Graduated residents are not "students right out of school". They are physicians who completed 20,000 plus hours of rigorus training after medical school, passed several days-long boards, and several 1000 hours of training during 4 years of medical school post a 4 year bachelor degree. It is not accurate to call them "students" or "right out of school." Medical students are not given independent practice despite their 4 rigorous years and several 1000 hours of training. This journal sadly recently wrote in support of NP "full practice authority" when their training to diagnose and prescribe is a mere five hundred hours over 2 years during which NP students have enough free time to hold a job and earn money. Yet you call graduate residents "students right out of school".
Graduated residents are not "students right out of school". They are physicians who completed 20,000 plus hours of rigorus training after medical school, passed several days-long boards, and several 1000 hours of training during 4 years of medical school post a 4 year bachelor degree. It is not accurate to call them "students" or "right out of school." Medical students are not given independent practice despite their 4 rigorous years and several 1000 hours of training. This journal sadly recently wrote in support of NP "full practice authority" when their training to diagnose and prescribe is a mere five hundred hours over 2 years during which NP students have enough free time to hold a job and earn money. Yet you call graduate residents "students right out of school".