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Specialty medical training worldwide has evolved from an unstructured apprenticeship of unlimited duration to the modern, time‐bound, curriculum‐based and competency‐driven model, with certification of the trainee and accreditation of the trainer.[1‐3] Advanced medical training in India has been traditionally apprenticeship‐based and the changeover to the contemporary system has been unenthusiastic, slow, patchy, and mostly incomplete.[4‐13] Residency training programs in our country have an immense and untapped potential – clinical material is vast, teachers are experienced, and students are the best among their fraternity.[4] However, there is a striking disparity in the standard of infrastructure, quality of faculty, system of training, and mode of evaluation among the residency programs, which necessarily affects the final output.[4‐13] A judicious investment of resources and efforts in standardizing the residency programs and a system‐based approach will likely yield very rich dividends and positively affect the overall quality of health care in the country.[4]