In any case, hospitals trained residents long before Medicare provided additional subsidies for that purpose.
In , once medical doctors successfully complete their residency program, they become eligible for certification by the or the CFPC if the residency program was in family medicine.
The term "intern" was not used by the medical profession, but the general public were introduced to it by the US television series.
This frantic, loosely structured system forced soon-to-be medical school graduates to choose within minutes programs not on their original Match list.