#discussing residency
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edgy willow
What is residency, like some sort of internship ?
I think in France we would just call that médecin interne, but don't quote me on it, I'm not working in this field.
vague cargo
Getting into residency is hella tough
Thank you so much! 💖
vague cargo
What is residency, like some sort of internship ?
Un internat, selon word reference. Et je ne suis pas médecin 😅
I think that’s a similar idea, though. Just specific to medical doctors in training. Merci pour votre aide quand même !
edgy willow
If you say un internat without adding any extra context, it will have a different meaning, be careful about it being usually perceived as a place to sleep (usually for school) rather than something linked to medecine.
Sorry about the assumption though 
casually speaking we have the tendency of calling any doctors in this field médecin (may it be surgeon or psychiatrist, or whatever)
vague cargo
Noted, thank you! I didn’t know of that secondary meaning, but there was context regardless, so I’ll keep it in mind in the future. No worries, to be clear I’m a pharmacist doing a residency, not what someone would normally refer to or think of as a doctor. Would you still use the word « médecin » ?
edgy willow
No in that case we would say pharmacist, because we do have a lot of pharmacies. I think in general, we call médecin people that directly deal with diseases, not sure if I'm clear on that one
Like, any doctor in a hospital will be called médecin, may it be a surgeon, a pediatrician, a general practitioner, psychiatrist. Those that are directly fixing people.
I didn't know pharmacist had a residency as well, they probably do in France too, but I guess it's harder to see through what a pharmacist truly does generally speaking, it's often associated to the medication rather than the healing. But I'm fairly sure, if people were to see pharmacists more often in hospitals, they would call them médecins as well. (I know there is, but usually not in the same buildings as the visitors)