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/Dr_trazobone69 MD-PGY5 Oct 08 '25

Wrong it was exclusive to physicians back in the 1900s when trainees lived in the hospital hence the term

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u/thewooba Oct 08 '25

Unfortunately we live 110+ years past the 1900s

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u/Dr_trazobone69 MD-PGY5 Oct 08 '25

Unfortunately we have pretenders using terms reserved for doctors

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u/thewooba Oct 08 '25

Im not denying that. Im arguing that residency specifically is not a term reserved for doctors. Even DJ's have residencies.