Medical students wear short white coats.
Residents may wear long white coats with plastic or metal buttons.
Attending physicians are signified by long white coats with cloth buttons
Most all physicians enter a residency after medical school graduation but all physicians must complete a "one year rotating internship" before becoming licensed to work independently anywhere.
"General Practitioners" or GP are those that did not continue after internship to a specialty (i.e. FP, IM, OB, Surgery, etc). GPs are really a thing of the past.
A long white coat signifies an actual physician and the long difficult work it took to become one. No other type of clinical worker should be wearing one.
I have no idea what this author means by "a non-licensed" doctor can work but without hospital privileges. This article was grossly under researched.
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Medical students wear short white coats.
August 31, 2017 - 8:40amResidents may wear long white coats with plastic or metal buttons.
Attending physicians are signified by long white coats with cloth buttons
Most all physicians enter a residency after medical school graduation but all physicians must complete a "one year rotating internship" before becoming licensed to work independently anywhere.
"General Practitioners" or GP are those that did not continue after internship to a specialty (i.e. FP, IM, OB, Surgery, etc). GPs are really a thing of the past.
A long white coat signifies an actual physician and the long difficult work it took to become one. No other type of clinical worker should be wearing one.
I have no idea what this author means by "a non-licensed" doctor can work but without hospital privileges. This article was grossly under researched.
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