Originally Posted by
Melanie
A resident physician is a licensed physician with a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree, at least in the United States. :) However, many resident physicians and young attending physicians often have their patients ask them, "Are you a real doctor?" :) Or worse, "old school" male physicians will assume you're the nurse if you're female and will often ignore you and talk directly to the oldest member on your medical team (who sometimes happens to be the grandfatherly-looking respiratory therapist) while you are left standing alone in the background trying to eavesdrop on the conversation about what is going on with the patient you are assuming care for. :D
Han Solo, if you are an anaesthetics trainee, does that mean you are the equivalent of the United States' version of an anesthesiology resident? How does the Australian medical physician training program work? Do you go directly from high school to medical school and then residency? :confused: