residents are doctors getting advanced training in obstetrics. in order to learn by observing and participating they need to do those procedures. your hospital is most likely a "teaching hospital" that has many residents in many different specialty area. instead of seeing this as a training session view it as you had two doctors for the price of one. one highly experienced and another in training. two heads (and four hands) are always better than one head and two hands.
is it common to have a resident in a caesarean? . hi . my wife had a caesarean. there were two doctors that performed the operation that lasted nearly for an hour. in addition to an experienced md there was a resident doctor. should this be acceptable? . to be honest i was initially terrified because the operation sounded like a training session. i could hear the experienced doctor giving instructions to the resident. . thanks