r/Residency is a subreddit with 290k members. The most common kinds of discussions are pain & anger and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses residency, looking, looking for, struggling, and im, and they frequently recommend/review comfortable shoes, scrubs, and survival kit.
Welcome to the Residency subreddit, a community of interns and residents who are just trying to make it through training!
This is a subreddit specifically for interns and residents to get together and discuss issues concerning their training and medicine/surgery.
Popular Themes in r/Residency
#1
Pain & Anger
: "You doctors are a bunch of crooks"
10 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "How do you handle your first *bad* diagnosis?"
5 posts
Popular Topics in r/Residency
#1
Residency
: "How to survive Residency if you hate your Residency class?"
30 posts
#2
Looking
24 posts
#3
Looking For
24 posts
#4
Struggling
: "Outpatient neuro clinic and Struggling with patients who act “unhappy” and wanna be lowkey argumentative when I recommend stuff"
18 posts
#5
Im
14 posts
#6
Hate
14 posts
#7
Pgy1
13 posts
#8
Help
13 posts
#9
Intern
: "IM Intern. Getting hammered on hospital medicine right now. I need a book with most common conditions and how to manage them so I can survive this ordeal. Thank you"
10 posts
#10
Struggles
9 posts
Products Discussed in r/Residency
Comfortable Shoes
36 reviews
#1
Naturalizer
4.5★ from 4 reviews
#2
Clarks
4.3★ from 3 reviews
#3
Hoka
5.0★ from 3 reviews
Scrubs
34 reviews
#1
FIGS
4.1★ from 7 reviews
#2
Jaanuu
4.3★ from 4 reviews
#3
Mandala
4.0★ from 4 reviews
Survival Kit
19 reviews
#1
Zojirushi Thermos
5.0★ from 2 reviews
#2
Nintendo
5.0★ from 1 review
#3
Zojirushi
5.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/Residency
#1
VENT
: "Chiropractor missed a diagnosis of Ewing sarcoma. In a 12 year old."
67 posts
#2
SERIOUS
: "Resident committed suicide"
44 posts
#3
DISCUSSION
: "Tension between nurses and doctors"
35 posts
#4
MEME
: "You are Surgery and you are unwell"
18 posts
#5
SIMPLE QUESTION
: "I found one of the OR RNs on Onlyfans"
18 posts
#6
HAPPY
: "Congratulations to all the graduates today! Life will get better except for those in Neurosurgery!"
8 posts
#7
NEWS
: "Yeah... I got called for my comment about a rude nurse"
2 posts
#8
ADVOCACY
: "New grads: don’t forget they’re paying for your expertise, not just your volume."
2 posts
#9
MEME - February Intern Edition
: "I’m a BMP and the resident called the nurse fat"
2 posts
#10
FINANCES
: "SAVE plan is ending, what's everyone's plans going forward?"
2 posts
Member Growth in r/Residency
Yearly
+26k members(10.0%)
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Last updated: July 24, 2026