This is a really dumb question but

[Moxess]

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Is residency ANYTHING like it's portrayed on TV shows?
As in, Grey's Anatomy without the drama or Scrubs without the comedy?
I imagine it's about 100 times more work than on TV.

 

[tum]

it's like grey's except people aren't as good looking.

it's like er, except med students usually don't drop central lines.

it's like scrubs, except a *lot* more comedy. and no one as cool as the janitor or ted.

it wouldn't be unreasonable to say scrubs is psychologically the closest to how doctors actually think.

and until they can get my tv screen to exude that unsettling VA scent, no show will really capture that experience, ever.

 

[mig26x]

Grey is a joke, they say in the program that the surgery program is one of the top programs in the nation yet they have more time to chit-chat than to do surgery.

For me scrubs is more close to real life, especially the early episodes of scrubs when they were just interns.

ER= a med student in that show is an attending in real life. But it gives a real picture of what an ER of a busy inner-city hospital is like.

 

[tum]

actually to be honest, i've never actually watched a full episode of grey's.

i feel like if there's one medical show that people in medicine dislike (aside from something ridiculous like general hospital), then it's gotta be grey's just because of how blatantly off it is. but then again, i just admitted i never watched a full episode, so maybe i'm just being a med-snob

 

[Moxess]

I've never watched grey's either, but i've heard there's more drama and "omg who's sleeping with who" than anything else.

 

[viostorm]

Regarding Grey's ... please tell me intern year doesn't go on for 3 and now an upcoming 4th season. Please tell me you actually move up the food chain.

 

[Mumpu]

Grey's portrays two things the surgery interns never see: daylight and the inside of the operating room. It should be about people writing insulin sliding scales and recording Tmaxes from 5 am until 10 pm every day.

House may be semi-accurate for medicine at some rich private hospitals (i.e. doing the most expensive test first, followed by chem7 and CBC on hospital day 25).

Scrubs has a decent grasp on general physician mentality and is probably the most accurate for the non-medical aspects of residents' lives.

 

[GoofyDoc]

Scrubs by far is the most realistic I'd say, at least as far as I would compare with my own program. It's as accurate as any show can be in regard to residents' mentalities, behavior, and relationships.