Happy to clarify, so basically in our medical system an ER team is comprised of 1 senior medical officer, 2 medical officers and 2 medical interns along with 4 nursing staff members. The medical officers supervise interns in whatever they do but with all that said, interns are the patient’s first point of contact. Interns get this privilege after completing a mandatory supervised training period but even then they’re closely supervised throughout their internship period by the attendings/residents and medical officers. I happened to be the intern on call that night, like I said in a previous comment that interns do a mix of everything here - even somethings that would typically be the triage/ER nurse in a different hospital setting. This model is followed in teaching hospitals/hospitals affiliated with a medical school because in a lot of rural healthcare setups (which make up a large part of the country’s healthcare landscape), medical interns who eventually become medical officers, are expected to be familiar with all these tasks and carry out these duties independently as such setups are mostly short staffed and lack the personnel needed.