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resident physician

resident physician

1 4.1
A doctor who lives and works in a hospital while training under senior staff to care for patients
  • noun
  • /ˈrɛzɪdənt fəˈzɪʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : médico residente
  • The resident physician spent the night at the hospital to monitor patients after surgery.
  • Dr. resident physician

I do not consent to a vaginal exam by you or any resident physicians, training doctors, or any medical students.

Examples

  • A resident physician at UCLA pursuing post-graduate training in Family Medicine, who attended graduate school at USC, completed his MD at the Keck School of Medicine concurrent with an MBA at the Marshall School of Business.

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  • I am a resident physician and have already learned the basic concepts of medicine in medical school, but I am trying to figure out how to learn more efficiently what it takes to be an excellent doctor in my field.

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  • As a resident physician, I regularly worked 36 to 38-hour shifts and 100 to 110 hours per week.

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  • "Hello, ma'am," I said, reaching for her hand under her covers, "my name is Dr. Jim, and I will be following your treatment today with Dr. Brad, one of our resident physicians whom I am supervising."

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  • The main character of An Enemy of the People is Dr. Thomas Stockmann (a superb Boyd Gaines), the resident physician of a coastal Norwegian spa town.

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  • As a resident physician, she sees patients daily while training under experienced doctors.

  • During her rotation, the resident physician gained valuable experience in the intensive care unit.

Synonyms

resident
vsresident physician
  • Specialized
220 5.7

A doctor in training who lives and works in a hospital under senior doctors

is focused on specialist training and ongoing patient care under senior staff supervision
houseman
vsresident physician
  • UK
6 8.1

A junior doctor who works in a hospital to learn and get practical experience

is a more established doctor engaged in specialist training while living in hospital
house physician
vsresident physician
  • UK
6.1

A doctor who lives in a hospital and cares for patients under senior doctors' supervision

is a doctor training in a medical specialty rather than a general junior training role
interne
vsresident physician
  • Archaic
8.8

A doctor in training who works in a hospital under a senior doctor

is a later stage training position focused on specialist practice and patient care

How Senior

attending
  • Specialized
12 6.0
resident physician
  • Specialized
1 4.1
intern
  • Specialized
88 4.5

Surface Forms

resident physician singular
resident physicians plural

Morphology

resident + physician

The phrase 'resident physician' is fully compositional: it denotes a physician who is a resident (i.e., a doctor in hospital training or living/working at the hospital). There is no idiomatic or metaphorical shift, and the noun–noun/attributive pattern is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words will be able to infer the meaning.

Etymology

Resident physician comes from the word resident, meaning someone who 'lives' somewhere, and physician, a doctor. In the past, trainee doctors often stayed at the hospital to care for patients at all hours, so resident physicians are doctors who live and work in a hospital while they train under senior staff.