r/Residency is a subreddit with 286k members. The most common kinds of discussions are pain & anger and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses residency, looking, looking for, attending, and hate, 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
: "Attending blamed me for ruining an expensive scope and now I am facing a formal review"
11 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "The concept of “protected time” baffles me"
11 posts
#3
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 $$$"
1 post
#4
News
: "TIL: After July, June is the second most dangerous month of the year at an academic hospital"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/Residency
#1
Residency
: "de-influence me from nyc Residency"
165 posts
#2
Looking
24 posts
#3
Looking For
24 posts
#4
Attending
: "For all my soon to be rich folks, here are some things that are and aren’t worth buying once you get that Attending $$$"
21 posts
#5
Hate
19 posts
#6
Intern
: "Boundaries with my Intern?"
19 posts
#7
Struggling
18 posts
#8
Medical
: "Can we talk about mask fit testing?"
18 posts
#9
Fellowship
: "Hospitalists who went back to Fellowship after a few years as an attending: How did you make the choice?"
15 posts
#10
Im
14 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
: "I gotta say, I hate this the most about academic medicine"
63 posts
#2
SERIOUS
: "Our IM residency accidentally created a standing Taco Tuesday wellness program"
57 posts
#3
DISCUSSION
: "Too many clowns at grand rounds"
26 posts
#4
SIMPLE QUESTION
: "EDS, fibromyalgia, POTs unholy trinity"
22 posts
#5
MEME
: "anyone else have nightmare about having to go back to HS or college because they are “missing one credit”?"
11 posts
#6
HAPPY
: "I like night shifts"
9 posts
#7
MIDLEVEL
: "The mandatory wellness lecture was the final insult to my sanity"
3 posts
#8
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 $$$"
3 posts
#9
MEME - February Intern Edition
: "Overheard my attending taking a dump and genuinely could not process it"
2 posts
#10
RESEARCH
: "A fellow is trying to claim 1st author from me and states that I am 2nd author. Is this justified?"
2 posts
Member Growth in r/Residency
Yearly
+25k members(9.4%)
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Last updated: June 15, 2026