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This is also part of the system for doctors in the US, it's called residency. During residency rotations the residents (who have already graduated medical school) go through structured clinical training with patients within each medical specialty, supervised by an attending physician.

> go through structured clinical training with patients within each medical specialty, supervised by an attending physician

No, residency is within a specific specialty only.

It’s more like the clinical rotations that occur in year 3 and 4 of medical school in the U.S.

In Austria as well, it's called "Turnus".

I think this is done in the USA too.

I've been at U.S. companies that paid lip service to this flexible sort of coverage, but once you are actually useful in the dept you're in, your boss never wants to let you go because upper management didn't build in the redundancy to the headcount to ensure you'd be effectively replaced...

I meant in hospitals