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my resident wrote "Above expected patient relationships, teamwork, and humanistic qualities."
and that was it. WTF. should i have that removed from my dean's letter?
lol...i just spit my drink all over my computer screen after reading that.....Best: "one of the best med students...." This came from a chief resident that I only saw for 30 minutes. I sat quietly and watched him do an interview. That's it. No notes, no interviews, no presentations. Hmmm.
Worst: "very unprofessional." I knew that one was coming. Attending heard my fart during rounds. whoops.
i had a similar comment on peds! i dont get them - they ENJOY torturing children??
i think some attendings assume that if you do an excellent job, you get an average eval, because excellence is expected. I had a family medicine attending try to convince me daily to go into family medicine, and every single patient was like, "wow, she's great! you should give her an A ++" and i got the eval and got straight 3/5s. i emailed her just to ask how i can improve upon my skills, and she replied saying i did a great job and i'll be successfull in whatever field i choose. she had NO suggestions for improvement! she just reaffirmed that i did a good job - so why not a good eval?!?!
it's so frustrating, becuase you know that there are some attendings who give people average evals even if they suck, just because they dont want to fail them.
grrrr!!
The only thing I have to say is that I think evaluations should have time limits on them. I had one really bad experience with an attending who wrote an eval after 3 months and got me completely mixed up with some other student that he must have really disliked.
Worst I heard:
"Lacunae in fund of knowledge"... Ouch.
Worst I heard:
"Lacunae in fund of knowledge"... Ouch.
Worst/Weirdest:
Family medicine - "Please review use of commas in written reports"
And yes, that made it into my Dean's Letter...
Oh come on, that's lame overuse of medical terminology.
yes, but pretty brutal still.
Surgery, both comments from the same attending:
Positive: Good, concise notes. (Only good comment I received).
Negative: Physically weaker than other students in the past and he became tired easily. How will he handle a busy anesthesiology practice in the future if he tires this easily? I was not impressed with his fund of knowledge. He got less than 1/2 of my questions correct and it didn't seem like he was reading at night. I am interested to see how he performs on the shelf exam. Multiple times he would give wrong answers to the diagnosis and treatment when I asked him questions. Did not show much interest in any of the procedures nor ask many questions. Anesthesiology was not impressed by his fund of knowledge and my nurse thought he was more concerned with being liked than actually learning about surgery. His suturing skills were poor and he did improve but still much further behind than students of the past. He is an average student and will probably stay that way?
Ended up honoring the shelf exam and received a good evaluation from the clerkship coordinator.
I think I received the worst evaluation in medical school history but as they say, life goes on.
I love the classic: "needs to read more" SUPER annoying....Shows absolutely no thought put into the comment.
Is type writing notes a bad thing? At least your notes can be read Acherona. There is a psych intern who I worked with that typed all his notes. I loved it.
Is type writing notes a bad thing? At least your notes can be read Acherona. There is a psych intern who I worked with that typed all his notes. I loved it.
My favorite was my eval after my psych rotation ( many years ago)
Beneath the rough and somewhat unpolished exterior - lies a rough and somewhat unpolished human being
"She spent too much time reading psych"
Ummm..... it WAS my psych rotation.
One attending HP'd me for patient presentation, he'd never allowed me to present a patient on rounds . . . soooo how exactly did you evaluate that skill mister?