How should I introduce myself to patients?

academic clinical fellow in obstetrics and gynaecology, says, "Understanding names, roles, and levels of training in medicine are important-both to resident doctors, who represent a wide range of experience across all specialties, and to patients.The complexities of medical hierarchies and changes to nomenclature mean, however, that communicating exactly what your experience level is can be challenging.While the public may have a good idea what a consultant is, the various names used for training and specialty doctors are less well understood."While somewhat clunky, I've developed an introduction that sets up my role as a junior member of the team-it makes clear that I am a qualified doctor but still learning within my specialty, and therefore may need to ask a senior doctor for a second opinion.So I might say, 'I'm Anna Harvey, one of the doctors on the team today.I'm fully qualified but I am still learning in obstetrics and gynaecology, so if there's anything I'm unsure about I might ask one of my bosses to come in and take a look.' "This means the patient is primed to see a second professional if needed.I introduce these seniors, typically with their full name and title, even if I'd personally refer to them by their first name.I adopted this approach when I noticed an imbalance between how male and female consultants were introduced by other members of the team.