Awards for Attendings at your Residency

[DrQuinn]

Hey guys, need a little help here. It being the first year of my program and all my intern class wanted to give out some "token awards" to our attendings. So far I have come up with "Best Lecturer," "Best Clinical Teacher," and "Best Attending to have behind you if the BM hits the fan." I want them to be semi-serious but as you can tell with a bit of humor... thinkign 4-5 awards... any other ideas for a few more?

Q, DO

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[Febrifuge]

just some brainstorming...hope something sparks for you...

"Walking Talking Tintinalli" for the one most able to rattle off obscure info

"He/She Who Creates Least Scut Work"

"Quick Draw" for the one able to do the fastest procedure

"eXtreeeEEEme Attending" for the one with the most outrageous/ strenuous case

 

[basementbeastie]

pimpdaddy: attending who pimps the most
gangbusta: attending who doesn't take crap from the young punks
CYA: attending who practices the most defensive medicine
pornstar: attending most likely to show up in a porn movie
slickwillie: attending that can get the medicine team to take the social admit with enthusiasm

just some ideas.....

 

[basementbeastie]

whoops! you wanted "semi-serious"....now that's no fun....

 

[ERMudPhud]

We had a giant horse endotracheal tube that we gave to the attending with the most outrageous procedure-one year it went to the attending who did a trauma thoracotomy with a pair of trauma shears.

We gave a gold plated speculum to the resident who had done a pelvic on the skankiest frequent flyer but you could come up with other criteria for the same award

 

[edinOH]

one year it went to the attending who did a trauma thoracotomy with a pair of trauma shears.

That's just crazy!!

It seems to me that the time it would take to cut between the ribs with some shears would most likely equal the time it would take to find that damned thoracotomy tray!

Was the attending's last name McGuyver by chance?

Damn.

 

[SaltySqueegee]

That's just crazy!!

It seems to me that the time it would take to cut between the ribs with some shears would most likely equal the time it would take to find that damned thoracotomy tray!

Was the attending's last name McGuyver by chance?

Damn.

Crazy, but I've seen this before as well. After a ton of fluids pumped into a patient, with the BP barely pushing O2 to the noggin, the trauma surg and the on hand EM Doc had at the guy's chest with a set of trauma shears.

 

[DrQuinn]

We had a giant horse endotracheal tube that we gave to the attending with the most outrageous procedure-one year it went to the attending who did a trauma thoracotomy with a pair of trauma shears.

We gave a gold plated speculum to the resident who had done a pelvic on the skankiest frequent flyer but you could come up with other criteria for the same award

Damn that's pretty funny... I think we'll have to do that at our senior roast in two years when our first class graduates!

I ended up just doing four awards:
Best EM Lecturer
Best EM Clinical Teacher
Best EM Attending to have behind your back when the BM hits the fan
Best Walking Tintinalli (Thanks Febrifuge).

Q, DO

 

[jsmith123]

I don't know about seriousness, but one place I worked in college gave out awards at the Christmas party every year to a lot of folks and made them up specifically for those people and then gave appropriate "trophies". I got the "Healthy Breakfast Award" thanks to my usual Mountain Dew and Pop-tart breakfast! It was always fun and good for morale. We could all laugh together at ourselves.