chief resident
Senior training physician
A chief resident is a physician in the final year of residency training who takes on administrative and leadership responsibilities for a medical department or program.
The chief resident coordinates schedules, supervises junior residents, and serves as liaison between residents and attending physicians.
The position is typically appointed based on clinical skill and leadership ability: She was selected as chief resident in her fourth year of surgery training.
- attendingBeing at an event
- hospitalMedical treatment facility
- wardProtected person; division
- roundsAmmunition or bout divisions
- morning reportEarly workday status update
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- hospital staffdoctor, department head, surgeon, attending physician, physician
- medical jobsdoctor, nurse practitioner, physician, registered nurse, surgeon
- surgerysurgery, surgeon, surgeons, operation, incision
- Medical LeadersCMO, medical director, nursing director, department head, department chair
- medical traineesintern, fellow, medical intern, junior doctor