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post if u made mistakes during ur rotations and what u learned from it.
Thread to let out mistakes so that u know u r not alone.
Thread to let out mistakes so that u know u r not alone.
Thanks to a classmate that was rotating with me
"Always check with the nurse to see if the patient's baby is alive before walking in & asking how the baby is doing"
In his defense, new hospital, new patient.
Found out later that while red flower on door = girl, blue = boy, green = dead baby
lol. who doesn't love a good dead baby joke.
On a psych rotation, I was doing an MMSE on an elderly woman whose son was present in the room. She struggled with serial sevens, and was apparently discouraged by her inability to do this. In an attempt to make her feel better, I said, "That's okay, I think this would even be challenging for most normal people."
To this her son quickly responded, "What, are you saying she's abnormal? Gee, thanks!"
Lesson learned: Do not compare your patients to "normal people".
4) Don't do anything you learned on OB/Gyn while on General Surgery
Has anybody made it through MS3, or MS3 and part of MS4, without getting ANY negative criticism? I get negative criticism every rotation. It's usually not damning, usually something like I need to work on expanding my knowledge base (well, yes, of course) or making my notes shorter and more to the point, but at times I have had comments like "is rough around the edges" or "needs to find better timing for her questions." Just now a fellow MS4 commented casually that he didn't get ANY negative comments written on his 3rd year evals, and for some reason that made me feel awful, remembering that after a while I just stopped reading my comments because they usually weren't helpful. Is his experience common? I had thought that people usually, when asked, could find something "constructive" to say about a student and so most people got some negative comments. Is this not so?
he probably got lucky in the residents/attendings who filled out his evals--I think it's usually a personality thing on the part of the evaluator, a lot of people just feel the need to write something negative, or "constructive".Has anybody made it through MS3, or MS3 and part of MS4, without getting ANY negative criticism? I get negative criticism every rotation. It's usually not damning, usually something like I need to work on expanding my knowledge base (well, yes, of course) or making my notes shorter and more to the point, but at times I have had comments like "is rough around the edges" or "needs to find better timing for her questions." Just now a fellow MS4 commented casually that he didn't get ANY negative comments written on his 3rd year evals, and for some reason that made me feel awful, remembering that after a while I just stopped reading my comments because they usually weren't helpful. Is his experience common? I had thought that people usually, when asked, could find something "constructive" to say about a student and so most people got some negative comments. Is this not so?
In residency, we were REQUIRED to put constructive negative criticism on the med student evals. The clerkship coordinator would send the eval back to us if we didn't....Has anybody made it through MS3, or MS3 and part of MS4, without getting ANY negative criticism? I get negative criticism every rotation. It's usually not damning, usually something like I need to work on expanding my knowledge base (well, yes, of course) or making my notes shorter and more to the point, but at times I have had comments like "is rough around the edges" or "needs to find better timing for her questions." Just now a fellow MS4 commented casually that he didn't get ANY negative comments written on his 3rd year evals, and for some reason that made me feel awful, remembering that after a while I just stopped reading my comments because they usually weren't helpful. Is his experience common? I had thought that people usually, when asked, could find something "constructive" to say about a student and so most people got some negative comments. Is this not so?
I'd say my worst was walking into the (peds cardio outpatient clinic) room of a 13 year old male. He was sitting on the table, and his dad/mom were sitting in the chairs next to him.
I introduced myself to the patient, then turned to dad to shake his hand and he said "Hi I'm his father". Then I went to Dad's right and said "Hi Mom" going to shake her hand.
The father started cracking up and said "That's not his mother, that's his little sister."
Dad thought it was funny, but boy was the girl pissed
lol, you talk to your attendings that casually? that's pretty cool.
I was on labor in delivery at a small community hospital at 1 am with an attending I was shadowing for a few weeks in OB/GYN. A young woman was being evaluated for labor in triage and the nurses had no idea where anything was. My doctor needed a light to help visualize the cervix and the nurse ran out of the room for quite a while. At some point I thought of the stellar idea to "help out" by turning on the flash light app on my iphone for the doctor. The woman freaked out because she thought I was taking a picture of her vagina with my phone...
The doctor thought it was hilarious and the woman didn't care once she understood, but it was that day I learned the obvious lesson to not point your phone's camera at your patients vagina for any reason... (I face palmed so hard after this)
I was on labor in delivery at a small community hospital at 1 am with an attending I was shadowing for a few weeks in OB/GYN. A young woman was being evaluated for labor in triage and the nurses had no idea where anything was. My doctor needed a light to help visualize the cervix and the nurse ran out of the room for quite a while. At some point I thought of the stellar idea to "help out" by turning on the flash light app on my iphone for the doctor. The woman freaked out because she thought I was taking a picture of her vagina with my phone...
The doctor thought it was hilarious and the woman didn't care once she understood, but it was that day I learned the obvious lesson to not point your phone's camera at your patients vagina for any reason... (I face palmed so hard after this)
I 2nd-degreed a G6 delivering a 3.5kg baby. Haven't lived it down since, though everyone reassures me that you never know who's going to get a lac.
One of my medical students months ago laughed at a 320 lb Samoan man who was tip-toeing around the psych room because he thought he was a fairy.
I didn't care, but you don't laugh at a 6'3" 320 lb Samoan man.
One of my medical students months ago laughed at a 320 lb Samoan man who was tip-toeing around the psych room because he thought he was a fairy.
I didn't care, but you don't laugh at a 6'3" 320 lb Samoan man.