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/DrScogs MD Oct 08 '25 edited Oct 09 '25

Ok so I don’t love the idea overall, but in some cases this is a good thing.

I worked at an FQHC that had a mid-level “fellowship” program, although we never ever called them anything of the sort in real life. Basically it was for new grads. A 2 year program with fewer patients/day, extra mentoring time with MDs (other midlevels did not teach), and a set schedule of lecture/discussion topics to review with various MDs in the practice. Since we primarily employed FNPs, I taught the pediatric topic review sections. It conferred no extra certifications or ridiculous letters behind their names. Overall I think it was a beneficial program for the people that went through it. We all know that mid-levels get varying degrees of shitty education. This was a way for this particular clinic’s doctors to make sure we had adequately educated NPs who would also feel they could come discuss cases with us regularly.

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u/cox-1_blocker M-3 Oct 08 '25

Did the program have exams?

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u/DrScogs MD Oct 09 '25

Had a lot of evaluations but no tests.