in medical care you have titles such as “Resident” and “Fellow” etc, what do these titles mean and what sort of heiarchy do they possess?

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in medical care you have titles such as “Resident” and “Fellow” etc, what do these titles mean and what sort of heiarchy do they possess?

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Answer 1

Those are terms I’ve seen on USA shows, In UK it’s slightly different:

Med Student – As it says on the tin. Usually 4-6 years of schooling

Foundation Years 1 and 2 (or FY1 and FY2) – This is after you get your medical degree and usually involves ‘rotations’ – working in different departments or spcialities. You get a temporary medical licence at the start of FY1, and a full licence at the end. People at this stage are usually known as ‘Junior Doctors’

After that, you specialise and become a ‘registrar’ of a speciality while you train for it (Min 6 years) then a ‘Consultant’ or You if are a GP speciality Registrar, after 3 years you are then a GP.

There are a few other titles knocking about depending on where someone is and what they do. for example, a Clinical fellow would be in-between Junior Doctor and Registrar – And you are half doing clinical work and half doing research and producing papers.
There can also be ‘Senior’ versions of a lot of the roles too.