u/Maybedoc1

Resident Physician vs Physician on dating profile?

I’m a resident physician in a specialty with very humane hours, basically 8–5 M–F. I’m not working 90 hours a week like some colleagues. Getting back on hinge after a LTR ended last year.

I don’t plan to list “healthcare” as my job title. Online dating is already hard enough, and I don’t like the vagueness of “healthcare worker.”

Wondering whether to list physician or resident physician. “Resident physician” is most accurate, but many will assume terrible hours and years of limited availability. That could lead to automatic left swipes.

Listing “physician” is also accurate. I graduated med school, I’m a doctor, just haven't fully finished my training. The downside is people might assume I’ve finished residency, earn a high salary, or can move anywhere when that isn't the case yet.

Some people worry that listing physician attracts people interested mainly in money, but I feel confident I can weed those people out. I’m also very selective about who I date seriously. I’d also prefer to date other educated/successful people.

I’m not trying to mislead anyone, but I also don’t want to limit matches. Any thoughts? I’m a man dating women, early 30s, looking for something serious but open to casual in meantime (although I'm just putting long term relationship on my profile), in a major US city

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u/Maybedoc1 — 8 hours ago
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I can’t be the only one that has had a year from hell. Intern year is hard for everyone, but being forced to spend a year cosplaying as an IM/surgery resident when you’re doing a completely unrelated specialty sucks in ways that most residents won’t understand. Knowing I have 5 years left of training after this was the icing on the poop cake. Did I learn things? I did 1/3 of an internal medicine residency so of course I did, but how much of it will be at all helpful to me as a radiologist? I would guess not a whole lot. I did ~6 months of wards and 3 months of primary care clinic yet I’m going to be useless when I show up to radiology residency in July. 

Anyway I got my schedule for DR today and finally felt some hope and excitement :)

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u/Maybedoc1 — 2 months ago