The Resident

Dr. Randolph Bell's line "See One, Do One, Teach One" is actually a reference to a quote by Dr. William Halsted, who established the surgical residency program at Johns Hopkins University.

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Roshan Sethi, one of the series creators, was a real physician. He currently works as a palliative radiation oncologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, part of Harvard Medical School, where he is completing his residency. After writing the pilot with Amy Holden Jones, who appears in every episode of the series and writes several episodes each season, neither Sethi nor his partner Hayley Shore continued with the series or wrote another episode. Multiple doctors are part of the show's staff as writers.

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The building used for the hospital's exterior and aerial shots is the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, part of the Woodruff Arts Center.

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The series was first developed in 2016 at Showtime under the title "The City." It was then turned around (Hollywood parlance for when a studio decides not to develop a project further and offers it to other studios to cover development costs), and the following year Fox bought the series from Showtime. The original concept centered on an intern who gradually learns that his superior, a newly arrived senior resident at the hospital, is a murderous psychopath. This was dropped when the series moved to Fox.

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The first diagnosis is for lupus. The popular TV medical drama House (2004) had a long-running joke that the diagnosis would never be lupus.

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In the first year, a resident is actually called an intern. Once you reach the second year of your residency, you are referred to as a resident.

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The hospital they used for filming was the same museum used in the series Red Band Society (2014).

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The building used for the hospital's exterior and aerial shots, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, is also the building where Dr. Hannibal Lecktor is held in the film Manhunter (1986).

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The media site TV Line announced on April 6, 2023, that Fox had cancelled The Resident after six seasons. It was not much of a surprise for fans, since it had been announced a month earlier that the sets would be torn down.

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Following Medical School: * Transitional Year Residency - a one-year residency. It prepares residents for advanced specialty training in fields such as dermatology, neurology and other medical areas. Students will spend time on various clinical rotations in inpatient care, general surgery, inpatient psychiatry and many more. You will also encounter different patients with different diagnoses that can help you develop your medical skills. Essentially, it is an extension of the last two years of medical school, which place great emphasis on clinical rotations. * Internship - the first year of a typical residency program * Residency - depending on the program, it can range from three to seven years, the period used to specialize in a field of medicine * Fellowship - Subspecialty.

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Czuchry's character Conrad Hawkins has an estranged relationship with his extremely wealthy father, who becomes the hospital's president to stay close to his son and pushes him to become a doctor. On Gilmore Girls, Czuchry played Logan Huntzburger, who has a disjointed relationship with his quite wealthy father, works as a newspaper owner and pushes his son to work in print journalism.

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The series was filmed in Atlanta. During its initial run, the series creator agreed with viewers that the hospital looked 'too' picturesque to be a realistic hospital, but still stayed faithful to its look because, in the end, it was television.

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Matt Czuchry (Conrad Hawkins) and Manish Dayal (Devon Pravesh) also worked together on The Good Wife's (2009) season 3, episode 15, "Live from Damascus" (2012), as Cary Agos and Dinesh.

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The series creator Amy Holden Jones's father was a doctor.

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Emily VanCamp, Shaunette Renée Wilson and Manish Dayal all appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. VanCamp in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Captain America: Civil War (2016); Wilson in Black Panther (2018); and Dayal in Agents of SHIELD (2016 and 2017).

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Both Matt Czuchry and Emily VanCamp appeared in WB shows. Matt in Gilmore Girls (2000) and Emily in Everwood (2002), a series about doctors in which Emily played the town doctor's daughter.

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Glenn Morshower and Matt Czuchry appeared in Friday Night Lights.

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Bruce Greenwood had previously played a doctor, Dr. Seth Griffin, on St. Elsewhere.

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Bruce Greenwood, Dr. Bell, played a doctor, Dr. Houseman, in the 2017 remake of Dirty Dancing.

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Kate Hodge, Michael Paul Chan and Tzi Ma, who appeared as guest actors in separate episodes, all starred alongside the late Brandon Lee in the 1992 action film Rapid Fire.

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