The Resident is about a stern, brilliant doctor, Conrad Hawkins, who shows an idealistic young intern, Devon Pravesh, on his first day what really goes on behind the curtains of the hospital. He shows him both the good and bad sides of modern medicine. Lives can be saved or lost, but expectations will always be shattered. Devon finds out that working in a hospital is different in reality than how he imagined it. Together with Conrad and the rest of the staff, however, they try to make the best of it.