M3 in a primary care clerkship right now, outpatient based.
It's a busy practice. We see patients q15 minutes. My preceptor has me write notes for everyone I see-and will sometimes make me see the next patient before I'm done w/ notes for the previous one. She leaves after the last patient is seen and makes me stay late (1-2 hrs) and finish the notes. At this point she herself, writes very few notes-I do the bulk of it.
She has this policy (note, NOT a school policy) that anytime any doctor in that clinic is in-house (4 total), I must be too. Which means, if she opens shop at 8, I must be there at 8-but when she leaves at 4 or 5, if another doctor (who began at 11 AM) stays until 8 PM-then so must I, writing notes for the other doctor. She opens at 6 to leave at 2 sometimes-and I must help her from 6 AM-2 PM, then the other doctors until whenever clinic closes.
On top of it, as I'm writing notes, she will pimp me extensively on minute details from online, or very specific "zebra-like" clinical scenarios beyond med student scope. It is overwhelming. I barely have time to think. Assigns me tons of readings too. at least 1/d.
On top of this...got shelf to study for.
I'm burned out and beginning to feel depressed and apathetic about just about everything. Do students deserve such little respect that we're literally used as unpaid labor? I know it's good to see patients/learn but at this point the practice is using me as free labor with this policy that anytime any doctor is in house, I must be their scribe-aren't people paid to do that, in gap year jobs? I went into medicine as I like to help patients which I definitely still do, but now I'm worrying about the hierarchy in the field, lack of respect until being significantly established...etc
It's a busy practice. We see patients q15 minutes. My preceptor has me write notes for everyone I see-and will sometimes make me see the next patient before I'm done w/ notes for the previous one. She leaves after the last patient is seen and makes me stay late (1-2 hrs) and finish the notes. At this point she herself, writes very few notes-I do the bulk of it.
She has this policy (note, NOT a school policy) that anytime any doctor in that clinic is in-house (4 total), I must be too. Which means, if she opens shop at 8, I must be there at 8-but when she leaves at 4 or 5, if another doctor (who began at 11 AM) stays until 8 PM-then so must I, writing notes for the other doctor. She opens at 6 to leave at 2 sometimes-and I must help her from 6 AM-2 PM, then the other doctors until whenever clinic closes.
On top of it, as I'm writing notes, she will pimp me extensively on minute details from online, or very specific "zebra-like" clinical scenarios beyond med student scope. It is overwhelming. I barely have time to think. Assigns me tons of readings too. at least 1/d.
On top of this...got shelf to study for.
I'm burned out and beginning to feel depressed and apathetic about just about everything. Do students deserve such little respect that we're literally used as unpaid labor? I know it's good to see patients/learn but at this point the practice is using me as free labor with this policy that anytime any doctor is in house, I must be their scribe-aren't people paid to do that, in gap year jobs? I went into medicine as I like to help patients which I definitely still do, but now I'm worrying about the hierarchy in the field, lack of respect until being significantly established...etc
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