Adapting and preserving through sturdy journey to create a new normal: A phenomenological insight into factors affecting medical resident's journey to consultant practice.

Objectives: To explore factors promoting and hampering a medical resident's journey from residency induction to role adaptation into consultant practice.

Methods: The qualitative, phenomenological study was conducted at the Fatima Memorial Hospital and Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan, from February to July 2019, and comprised junior residents, senior residents, newly qualified consultants and supervising consultants from four departments. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to achieve theoretical saturation.