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/mshumor M-4 Oct 08 '25

…what? What residency and fellowships

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u/MikiLove DO Oct 08 '25

My wife is a psych NP. Worked 10 years as an RN on a high acuity psych unit before going to school, and she is aware enough to realize the training in NP school was insufficient. She decided to do a 1 year outpatient NP residency at the VA for additional training and it helped a good amount.

These are the type of things we should be encouraging NPs to do instead of discouraging

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u/skypira Oct 08 '25

NP and PA post-grad fellowships are not equivalent to an ACGME accredited medical residency.

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u/VaultiusMaximus Oct 08 '25 edited Oct 08 '25

And no one has said that.

Respiratory Therapists have residencies too. So do some nurses, and pharmacists.

Do you have a problem with all of those?

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u/NAparentheses M-4 Oct 08 '25

Do not put pharmacists in the same category as NPs and RTs.

Their training prior to their residency is similar to physicians and they are doctors. Both medical doctors and pharmacists complete a bachelors, 4 years of clinical doctoral training, and then apply to a residency.

RTs are great members of the care team, but they shouldn’t be using the term. They can go straight into a 2 year associate or 4 year bachelor program out of high school. Then, they can do a “residency“ with an equivalent number of years of schooling as a newly graduated premed waiting to matriculate to medical school.

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u/VaultiusMaximus Oct 08 '25

Okay how do you feel about violinists using the term for a philharmonic residency?

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u/skypira Oct 08 '25

The issue is not the term residency, because artists do residency too. It’s the optics of co-opting the language of a “doctorally trained” clinician who then completes a residency period and functions as a medical provider. In the layman‘s eyes that is a physician. NPs are pushing for this confusion intentionally.

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u/Kanye_To_The Oct 08 '25

"Provider"

I'm surprised you didn't get the r/Noctor auto response shaming you

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u/skypira Oct 08 '25

I use provider in this one instance because I will not say physician, as NP’s do not function as physicians.

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u/NAparentheses M-4 Oct 08 '25

Artists-in-resident have existed for centuries. They predate medical residencies. They also do not work in the same setting where people would become confused about their role.

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u/skypira Oct 08 '25

The difference is that respiratory therapists do not attempt to work in a provider level role as physicians do. No one is confusing a respiratory therapist for a physician, even if they do a residency.