Congress determines how many PAS and NC-SES appointments the president can make. But the president decides how many PA and Schedule C positions will be in his or her administration. Positions in the PAS category include high-ranking cabinet roles and judiciary appointments. PA positions include the president's executive staff. NC-SES jobs are senior management positions -- typically with titles like deputy undersecretary or bureau director.
How Long Does Medical Residency Training Last? Medical residency is a minimum of three years for primary care physicians and some other specialties, up to five years for some surgical specialties. (Some medical specialties require additional years of fellowship training in addition to the three to five years of residency training.)
Residency is a stage of graduate medical training. A resident or house officer is a physician (holding either a M.D. , D.O. , MBBS, MBChB, BMed or D.P.M. degree) who practices medicine usually in a hospital or clinic.The definition of residency varies worldwide by country and structure of the medical industry.he residents collectively are the house staff of a hospital. This term comes from the fact that resident physicians traditionally live the majority of their training in house, i.e., the hospital. Duration of most residencies can range from three years to seven years for a specialized field such as neurosurgery.