Comment by taeric
3 months ago
My understanding is that this is a distinction that doesn't make a difference? Without a residency, can you become a doctor?
3 months ago
My understanding is that this is a distinction that doesn't make a difference? Without a residency, can you become a doctor?
Yes, because you have to be (or be about to be and in time to start) a doctor in order to be apply for residency.
Resident doctors are doctors, exactly as junior SWEs are software engineers.
(UK doctors have for some reason long objected to 'junior' and recently become 'resident doctors' over exactly this. All the more confusing - throughout and still there's been 'Senior House Officers', because 'house' used to be what it was called, like US residency, doing house, there were junior and senior house officers, so why not just revert to that? Who knows, but now they're all resident doctors - and some of which are senior house officers - until they're registrars/consultants, and they're happier with that than junior doctors.)
That's mostly correct, but there are a few students who enroll in medical school with no intention of becoming practicing physicians. They want to go into some other career like research or technology or hospital administration.