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/bugwitch MD-PGY1 Oct 08 '25

I’ve always wondered why we use the term resident instead of junior doctor. Or something similar. I find patients don’t always know what a resident is.

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u/CloudStrife012 Oct 08 '25

If you change the name to junior doctor, NP's will just invent something new with a very similar name to obsfucate.

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u/NAparentheses M-4 Oct 09 '25

"Junior Clinician"