!
Bic