Liberal doublespeak. Having had GYN procedures while hospitalized, I can tell you that half the docs running around in teaching hospitals are residents. So what's the "it" she is talking about?
During the Primaries, some freeper accessed Judy Dean's web site and discovered that the nice liberal doctor lady does not accept Medicare or Medicaid payments. Maybe she's changed that by now.
Not this time. She's taking about pelvic exams.
Internal medicine residents are not trained to do surgical procedure (that's for the surgical and OG/GYN residents) but they may have watched the procedures and taught post-op care.
I don't know if the Deans did or did not do abortions.
However I don't find anything they've said as inconsistent with typical training given an Internist. Most internists don't go to PP to get extra GYN training but I can believe their explanantion that they did go to PP to get extra experience without resorting to insisting they performed abortions.
In the hospital most GYN procedures are done by GYN residents. Very few Gyn procedures are done by internal medicine residents. During my internship in Internal Medicine while on the wards I think I did 2 pelvic exams.
AS to others who discuss malpractice and procedures done by non-medical people, MD's are held to a higher standard. An outcome that wouldn't be malpractice if done by a lay person may well be malpractice if done by a physician. (At least that's my understanding of Good Samaritan Laws...lay folks stopping and helping at the scene of an accident can't be sued, MD's can. While I'm not a lawyer I wouldn't be surprised to find the same double standard in place for the abortion question.)