no i said i was MS2. i can't imagine a better way to make things worse other than telling the attending hold on i will look it up when they are trying to pimp you. but like you said i haven't started my rotations so i can be completely wrong about this...
I think you'll find that in all rotations at RWJMS (except maybe surgery on rare occasions), the pimping is really benign and is not meant to be the "firing squad" environment that you would see in the early seasons of
Scrubs. They do it to teach you, because like it or not, it is actually a really effective way of teaching, and allows them to gauge your knowledge level.
For the most part, they don't really care if they ask you something and you don't know. Usually they'll just tell you the answer, but sometimes they'll just move on to a discussion with your residents, which gives you a great chance to look it up on your PDA/book/whatever while you're all together at rounds.
For example:
Attending: Hey med student, what are Ranson's criteria?
Student: Well it's for prognostic value in pancreatitis, and it includes blah, blah, blah.....but I think there's one more I'm forgetting....
Attending: yes, there is one more. Anyway, hey resident - did you figure out why she has pancreatitis if she never drinks alcohol?
Resident: Um.....no. Still working on it.
(meanwhile med student has been looking up Ranson's criteria on PDA)
Student: OK, here....got it! It's serum AST greater than 250 at admission.
Attending: Vairy niiiiiiice!!! (In the Borat voice)
(OK, unfortunately, our attendings do not sound like Borat, but the rest of the scenario is pretty accurate)
The only thing is - once an attending asks you a question you don't know, and he tells you the answer, you used up your "get out of jail free" card, and you can NEVER EVER get it wrong again, or else you look like a jackass.
