I had this amusing situation the other day where we made a referral to a gastroenterologist, and when she came to see our patient it became rapidly obvious that she was only recently qualified as a consultant gastroenterologist.
Now this was not because she wasn’t good at her job, but rather because she kept on saying things like “Where do you keep your consent forms?” and “How do I pull up x-rays on the computers here?”.
Obviously she hadn’t quite switched from the role of registrar (where it would be reasonable to do that kind of thing yourself) to the role of consultant (where she should have just been getting me to do it for her)…