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I havent done clinicals yet, and I am curious about how people compete against each other.
I am envisioning a lot of fellow students and me competitng for a very limited number of experiences.
How true is this? Is this something where only the 2 most aggressive students get to do 95% of all clinical work whereas the other 10 of us just do the scut work?
On an internal medicine rotation, how many other students do you work with and how much competition is there? How aggressive do you have to be to get the necessary exposure? Do you have to wash your residents/attendings laundry in the hopes they will "throw you a bone" with a procedure?
Everybody complains about hte "gunner mentality" but how the hell am I supposed to act differently when the nature of clinical rotations DEMANDS that you act like a gunner?
I am envisioning a lot of fellow students and me competitng for a very limited number of experiences.
How true is this? Is this something where only the 2 most aggressive students get to do 95% of all clinical work whereas the other 10 of us just do the scut work?
On an internal medicine rotation, how many other students do you work with and how much competition is there? How aggressive do you have to be to get the necessary exposure? Do you have to wash your residents/attendings laundry in the hopes they will "throw you a bone" with a procedure?
Everybody complains about hte "gunner mentality" but how the hell am I supposed to act differently when the nature of clinical rotations DEMANDS that you act like a gunner?