surgical resident
Hospital doctor trainee
A surgical resident is a physician who has completed medical school and is undergoing specialized training in surgery, typically lasting five to seven years.
Residents work in hospitals under supervision, progressing from basic procedures to complex operations as they advance.
The term reflects their status as doctors who essentially live at the hospital during training: The surgical resident had been on call for thirty-six hours.
- internSupervised workplace learner
- attendingBeing at an event
- fellowMan or companion
- scrubsMedical staff uniform
- pagerPortable alert receiver
call · rounds · sutures · suture kit · OR · scalpel · exhausted · running on fumes · overnight · trauma · teaching hospital · match · match day · rotation · sleep-deprived · white coat · consult · clerkship
- traineestrainee, apprentice, intern, novice, recruit
- medical traineesintern, fellow, medical intern, junior doctor
- OR personnelscrub nurse, scrub tech, anesthesiologist, first assistant, neurosurgeon
surgical residentattending physician
Senior doctor supervising care
medical student · chief of surgery · department chair · senior partner · emeritus professor
surgical residentpatient
Able to wait calmly
surgical patient · hospital administrator · layperson · nurse
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