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My attending today berated me, in front of my patients, for not knowing the vaccination schedule of HPV. It's a pretty fair thing to expect a medical student to know, except that this is my 3rd rotation and my first IM rotation. She's well aware of this. What's even sillier is that she was disappointed when I didn't know after asking me because she genuinely didn't know herself.
I later ask for feedback for how I'm doing, but I suppose I should have waited a little longer. She's still hung up on the vaccination thing, to which her criticism is that I "really need to work on my clinical skills". She tacks on the fact that my ICD codes are poorly chosen. A shame that's not in FA.
Of course, she's not really to blame for all this. I'm fortunate to have her donate her time to my education. But it's really annoying being annoying. And it sucks being incompetent in ways that I can't help. There are so many oceans of things I don't know, and no way in sight for me to start improving.
I'm worried that I'll get a negative eval, since my ultimate competitiveness in a residency is apparently so contingent upon ICD coding and vaccination schedules. What do you do about the grade implications when you're stuck with a harsh attending who isn't all flowers and happiness? How do you improve in an environment where there's no feedback and no time for teaching?
I later ask for feedback for how I'm doing, but I suppose I should have waited a little longer. She's still hung up on the vaccination thing, to which her criticism is that I "really need to work on my clinical skills". She tacks on the fact that my ICD codes are poorly chosen. A shame that's not in FA.
Of course, she's not really to blame for all this. I'm fortunate to have her donate her time to my education. But it's really annoying being annoying. And it sucks being incompetent in ways that I can't help. There are so many oceans of things I don't know, and no way in sight for me to start improving.
I'm worried that I'll get a negative eval, since my ultimate competitiveness in a residency is apparently so contingent upon ICD coding and vaccination schedules. What do you do about the grade implications when you're stuck with a harsh attending who isn't all flowers and happiness? How do you improve in an environment where there's no feedback and no time for teaching?