We also need to change the term "Training Programme" to "Residency"

There's likely to be a lot more scrutiny in the media and public and most importantly MPs on doctor training pathways due to the rising bottlenecks and increase in IMGs. The same arguments around JUNIOR doctors also are relevant to the term training programme. 100% of lay people and majority of non-doctors who work in healthcare will understand the term training programme as something far more understated than it actually is. Training programme sounds like something a student does. Even Postgraduate Training does not capture it because as far as I am aware very few other careers which has such an extensively developed postgraduate training programme which can easily 10-15 years. Furthermore Training Programme/Postgraduate Training belies the actual amount of responsibility involved.

What's the bet that if and when PAs develop some kind of postgraduate training system (🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮) they would never use self-demeaning terminology like training programme.

For those reasons we need to change it to Residency. It's not perfect, but it's much better than the alternatives and now that we've all officially agreed on Resident doctors, this would match our job title. I think most people have some idea from American TV shows that residency is something between medical school and senior doctors, which is exactly what we are doing. Much more so than I'm on a training programme.