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Can anyone who is currently working as a registrar in the New Zealand system give me some information about how life is? My general understanding is that our attending = consultant, our resident = registrar, our intern = a medical officer or some such thing. I'm an ABEM boarded attending in the US, and a recruiting firm brought a position to my attention as an emergency medicine registrar.
Now when I think of a "resident" here, I think of somoene with lousy hours, lousy workload lousy pay, mandatory weekly lectures, and someone whose life generally sucks for a handful of years until they graduate and become an attending. That's how residency was, and I have no desire to do anything like that again...
I apparently can apply for recognition as a FACEM if I jump through some hoops, but apparently this doesn't mean much unless the hospital has a consultant level opening?
Now when I think of a "resident" here, I think of somoene with lousy hours, lousy workload lousy pay, mandatory weekly lectures, and someone whose life generally sucks for a handful of years until they graduate and become an attending. That's how residency was, and I have no desire to do anything like that again...
I apparently can apply for recognition as a FACEM if I jump through some hoops, but apparently this doesn't mean much unless the hospital has a consultant level opening?