 [ Symptoms ] what is the recovery time from a hysterectomy [ Disease ] 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