Internship

An intern is a term used for a doctor in training who has completed medical school. An intern has a medical degree, but does not have a full license to practice medicine unsupervised and so are taught by their residents and attendings.
Interns in a medical residency are also known as medical interns, while interns in a surgical residency are known as surgical interns.
==Start of Residency Year==
The start of a residency year at Seattle Grace Hospital/Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital/Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital is typically marked by an intern mixer, shortly before the nation-wide official start of a residency year on July 1st. The mixer gives the interns from all specialties (internal medicine, surgery, ...) a chance to get to know each other and the hospital as well as any present attendings. On their first day, the surgical interns are welcomed by the Chief of Surgery and/or the Director of the Residency Program. Afterward, the surgical interns get scrubs, lab coats, trauma protocols, a phone list and pagers (if still used) and are met by the resident to whom they have been assigned.
===Richard's Speech===
During his tenure as Chief of Surgery at Seattle Grace Hospital and the successor hospitals established later on, Richard gave the same speech to the new class of interns every year on their first day as he first showed them the hospital's operating room. As such, it became well-known among the surgeons on staff, even those who were trained elsewhere. After stepping down as Chief, he was appointed the Director of the hospital's Residency Program and thus continued the habit of welcoming the new interns with his classic speech.
Aside from the first time the speech was shown in the very first episode, it was shown on two more occasions for new intern classes:
*Time Stops: Richard, as Director of the Residency Program, welcomes Andrew's class of interns with his speech. Audrey Shaw interrupts his speech by asking why the residency will be the best and worst of their life. He is disoriented for a second due to being interrupted and says he was getting to that, then continues as per usual.
*My Happy Ending: A new class of interns start out early to help out during the coronavirus pandemic. The heavy impact the pandemic has on the medical field is reflected in a heavily changed version of Richard's speech.
===Bailey's Speech===
Bailey's classic "five rules" speech as given to her interns was later used when those interns became residents and were assigned interns themselves. The speech is given as the resident shows their interns around the hospital.
===Chronicled Residency Years During the Show===
The following episodes show or confirm the introduction of a new class of interns:
*A Hard Day's Night: Richard welcomes Meredith's class of interns to the hospital with his iconic speech.
**Seasons two and three continue the residency year that started at the beginning of season one.
*A Change is Gonna Come: The welcome speech for Lexie's class of interns was not shown. They were only shown to be told Bailey's speech by their respective residents.
**Season five continues the residency year that started with season four.
*Goodbye: Lexie mentions becoming a second-year resident that day but no specific new interns were introduced, thus no speech was shown.
*Season 7: While the known residents were confirmed in dialogue to have progressed to the next years, no new interns were shown. The timeline in the beginning of the season is not specified. As such it's not clear in which episode the new residency year has started. It is likely that it started in the two-month gap between the finale of season six and the start of season seven. If so, it is also possible no welcome speech was given due to the hospital still shaken up by the shooting (with Chief of Surgery Derek recovering from being shot and Richard stepping in as interim Chief).
*Free Falling: New interns are introduced yet no welcome speech was shown though it likely happened as Richard didn't step down until shortly after the start of the residency year.
*Season 9: Jo's class of interns started out shortly after the plane crash, thus a month before Going, Going, Gone. Flashbacks shown in Remember the Time did not show their first day. Owen Hunt was Chief of Surgery at that point and it remains unknown if he even gave a speech to the new interns.
*Map of You: Jo's class of interns have taken their intern exam and progressed to their second year of residency. No interns were introduced on screen for the remained of season ten.
*Season 11: I Must Have Lost It on the Wind takes place after the start of the new residency year and confirms the fellows from season ten have finished their fellowship/the residents have progressed to their next year of residency.
*She's Leaving Home: The episode(s) chronicle(s) a full year yet only focus on the holidays. July 4th is shown but no welcome speech is shown, nor are any new interns for that matter.
*Time Stops: Richard, as Director of the Residency Program, welcomes Andrew's class of interns with his speech. Audrey Shaw interrupts his speech by asking why the residency will be the best and worst of their life. He is disoriented for a second due to being interrupted and says he was getting to that, then continues as per usual.
**The rest of season eleven and seasons twelve and fourteen continue the residency year that started in Time Stops.
*Season 14: Come on Down to My Boat, Baby shows the intern mixer for the new class of interns. Grey's Anatomy: B-Team, which runs in parallel to Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, chronicles the interns' first day. Bailey welcomes the residents in the locker room and recites her own five rules. Richard's speech was not shown though he was shown to round with Dahlia, one of the interns.
**Season fifteen continues the residency year that started in season fourteen.
*Season 16: No new interns are introduced nor is the start of the new residency year specified. It likely started somewhere during the five weeks spanned in Nothing Left to Cling To
*My Happy Ending: A new class of interns start out early to help out during the coronavirus pandemic. The heavy impact the pandemic has on the medical field is reflected in a heavily changed version of Richard's speech.
*Everything Has Changed: After the residency program at Grey Sloan was shut down, it was re-opened six months ahead of the usual start of the residency year under interim Chief Meredith Grey and residency director Richard Webber. Given the unusual circumstances - with the senior residents all having relocated to residency programs at different hospitals - they took applications from hundreds of applicants and ultimately decided to settle on residents with special stories, heart, and a drive that were either expelled from other programs (due to a variety of reasons) or were never matched to a residency program due to bad grades.
==Surgical Interns and Their Residents==
The interns are listed under their residents according to their season of introduction.
===Season 1, 2, and 3===
*Dr. Miranda Bailey
**Dr. Meredith Grey
**Dr. Cristina Yang
**Dr. George O'Malley
**Dr. Izzie Stevens
**Dr. Alex Karev (re-assigned; originally assigned to Jeremy)
===Seasons 4 and 5===
*Dr. Cristina Yang
**Dr. Lexie Grey
**Dr. Steve Mostow
**Dr. Ryan Spalding (re-assigned to her)
**Dr. Dani Mandvi (until re-assigned to George)
**Unidentified male intern
*Dr. Meredith Grey
**Lucy
**Dr. Megan Nowland
**Dr. George O'Malley (until passing the intern exam; also unofficially The Chief's Intern)
**Unidentified male intern
*Dr. Izzie Stevens
**Claire
**Mitch
**Dr. Leo Byrider
**Dr. Graciella Guzman (until re-assigned to George)
*Dr. Alex Karev
**Laura
**James
**Dr. Pierce Halley (until re-assigned to George)
**Dr. Norman Shales (from joining the program until quitting)
**Dr. Sadie Harris (from joining the program until quitting)
*Dr. George O'Malley
**Dr. Pierce Halley (originally assigned to Alex)
**Dr. Graciella Guzman (originally assigned to Izzie)
**Dr. Dani Mandvi (originally assigned to Cristina)
**Lisa
===Season 8===
*Dr. Lexie Grey
**​Logan
**2 unidentified male interns
**2 unidentified female interns
*Unknown resident
**​Dr. Morgan Peterson
===Seasons 9 and 10===
The season 9 interns were all assigned to unknown residents.
*Dr. Jo Wilson
*Dr. Shane Ross
*Dr. Leah Murphy
*Dr. Stephanie Edwards
*Dr. Heather Brooks (until death)
*Susan
*Tina
*Stacey
*Irene
===Seasons 11 to 13===
*Dr. Stephanie Edwards (until quitting)
**Dr. Andrew DeLuca
**Dr. Isaac Cross
**Dr. Audrey Shaw
**Dr. Mitchell Spencer
*Unknown resident(s)
**Dr. Hannah Brody
**Dr. Jason Mills
**Dr. Jessica Pahlavi
**James
===Season 14 and 15===
The season 14 interns were assigned to Jo Wilson until she started her fellowship.
*Dr. Sam Bello (until leaving) 
*Dr. Levi Schmitt
*Dr. Casey Parker
*Dr. Dahlia Qadri (until fired)
*Dr. Vikram Roy (until fired)
*Dr. Taryn Helm
===Season 17===
The season 17 interns started out in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Since the usual hierarchy at the hospital was no longer intact, with attendings doing scut as well, they have not yet been assigned to a specific resident.
*Dr. Sara Ortiz
*Dr. Alma Ortiz
*Dr. James Chee
*Dr. Reza Khan
*Jensen (until quitting)
*Stewart (until quitting)
===Season 19===
The season 19 interns were assigned to Levi Schmitt and Taryn Helm as Co-Chief Residents.
*Dr. Lucas Adams
*Dr. Simone Griffith
*Dr. Benson Kwan
*Dr. Jules Millin
*Dr. Mika Yasuda
==Notes and Trivia==
*While Meredith was an intern, there were only six female interns out of the class of twenty interns.
*The interns have 48 hour shifts and work every second day.
*According to Bailey, ER interns don't know the ass from the esophagus.
*Bailey has described her former interns as such: Alex was lazy, Izzie was whiny, Meredith was downright depressing, and Cristina was annoying. In the first episode, Bailey said, "George O'Malley is a puppy." Later, she said George was her favorite.
*Curiously, the season 9 interns were always on the services of attending surgeons. In earlier seasons, interns were always seen assisting their residents rather than being on an attending's service.
*Throughout the course of the series, all of Bailey's interns have been on the operating table at least once.
*According to Callie, psych interns aren't the sharpest.
*It's unknown how it gets decided which resident interns get assigned to. Over the course of the series, residents from different years have been assigned interns.
**In the first season, the five interns get assigned to Bailey, a fourth year resident at the time.
**In season four, the new interns get assigned to second year residents.
**In season seven, fourth-year resident Alex mentions having interns.
**In season eight, Lexie is assigned interns in her fourth year.
**In season eleven, Stephanie first is assigned interns while in her fourth year.
**In season fourteen, Jo is assigned her first group of interns while in her fifth year.
**In season nineteen, Levi is assigned interns while in his fourth year of residency. Later Taryn rejoined the program as co-chief.
*While a medical intern is also a first-year internal medicine resident, Grey's Anatomy utilizes the term surgical intern for first-year surgical residents.
*In order to practice unsupervised medicine as a resident, an intern must pass the final part of United States Medical Licensing Exam, otherwise known as the Intern Test.
*Season 17 interns started their internships earlier in the year to support the hospital staff due to Covid-19 pandemic.
==See Also==
*Medical Education
*Medical School
*Resident
*Fellow
*Board Certification
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