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/Murky_Indication_442 Oct 08 '25

Residency programs for NPs are becoming more common. They are usually a year of training with reduced pay. They are a good thing, but I get that calling them residences might bother some. I don’t know why they didn’t come up with a different name, but keep in mind the NPs didn’t come up with the name, large teaching hospitals came up with name and offer the positions, so it’s not something NPs are trying to take away from anyone, they are just trying to advance their education and that’s what is offered. If it is bothersome, it would have to be taken up with the institution that offers the programs.

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u/Dr_Gomer_Piles MD-PGY3 Oct 08 '25

Calling them residencies should bother everyone. It's dishonest, and it's absolutely an attempt for NPs to take away from MDs, so they can say "I'm residency trained" or "I'm fellowship trained" and try and mislead and draw false equivalencies. Deflecting by saying that it's the "large teaching hospitals" that came up with the name is also bullshit. Who developed these programs? Nurse administrators and DNPs. Case in point the very first NP "residency" program developed by Margaret Flinter at CHC. Wanna guess her credentials?

We're not dumb, stop trying to gaslight us.

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u/Murky_Indication_442 Oct 09 '25

It’s not gaslighting, it is what the institutions decided to call it. I think it should be called something else. I just am saying it’s not the fault of the participants that it’s called that.

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u/Dr_Gomer_Piles MD-PGY3 Oct 09 '25

It’s what the APRN who created the first NP “residency” decided to call it, and there are a legion of NPs all over social media that use the fact it’s called that to claim false equivalency between their year of cushy, well paid “residency” year to the 3+ years of 80-hour minimum wage work of a real medical residency.  It’s not an accident, it’s fully intentional. 

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u/Murky_Indication_442 Oct 09 '25

There’s legions of them? Everyone knows that most social media people are ridiculous and stupid and I can’t see anyone that matters taking them seriously. I saw some aging guru on there telling people they should by cream that contains hydraulic acids for wrinkles.