What's the difference between a resident, an attending physician and a chief physician?

Please be sure to understand that the title of a hospital doctor does not represent his administrative position.

Almost all doctors in the hospital have to go through professional title evaluation. A doctor will start as a resident, and with the improvement of his level, he will transition to an attending physician, a deputy chief physician and a chief physician. (Regardless of academic qualifications, all titles need strict evaluation and screening, and doctors may reach the title of chief physician faster)

The title of a doctor represents the professional level of a doctor. For example, after five years of training, residents can practice medicine as attending doctors by passing the attending doctor examination. There is no need to write many papers at this stage, as long as he meets the national evaluation conditions.

The title of deputy chief physician is very important. Deputy chief physician, this business support represents that a doctor has basically entered a relatively mature stage. If internal and external surgeons can be promoted to deputy chief physician smoothly, they can be independent. But the title of deputy chief physician will not be particularly simple. A mature attending physician needs five years' experience to obtain the qualification of deputy chief physician. Moreover, to pass the national examination, he needs scientific research achievements and national papers. Some large hospitals, such as provincial hospitals, also need experience in supporting the frontier, agriculture and Tibet. Moreover, many large hospitals also require high-end SCI papers, and the impact factors must meet high standards. Therefore, there is a joke in our medical field that Deputy Chief Physician Jin wants to peel a layer of skin.

Because no matter for internal surgeons, only when they are promoted to deputy chief physician can they have the qualification of expert outpatient service in general hospitals, especially for surgeons, after they are promoted to deputy chief physician, they can independently carry out some operations above grade 3, so many people pay special attention to being promoted to the level of deputy chief physician, including Dr. Xie himself.

The title of chief physician is relatively high, but the pressure on doctors is not so great. Although the title of chief physician is more demanding and may be more difficult to pass, many doctors are not particularly demanding of the chief physician. Why? Because it has reached the title of deputy chief physician, it is less in a hospital. Many surgeons can carry out their own operations independently with this title, and many physicians can also walk out of the clinic independently and do what they want.

The chief physician will definitely need to enter, but because in non-teaching hospitals, the chief physician is generally the highest title that doctors can get. In the words of our circle, everyone thinks it's ok: crops are not planted every year, but the pressure is not that great.

I believe everyone should understand that when a doctor has reached the title level of deputy chief physician or chief physician in the hospital title system, many patients have begun to call these doctors "directors" and "directors".

Because some patients will deliberately observe the doctor's name card when contacting the doctor in the outpatient department, because the name card shows that the doctor's title is chief physician or deputy chief physician, some patients will mistakenly think that the deputy chief physician is the deputy director of the department and the chief physician is the director of the department.

However, we need to understand that this director is not another director.

Director: The director of a department should not only represent the level of business ability of a department, but also represent the level of management ability of a department. He not only undertakes some difficult operations and patient rounds and supervision, but also manages all doctors and nurses in the whole department.

The director of the department is not necessarily the chief physician. In hospitals all over the country, the directors of many departments are deputy chief physicians, and many doctors in their departments are chief physicians with professional titles.

Deputy director of the department: the deputy director of the department will play an important role in assisting the director of the department, and will also play a certain role in the work of the department, but not as powerful as the director of the department.

The deputy director of a department is likely to be the deputy chief physician or the chief physician.

I believe everyone should understand that there is a special professional ability title evaluation in the doctor system, so when a doctor reaches a certain level, it is possible to be promoted to deputy chief physician or chief physician. This is a demonstration of a doctor's professional ability, which does not mean that such a doctor can reach the level of a department director, because the department director is a comprehensive evaluation.

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The differences among residents, attending physicians and chief physicians are mainly different levels, different work priorities and different responsibilities, as follows:

First, the levels are different:

1, resident, junior title. Under the attending physician, the industry is referred to as "resident".

2, the attending physician, belongs to the intermediate title. It is one level higher than the resident and one level lower than the deputy chief physician, which is different from the attending doctor or "attending doctor".

3, the chief physician, belongs to the high level. At present, it is the highest level in the doctoral title, and the abbreviation "director" is generally preceded by the surname, such as director Li.

In a hospital, the chief physician should be distinguished from the "department director". The director of a department refers to the administrative director of a department in a hospital, not the title; The chief physician is a professional title, and his level is equivalent to that of a professor in a medical school. Some chief physicians are also rated as "professors" and undertake certain scientific research and teaching tasks.

Second, the focus of work is different:

1. Residents mainly complete basic medical work, including accepting patients, recording the course of disease, prescribing doctors' orders under the guidance of superior doctors, and performing some clinical operations. They are front-line doctors who treat patients all the time, but they need to accept the guidance and supervision of superior doctors (attending doctors and above).

2. All departments in the inpatient department of the hospital allocate beds to doctors. The doctor who is mainly responsible for each bed is called the attending doctor or the attending doctor by patients and peers. It can be a resident, an attending physician, or a deputy chief physician. Is the title of a responsible person.

3. In-patient residents and attending physicians should be specifically responsible for wards and patients, and the chief physician is not responsible for specific patients, and make regular rounds.

Third, different responsibilities:

If the junior doctors have questions, they can ask the superior doctors for instructions. Major operations are mostly performed by doctors with high professional titles. If you work in an outpatient clinic, you are all the same doctors, but generally only senior professional titles can be used as expert clinics, attending doctors with technical expertise can be used as expert clinics, and junior professional titles can only be used as outpatient clinics.

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