Can residents affect your rotation grades?

[AtomKr]

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how much input do residents have on third-year grades? I was under the impression that attendings do the grading, but I figured that residents may get some input.

 

[fourthyearmed]

how much input do residents have on third-year grades? I was under the impression that attendings do the grading, but I figured that residents may get some input.

Residents definitely have input and can affect your grade so be careful what you say and do around them. But on the other hand, the resident is the one who can really see the time and effort you put into your work while the attending may only see you answer one question wrong so then if you're entire grade came from that one person, you will have blown it! You want lots of different people to have input into your grade.

 

[Bobblehead]

While in general the attending has the final say on the grades the smart ones will listen to the residents on borderline cases. If you're clearly on one side or the other of the divide by either having excelled in the structured teaching sessions or made a total fool/ass of yourself the resident likely won't have much input, but if you're the average run of the mill student who does well most of the time at the teaching sessions, the resident's input on how well you function as a member of the team will shift you one way or another.

At least in an ideal world.

 

[GrandMasterB]

😳 at our school, most third year rotation's subjective evaluations are completed almost entirely by residents. our 4th year rotations are mixed/more attending biased.

 

[12R34Y]

at my school only the attendings evaluation counts towards the grade in all rotations.

residents/interns all do the same evaluation, but they only use them for comments to put in the dean's letter.

later

 

[AtomKr]

I figured it was some sort of "unofficial" rule at that it varied at most schools...Thanks for the replies!