r/Residency is a subreddit with 287k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses residency, hard time, struggling, looking, and looking for, 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
Advice Requests
: "Looking for a physician as husband, based on Seattle area"
14 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "Regret fm"
10 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "IR Case Logger Chrome Extension"
4 posts
#4
Money Talk
: "For all my soon to be rich folks, here are some things that are and aren’t worth buying once you get that attending $$$"
2 posts
#5
News
: "TIL: After July, June is the second most dangerous month of the year at an academic hospital"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/Residency
#1
Residency
: "First 6 months of Residency have been the worst 6 months of my life"
109 posts
#2
Hard Time
: "No orders at this time"
28 posts
#3
Struggling
26 posts
#4
Looking
24 posts
#5
Looking For
24 posts
#6
Frustrating
: "Surgery residents at community programs, are your attendings nicer?"
22 posts
#7
Program
: "Where my fellow stressed prelims who are transitioning to advanced Programs at"
22 posts
#8
Hate
18 posts
#9
Residents
: "Residents who commute 30+ minutes"
15 posts
#10
Medicine
: "Why is everything technology associated with Medicine so outdated?"
15 posts
Products Discussed in r/Residency
Comfortable Shoes
36 reviews
#1
Naturalizer
4.5★ from 4 reviews
#2
Clarks
4.3★ from 3 reviews
#3
Hoka
5.0★ from 3 reviews
Scrubs
34 reviews
#1
FIGS
4.1★ from 7 reviews
#2
Jaanuu
4.3★ from 4 reviews
#3
Mandala
4.0★ from 4 reviews
Survival Kit
19 reviews
#1
Zojirushi Thermos
5.0★ from 2 reviews
#2
Nintendo
5.0★ from 1 review
#3
Zojirushi
5.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/Residency
#1
SERIOUS
: "No orders at this time"
61 posts
#2
VENT
: "Dear attendings, if you sign up to work with residents, your job actually includes teaching them"
41 posts
#3
SIMPLE QUESTION
: "Why wasn’t I born into generational wealth?"
41 posts
#4
DISCUSSION
: "What Is a Time When Your Gut Feeling Helped Save a Patient?"
40 posts
#5
MEME
: "My program director asked why morale is low right after announcing more mandatory weekend coverage"
6 posts
#6
FINANCES
: "For all my soon to be rich folks, here are some things that are and aren’t worth buying once you get that attending $$$"
5 posts
#7
RESEARCH
: "A fellow is trying to claim 1st author from me and states that I am 2nd author. Is this justified?"
3 posts
#8
HAPPY
: "Congratulations to all those who graduated after being on pip,probation"
2 posts
#9
NEWS
: "Mind blowing!"
1 post
Member Growth in r/Residency
Yearly
+25k members(9.4%)
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Last updated: June 24, 2026