What is the difference? I keep seeing these credits in many TV series, but I couldn’t figure out the subtle difference in meaning. Don’t go to the Producers Guild, beacuse you won’t find a thing.
Does any of you know the meadical hierarchy? Eg, who is an attending physician and who chief resident etc.?
Usually producer refers to the person who produced the film or programme. Produced by usually refers then to the company that put up the money for the production. The words can mean the same thing. Producer is a deverbal noun with an actor suffix; produced by is a passive verb structure denoting the agent of the action. There is a marked preferrence for using the noun to refer to individuals. The verb is then left to refer to both producers and production companies.
Medical hierarchy differs from country to country, but size of stethoscope is what really matters.
It may mean some distinction between the production of a single episode and the production of the series. Alternatively, one of these individuals might take personal responsibility for the production of the programme, where the other is the managing director of the production company which employs the former.
Avoid imperatives: use conditionals. If I knew anything about medical hierarchy I would write something.
[quote author=Garzo link=board=omni;num=1087397631;start=0#3 date=06/16/04 at 11:41:34]It may mean some distinction between the production of a single episode and the production of the series. Alternatively, one of these individuals might take personal responsibility for the production of the programme, where the other is the managing director of the production company which employs the former.
Yes, that is an excellent explanation.
Avoid imperatives: use conditionals. If I knew anything about medical hierarchy I would write something.
[font=trebuchet ms]A medical student is someone who has received a bachelor’s degree and entered a four-year graduate program (medical school) leading toward a medical doctor (MD) degree. Usually, the first two years of medical school are spent in the classroom, and the final two years are spent in a clinical setting where the student can experience more hands-on learning. A medical student is not a doctor - a distinction meticulously noted within the medical community - but may be referred to as "Doctor" in front of patients. A license to practice medicine requires an additional year as an intern in a teaching hospital. John Carter was a third-year medical student the first season. He returned the second season as a fourth-year medical student doing a surgical sub-I (sub-internship), which is a more intensive training program that functions something like an audition prior to entering an internship.
An intern is someone who has received an MD and is continuing to study in the hospital setting during his or her first year out of medical school. An intern is licensed to practice medicine only within the hospital and can write prescriptions. It is possible to leave the hospital after a year and go into private practice, but most doctors choose to continue their education as residents. Theoretically speaking, an intern fills the slot that might otherwise be allotted to a "first-year resident". The hospital residency program begins with the rank of second-year resident and involves specialized training in areas such as surgery, pediatrics, internal medicine, and psychiatry. Residencies last from two to six years, depending on the specialty. The first season, Dr. Peter Benton was a second-year surgical resident. Dr. Susan Lewis was a second-year resident in emergency medicine; and Dr. Mark Greene was a fourth-year emergency medicine resident and chief resident of the ER. Interns and residents are hospital employees, and are sometimes referred to as house officers or HO’s.
A fellowship may or may not follow a residency. Fellowships are sought by doctors who want to specialize more completely in areas such as endocrinology, gastroenterology, or cardiology. For example, Dr. Doug Ross was a pediatric fellow in emergency medicine during the first season, which means that he spent three years in a pediatric residency, became a full-fledged pediatrician, and decided to go back for further training in emergency pediatrics in order to work strictly as a pediatrician in an emergency room setting.
An attending physician is one who has completed all medical training and received privileges (that is, is allowed to practice medicine) at a hospital. An attending physician is also responsible for supervising residents and medical students. The buck - professionally, legally, and ethically - stops here. Dr, Greene became ER’s attending physician during the second season.
After graduating in the UK, you do one year as a pre-registration house officer (PRHO). That consists of six months surgery and six months medicine, and used to be called the houseman’s year. Then you would go on to do anywhere between two and four years as a senior house officer (SHO) depending on hospital speciality. If you wanted to go in for general practice medicine, you’d have to do one or two years on the GP Vocational Training Scheme. Trainee GPs are often referred to as SHOs, but are based in practices. After vocational training you’d become a GP registrar for one or two years, during which you’d have to complete a number of exams. On succesful completion of these you’d become a GP principal (usually just called a GP). For hospital medicine, speciality membership exams are taken at the end of the SHO period to become a specialist registrar (usually just called a specialist). After four to six years as a specialist you’d be promoted to consultant, and be considered fully qualified in all aspects of your speciality. One of the problems with the UK system at the moment is that SHO jobs in hospitals and general practice are usually short term.
I was purposely NOT using my ER learning to answer but waiting for Perry.
So you watch the show? ;D
I like to watch it beacuse of the production, storylines, character development (although there are no many things you can do here; except if you want to make it a soap). It is not a bad show, but it could be better.
As an SHO is a Senior House Officer on might expect them to work in a hospital. Of course, a doctor specialising in general practice medicine would do a significant amount of training in a local surgery, or general medical practice, rather than a hospital.
[quote author=Elf link=board=omni;num=1087397631;start=0#8 date=06/16/04 at 15:03:35]P. S. You forgot the comma in your conditional sentence.
Translating medical titles is a pain, even when it has nothing to do with proctologists. I think that our system is not very far from the English one, but with fewer strata.
Fom the academic point of view, from 1977, you graduate after some 5,5 years of university studies. No fancy title; just "medical degree".
The first degree used to be med.kand. (candidate), followed by med.lic. (licentiate; req’d for registration. Probably equivalent to MD; acquiring a Med. Dr., doctorate, was a long and highly qualified process, as is the current Doctor of medical science.)
Following that, there is 1,5 years of general practice (called AT) within the healthcare system before acquiring status as a reg’d physician. Then specialisation can begin. There is a rather clean dichotomy between the titles referring to the stage of learning and those that address the job hierarchy.
I remember the episode Chaos Theory, written by Jack Orman & R. Scott Gemmill) in which Dr. Corday comes to London to work at her father’s hospital, where her supervisor doesn’t like the American mannerisms and vocabulary she has picked up.
The weirdest thing is when Dr. Corday says Caucasian male and her supervisor says it should be Caucasian man, because male is used for animals only. He should have corrected her pronunciation also. ;D
Funny that you’d have to translate ER to CD (casualty department) in British English.
I am a fairly typical Swede: rather tall, brown hair, greenish eyes, rather fair skin (at least in wintertime). Myself and all known ancestors, in some cases traceable back to the 16th century C.E., were born 2000 to 2500 km away from the nearest parts of the Caucasus. I would object fiercely if somebody labelled me a Caucasian.
