Resident doctors

Can resident doctors perform medical procedures w/o senior docs??? I mean no, they can’t.. how in the world can Sid n Ishani be the only two doctors performing all the procedures.

I am watching the show only for Dr Shashank n Dr Juhi but the shirtless flirt Sid and ott ishani are spoiling it for me...they could have been casted for a rom com not for a medical drama.

Yeah, in real life, a senior preceptor or attending physician has to monitor the interaction between the medical student/resident and the patient. I know some med school vloggers in real life, or at least one of them, posted on instagram as how to how they dealt with an uncontrollable patient despite other senior residents' inability to calm the patient and get their medical results. But, the preceptor was present at the time. IDK what is being shown but, again, it's just a fictional show. In real life, an experienced physician needs to be present when medical interns are around.

what's the difference between interns and resident doctors?

An intern is a 1st year resident. A resident is in any year of training. An attending is a doctor who is no longer in training (ie, not a resident or fellow), who supervises residents & interns.

acc to this, Ishani is an intern right. because she is 'miss first year resident'😆

no she can do general surgeries...she is now doing her specialisation...not an intern...she is a Doctor...yes i dont know abt details but one doctor in another forum cleared this thing...

but yeah...she has overconfidence over her skills...but i understand that is her character nature...

bcoz in today's epi she is not appreciated instead she got scloding for this over-confidence and own institution...

she has long way to go...

her char is not poorly written but it is written intentionally like that way...they want ishani to be a very much flawed charater...

and they r succeeding also bcoz no one is ignoring her character...

Isn't Sid Ishaani's senior, like she is under him, his team or something like that ?

Also there was a dialogue of Sid where he says something like I do 6 surgeries in a day.

So if they do show Sid and Ishaani preforming surgeries. Ishaani is performing them with a senior.

Having said that, I have no experience about medical stuff and am not sure if a first year resident can do surgery whether supervised or not.

All am trying to say is if first year residents can do surgery under supervision or help the senior doctor during surgery. There is no problem with Ishaani and Sid doing operations, together.

Sid is a senior resident...so yes sid can perform surgeries on his own ... senior resident is one who completed their specialisation unlike ishani who just jjoined it. Yeah however I wish they established a proper hierarchy as in which department they belong to neuro or gastro or general like that.

No first yr resident can perform surgery on his own on the first day of joining.

They can do minor procedures but they can't do surgery. They r here to learn surgery. Patient's life are not worth d risk of allowing a first yr resident to practice on dem. They can assist but with the permission of attending senior doctor.

In medical education system - an intern is someone who has passed out from the undergraduate medical degree (In India - MBBS). They undergo Compulsory Rotating Residential Internship and are hence known as interns. They are not specialised in any field and are not permanently licensed. They have a provincial license from their respective state for doing internship . Post completion they will awarded degree and permanent license to practice as General Physicians.

When an MBBS graduate goes on to post graduation - they are called residents in their chosen field of specialisation. As most PG courses are 3 years - the residents are also split into three years - 1st, 2nd , 3rd.

No first year, just joined surgery resident will ever be allowed to do a major surgery. That’s a privilege you earn by your final year surgery residency. A general surgery resident will be given chances to perform surgeries like removal of appendix, repair of an abdominal hernia etc. by final year. They are also trained to do emergency surgeries.

Plastic surgery is a super speciality field . A third year surgery resident cannot perform that. He/she has to sit another exam to get into a Plastic Surgery course after completing general surgery course and study for another three years (some students get into 6 year programs directly as well). So Dr Sid performing plastic surgery as third year resident means we have to assume he is in the super speciality stream now.

Since this is ITV, I don’t expect any of this to be shown. Medical shows on ITV are very vague and misleading where the subject of modern medicine is concerned.

In India

Interns are the ones who have completed MBBS undergraduate course and now have to do one years of internship in different departments.(internship is compulsory and is included in MBBS course)

Junior Residents are the ones who have cleared Post grateduate entrance exams after MBBS and have joined the MD/MS course in any hospital/college . They are of specific department. Here Dr Ishani is most probably a surgical resident who has joined General Surgery as a department.

Senior residents are the one who have completed their post graduate degree and working in any hospital.

Being Dr Ishani a junior residents she should do the procedures under the supervision of her senior because no matter how intelligent and studious she is she hasn't done surgeries in the past and doing surgeries need lots of skill and practice which comes during residency where she will see lots of cases and will operate on those cases for first time . Trust me giving a perfect incision and suturing require lots of practice and during undergraduate period no students are exposed to so many surgeries for them to be skilled and confident enough to do surgeries independently.

I would be more happy if Dr Ishani is shown more enthusiastic in learning surgeries than being overconfident and doing surgeries independently which is totally unrealistic.

I’m a 3rd year resident myself. And believe me my first day of residency was way different than what Dr Ishani had. None of my colleagues or my seniors performed any kind of surgery on our first day. The scenes shown here are so unrealistic. No first year resident is allowed to perform any kind major surgeries on his/her own. Even today being a 3rd year resident I have to perform any major surgery under the supervision of a senior. I don’t expect these shows to show this kind of reality but atleast they should try not to make mockery out of us.