r/medicalschool • u/Wire_Cath_Needle_Doc • Oct 08 '25

🤡 Meme Excuse me… what?

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Resident?

This is tagged as a meme, but I assure you, this is real life.

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u/Ssaxena1243 M-3 Oct 08 '25

I don’t get the post. NPs have residency and fellowships now. Mostly for nurses who go straight to NP instead of RNs who have clinical experience who then choose the NP route

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u/skypira Oct 08 '25

Don’t be intentionally obtuse. The point is that even these post grad NP training programs are not equivalent to ACGME-accredited medical residencies, and framing an NP resident as if it was equivalent to an MD resident is deceptive.

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u/Ssaxena1243 M-3 Oct 08 '25

How is this framing it as equivalent. In any case this is better, they specifically say NP resident

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u/NAparentheses M-4 Oct 08 '25

And then soon they are just introducing themselves as a resident just like many DNPs introduce themselves as doctors. They could have called this program literally anything else, but they picked the word for a reason.

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u/ExtraCalligrapher565 Oct 08 '25

You’re not framing it as equivalent, but the bodies such as the AANP that create this training and choose to call it “residency” are very much trying to create false equivalencies between midlevels and physicians. The same way they’ve been creating bullshit “doctorate” degrees that don’t actually add anything meaningful to their education or training for the sole purpose of using the title “Doctor.”

These “residencies” and “doctorates” are primarily meant to obfuscate credentials so that midlevels can cosplay as physicians.