Best and Worst comments on clinical evals?

[TheCat]

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dude, most of you are so pathetic. This thread reminds me of when I interview for things and someone asks you to name your worst characterstics/flaws-and everybody says stuff like-"I spend to much time overanalyzing" or " I am too much of a perfectionist" Like come on-most of you listed as your worst eval something completely not bad-such as the one loser who said there worst eval was saying he was the second best student and not the first. And most others-come on poeple either post a real bad one or dont bother posting just to boost your self worth.
Face it-the majority of us 3rd years have gotten ****ty evals at some point-face it you meet/work with probably a 75 people during third year, all of whom you have to try to impress/tolerate because you never quite know who has a say in your eval-You are NOT going to get along with everyone-hell I didnt get along with most.
My worst one something along the lines but not sure exact wording since I was reading this eval in the surgery directors department-"Recomend that the student fails-he had had a poor attitude, was argumentive and did not show up on weekends. He often left without telling anyone and was the worst medical student I have worked with in my 4 years" -fat ugly surgery resident-im not justifying it-i was all of the above cause i hated the rotation and hated her-but she was just oh so hideously ugly and so fat!

 

[bigfrank]

Worst comment on my evaluations. It was made by this really fat attending that loved to collect comic books and Xena stuff:

"Worst......Student.......Ever."

😀

 

[tigershark]

Some good ones from Ob/Gyn:

Attending: "Was an excellent student, very knowledgable and well read, had the highest shelf exam score of the year"

Resident: "Poor knowledge base, needs to read more"

And the understatement of the year, from my gynecology clinic resident:

"He seemed disinterested."

 

[YouDontKnowJack]

hey, all these evals don't really mean **** right?
it seems like fun to collect all these nasty evals.

you guys will write nasty evals for your future clinical students, right?

 

[tupac_don]

okay, this is why 3rd year evals are so damn subjective and dangerous...

best: "best medical studnet thus far"

crappy one: "no obvious deficits"

Best: One of the greatest students I've ever seen, will be a leader in any field he pursues

 

[beary]

And the understatement of the year, from my gynecology clinic resident:

"He seemed disinterested."

Haha. I am on ob/gyn and just got a "seems to lack motivation." 😀

 

[GoodMonkey]

i got two evals from the same service and for our final eval, they combine all the individual ones together for a profile of sorts. in mine, written just like this, an amalgamated eval from the two different people:

"GoodMonkey needs to work on being a little more aggressive and vocal. At times, GoodMonkey came across as a little too aggressive."

there were other things in there that were pretty generic, but i guess i balance out well in terms of aggressiveness.

My favorite eval so far has been "GoodMonkey needs to work on her specialty-choosing skills. She clearly will be undervalued in [field i'm choosing] and should apply in [evaluator's field,] as her skills will be appreciated here."

 

[SLUser11]

dude, most of you are so pathetic. This thread reminds me of when I interview for things and someone asks you to name your worst characterstics/flaws-and everybody says stuff like-"I spend to much time overanalyzing" or " I am too much of a perfectionist" Like come on-most of you listed as your worst eval something completely not bad-such as the one loser who said there worst eval was saying he was the second best student and not the first. And most others-come on poeple either post a real bad one or dont bother posting just to boost your self worth.
Face it-the majority of us 3rd years have gotten ****ty evals at some point-face it you meet/work with probably a 75 people during third year, all of whom you have to try to impress/tolerate because you never quite know who has a say in your eval-You are NOT going to get along with everyone-hell I didnt get along with most.
My worst one something along the lines but not sure exact wording since I was reading this eval in the surgery directors department-"Recomend that the student fails-he had had a poor attitude, was argumentive and did not show up on weekends. He often left without telling anyone and was the worst medical student I have worked with in my 4 years" -fat ugly surgery resident-im not justifying it-i was all of the above cause i hated the rotation and hated her-but she was just oh so hideously ugly and so fat!

First of all, the "second best medical student ever" was a joke....and I'm surprised that you never got a "no sense of humor" evaluation.

Secondly, congratulations on creating one of the hardest to read paragraphs in SDN history....although I must admit that I can FEEL your anger.

Lastly, regardless of your "hey, let's be realistic, we all get bad evals" mission statement, it seems pretty obvious that you suck more than most, as evidenced by your "hell I didn't get along with most" comment, and the legitimate complaints your fat and ugly resident had.

 

[kaos]

My worst one something along the lines but not sure exact wording since I was reading this eval in the surgery directors department-"Recomend that the student fails-he had had a poor attitude, was argumentive and did not show up on weekends. He often left without telling anyone and was the worst medical student I have worked with in my 4 years" -fat ugly surgery resident-im not justifying it-i was all of the above cause i hated the rotation and hated her-but she was just oh so hideously ugly and so fat!

Dude, did you and I have the same resident? Because there was one just like her on my surg rotation too!

 

[acute]

surgery rotation >>>>WORST COMMENT:" YOU TURNED GRANDS IN HIS GRAVE "

ONE OF THE COMMENTS : " SHE IS CLEAVER TRY TO LEARN FROM HER"

 

[loveumms]

I am dreading my upcoming OB/GYN eval:

Student seemed clinically depressed b/c she was so unhappy during rotation -she looked like she would rather drive a pencil through her eye then have to listen to one more sentence strung together with three and four letter acronyms (ie: pt AMA had SROM at 1 this AM, h/o SAB, EAB and SGA PTL). Furthermore, student looked very disinterested during the 12 hours a day she was forced to stare at the attendings back during GYN surgery when the residents ignored her and scutted her out to the max. Student would make a wonderful OB/GYN.



I am only hoping it is this comical and truthful.

 

[VJWDO]

I think worst would be checkning the box that says " I have concerns about student becoming a physician"

 

[signomi]

My personal favorite: "Routinely late."
This was for a 4 week rotation in FP where I was there every day a half hour early studying in the preceptor room before clinic. It was a 45 minute drive each way, in winter, so I left damn early to get there every day. The kicker? I carpooled with another girl every day and she didn't get "routinely late." I asked the attending and she said "Oh, I didn't mean you were ever late. I just meant you weren't interested in family practice as a career and there was nowhere to put that." I got a low pass and the girl I rotated with missed 2 out of 4 weeks with pneumonia and got honors. I would bet the attending got us confused and was too embarrassed to admit it.

Also from psych I got an eval that said: "Failed to show up yesterday." The attending had told me to take the day off to study for the shelf exam. This from a lady who called me by the wrong name for 4 weeks, despite my correcting her every time.

 

[Gimlet]

Also from psych I got an eval that said: "Failed to show up yesterday." The attending had told me to take the day off to study for the shelf exam. This from a lady who called me by the wrong name for 4 weeks, despite my correcting her every time.

You'd think someone in psych would be a little more in tune with the interpersonal dynamic to not repeatedly get someone's name wrong.

 

[cdc2004]

One of the surgery attendings always called me by wrong name and I never corrected him because he new what my name was so I thought why bother.

 

[Sammich81]

I am dreading my upcoming OB/GYN eval:

Student seemed clinically depressed b/c she was so unhappy during rotation -she looked like she would rather drive a pencil through her eye then have to listen to one more sentence strung together with three and four letter acronyms (ie: pt AMA had SROM at 1 this AM, h/o SAB, EAB and SGA PTL). Furthermore, student looked very disinterested during the 12 hours a day she was forced to stare at the attendings back during GYN surgery when the residents ignored her and scutted her out to the max. Student would make a wonderful OB/GYN.



I am only hoping it is this comical and truthful.

Oh loveumms, we have all felt the OBGYN pain. Have you seen the "which specialty has the craziest residents" thread? Overwhelmingly OBGYN. I would insert, "student seemed to go into multiple absence seizures while staring at fetal heart rate monitors, then went into tonic-clonic rages when reprimanded for not following resident everytime resident went to check on said fetus--even if resident did not specify what she was doing, could have been going to pee for all student knew."

P.S. I replied to your post in the anesthesia forum about personal statements. May we both find happiness far far away from OB.

 

[Medical123]

"She has a natural empathy with patients and the staff adore her. She has performed some of the best interviews that I have seen this year on the rotation and is able to extract essential information. Her knowledge base is outstanding. She writes some of the best progress notes that I have ever seen from a medical student. She gave an outstanding presentation on x topic. She performed at the level of an intern and it has been a pleasure to work with her this past month." Grade: High Pass----what do I have to do for Honors? Walk on water?

Worst comment: On a four week surgery rotation: "Like everyone else on the team, she demonstrates a poor fund of knowledge." 😡

 

[moviefreak]

I love the anger and frustration in this thread. It makes me feel normal. Can't remember my first nasty eval verbatim, it was so bad i wanted to scratch attending's eyes out and I am not a violent person. I wanted to learn witchcraft but that's another thing to study on top of other things. In the end I just wished her 50lbs more weight, lots of wrinkles, really bad stress incontinence, early Alzheimer, early rheumatoid arthritis, insatiable midlife crisis, refractory depression...

 

[vtucci]

When they tell you to read more, what are you supposed to read- that month's issue of fill-in the blank Annals of ..... or the seminal text? Do they give you recommended reading lists for third year?

 

[Caffeinated]

Anyone else experienced the passive-aggressive comments on their evals?

For example: "Caffeinated is somewhat shy, which some people might interpret as disinterested."

This was a real written comment from an attending on a service where nobody talks to the med student, and nobody ever bothered to orient me to the service. Nobody bothered to try to teach me on this rotation, but they liberally used me as a clinic scut monkey. The few opportunities I went to the OR the attending spent more time teaching the circulating nurse and the scrub tech than teaching me. If I were interested, how would they know?

 

[Happy613]

funniest eval I have heard this year:

"student told bad jokes, thought he was funny; but was not."

 

[flipflopsnsnow]

😡
here's my personal fave....
"Student has a weak medical knowledge, no initiative, a complainter. Blames poor performance on others. 'Who forced this student into medicine??' Not failing this student would be a detriment to his future career. Needs psychotherapy." 🙁
Haha, and this WASNT a psych rotation, not sure why they thought they were qualified to comment about psychological well being, or why they chose to write this in a clinical performace evaluation.

Evals can be SUCH a joke!

 

[neutropenic]

Thank goodness only bits and pieces of evals end up in the MSPE!

 

[Medical123]

A surgery resident told me that one of the attendings once gave him this stellar comment on an evaluation:

"He operates like a ******ed monkey! Any ***** who can use a knife and fork would have better technical skills than Dr. X does! He is a f#@%ing disgrace to our program!"

Ouch!!!!!! 😱

 

[MR1]

On our Family Medicine rotation, one of my friends got in the "Pros" section of his eval, "Room for improvement". That may not seem too bad except this guy is #1 in our class, 4.0 GPA, and scored >270 on step 1. If that is the case the rest of our class is screwed.

 

[RonaldColeman]

Comment: "needs to read more."

Shelf exam raw score: 99.

 

[PainDr]

Wow...some of you are still under the impression that life is fair?!?!?

 

[Caffeinated]

Wow...some of you are still under the impression that life is fair?!?!?

No, I gave up this belief with Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. The theme of this thread is not about bemoaning the fact that life is not fair. It's about compiling some bad evaluations from really bad instructors in order that we all might get a few laughs. What good is this sick, twisted game of subjective clinical grading if we can't get a few laughs out of it?

 

[madtowngirl]

on psych: "appeared disinterested at times." Sure was, the census of 1 (borderline, to boot) wasn't really doing it for me.

 

[mysophobe]

on psych: "appeared disinterested at times." Sure was, the census of 1 (borderline, to boot) wasn't really doing it for me.

 

[ForamenMagnumPI]

This cryptic message is my personal favorite evaluation: "the ward is real life not a classroom". Actually, this was only one of this attending's pearls of wisdom. He actually sat me down at the end of his two weeks on the internal medicine service and went through a handwritten, bulleted, three-page list of my personality flaws. I wasn't sure whether I should laugh or cry. I guess since he also said "be careful how you use humor". laughter was not the correct reaction.

 

[Paws]

... He actually sat me down at the end of his two weeks on the internal medicine service and went through a handwritten, bulleted, three-page list of my personality flaws. I wasn't sure whether I should laugh or cry.

Great, I can't wait until third year. 🙄 One of my soon to be fourth year friends advised me to start taking prozac BEFORE I start my ob/gyn rotation because it will be horrendous, and there's that lag time of course before the meds start to actually work ...

 

[Zuwie]

Great, I can't wait until third year. 🙄 One of my soon to be fourth year friends advised me to start taking prozac BEFORE I start my ob/gyn rotation because it will be horrendous, and there's that lag time of course before the meds start to actually work ...

Ob/gyn is not so bad. Its residents don't have massive superiority complexes like surgery residents do. Not at my school, at least.

 

[NubianPrincess]

i got two evals from the same service and for our final eval, they combine all the individual ones together for a profile of sorts. in mine, written just like this, an amalgamated eval from the two different people:

"GoodMonkey needs to work on being a little more aggressive and vocal. At times, GoodMonkey came across as a little too aggressive."

there were other things in there that were pretty generic, but i guess i balance out well in terms of aggressiveness.

My favorite eval so far has been "GoodMonkey needs to work on her specialty-choosing skills. She clearly will be undervalued in [field i'm choosing] and should apply in [evaluator's field,] as her skills will be appreciated here."

Yours are my favorite 🙂

 

[MediCane2006]

Ob/gyn is not so bad. Its residents don't have massive superiority complexes like surgery residents do. Not at my school, at least.

No, they have massive INFERIORITY complexes, which are worse. That, and the entire department (males included) somehow have their cycles coordinated so that 50% are PMSing at any given moment 👎

ObGyn was the only time that the thought of quitting med school crossed my mind.

 

[dynx]

No, they have massive INFERIORITY complexes, which are worse.

these exact words popped into my head when I read that post.

 

[drbon]

funniest eval I have heard this year:

"student told bad jokes, thought he was funny; but was not."

 

[Sammich81]

Hahaha. I wonder if the evaluator thought they were being funny? That's harsh man, I'm sorry!

My possible misuse of humor included putting a "Sorry I farted" sign on my intern's back once. But he took it well.

 

[Micomicon]

Internal Medicine: You're a neurologist, you remember me of Charcot (wtf)
Nephrology: He's very tall, and elegant, what manners! (Female and ugly nephrologist)

Worst:
Surgery: This is the worst rotation group I've ever had, among three universities during 20 years! ( I recognize we were a *****ic group during that rotation)

These are not from standard form evaluations, just comments.

 

[Medical123]

I got a really strange evaluation from one of my preceptors the other day.

1) Medical123 has beautiful handwriting---must have went to Catholic School. 😕

2) Medical123 relates extremely well to patients and their families--one of the best students I have seen this year in this category. She is able to read the patients and their families well and shows extreme sensitivity when doing the male genital exams on young adolescent males and is able to recognize when patients are in distress, reacting and intervening appropriately. However, her weakness is in the fact that she continually tends to examine patients from the left side (dude the right side of the exam table is jammed up against the wall). This and the fact that she isn't able to always determine the exactl pathology which is occurring in the ears of our young patients about 10% of the time, makes me very concerned about her clinical diagnostic skills. However, she does use the #5 speculum for inner ear exams and is excellent at picking up heart murmurs.

3) I was impressed with how Medical123 related to a nurse who was newly assigned to me. I had threatened the nurse with dismissal if she continued to make errors regarding the forms that I use for my XYZ patients. Medical123 was able to pick up on her body language and show her what forms to use. It turns out that the error was due to the person doing the coding in the office and not the nurse. Okay.......

 

[DHMO]

This and the fact that she isn't able to always determine the exactl pathology which is occurring in the ears of our young patients about 10% of the time, makes me very concerned about her clinical diagnostic skills.

What a *******. We're student's! If we could determine the exact patholgy 100% of the time, there would be no point for us to be in school.

 

[BlackScorpion]

Best comment, Internal Medicine from an upper resident:
"Extremely intelligent, top 10%"

Worst comment, Internal medicine from an intern:
"Has potential but needs to read more, basic science knowledge lacking"

Keep in mind, this is the same team! I love the subjectivity of third year evaluations

 

[Adcadet]

However, she does use the #5 speculum for inner ear exams and is excellent at picking up heart murmurs.

Wow, usually I need the #4 to pick up heart murmurs!

 

[thesocialbeast]

I was told on my last rotation of third year that I relied on my personality to make up for my lack of knowledge. This is after receiving nothing but excellent comments throughout the year and the standard "continue to read."

 

[SLUser11]

UCLAdukes,
I don't think you heard the guy.....he's REALLY, REALLY, like, SUPER-DUPER BIG! What Psychiatry attending wouldn't be unfair and overcritical out of straight jealousy? 😕 I mean, it's not like he had any FACTS to base his bad review on....oh wait....didn't the guy skip out right after rounds....and not check out with his residents....and didn't he just prove to us that he didn't show his attending any respect............hmmmm......nope. That can't be it. It must be because he's a big strong manly-man. 😍

This is the thread that motivated me to register with SDN and start posting, like a year and a half ago. I love that it's still alive, and that people are still posting the same bulls@#t in it. Yay, SDN! 👍

 

[lluvia2rain]

I love this thread. I just posted "bad evaluations forum" thread not knowing about this.

Best " functions as an intern, pleasent to be around. Worked well with the other interns and was on-time. I strongly urged lluvia to apply for residency in XYZ field."

Worst from OB "sometimes abrupt with patients, frequently late." one resident said I was rude. I later found out that she gave bad evals to other students as well.

 

[RockShox]

My fav... All in the same sentence...

"very motivated student not hard worker often complained of workload."

Haha talk about splitting.... anyway the only complaint I had about the workload was that there was none. I mean I was on peds in the summer after completing vascular surgery...what the hell is there to complain about! Who knows where that came from.

 

[arthrodisiac]

my worst: "did not introduce self to attending", when in reality i introduced myself twice AND he wrote someone elses name on my evaluation. thanks.

 

[SkylineMD]

My previous month i got the standard comment:

Strength: "very knowledgeable"
Area of improvement needed: "needs to read more"

i guess i'm not very knowledgeable enough yet

 

[Hard24Get]

I have resisted this thread but it is just great for commisserating

Best: Attending: "working with Hard24Get was more like working with a colleague than a student"
Another - "performed at the level of a junior fellow"
😱😍


Worst: Hard24Get needs to spend more time doing basic reading
Hard24Get giggles too much, it makes people not take her seriously , I mean 😡