Hello..
With the recent removal of medical alt titles including medical intern, there is now a problem; a clear lack of learner lore for the medical department, especially one that's intended for young characters. I used to have a particularly young medical intern character which I'm now unable to use without some serious modifications, since the minimum age required for a character to be a medical resident is 25 years old.
I find that the medical resident's original intention was to be a medbay helper role, not a learner one. Sure, they're a lot less qualified than a physician and needed supervision, but there's still a major powergap between a completely inexperienced 18 year old medical intern and a medical resident who already graduated from their medical school.
A medical resident, in-character wise would be still considered competent enough to be able to help without constant pointing. (Not very good for a newbie.)
There's also a second point to make, which is the fact that other departments still have a dedicated young learner role, such as Security Cadet, and Engineering Apprentice. The age requirement for those roles is still 18 years old minimum, a lot lower than the medical resident.
This leaves us with options.
Simply lower the Medical Resident role's minimum age requirement to 18 like the other helper roles, and set an IC standard that they could be completely inexperienced.
Re-add Medical Intern as an alternate title or completely seperate role, to be specifically considered a beginner learner role and one that requires less qualifications than Medical Resident.
Since the qualifications, requirements, and tasks for a medical resident closely resemble a nurse's anyway...Just split medical resident into Nurse and Medical Intern. Now the roles are clearly cut, one is for supervised assistance, and the other is for learning and acquiring experience. If anything, Medical Resident (or Medical Helper) should be an alternate title for Nurse as a more 'neutral sounding' title.
I personally favour option 2, feel free to discuss the options or suggest your own. Thank you.