Do my intern year evaluations matter for my advanced program?
Started by cassyfrog
Different institutions? doesnt matter. graduate and move on Same institution? would try a bit harder as word can spread easily
Stop doing the bare minimum! It’s a bad habit to get in. Look for things your current patients have that you will still need to know how to manage in your specialty
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It's a different program but I believe my TY will send a packet of sorts to my advanced program. Not exactly sure what details will be included or if the PD will even care to read them.
Yeah, it is a bad habit and I'm praying it won't transfer to next year when I'm *supposed* to be doing what I chose to do. It's just been hard for me to motivate myself to learn about orthopedic surgery or pediatrics or ob/gyn.
Yeah, it is a bad habit and I'm praying it won't transfer to next year when I'm *supposed* to be doing what I chose to do. It's just been hard for me to motivate myself to learn about orthopedic surgery or pediatrics or ob/gyn.
You will be fine. Don’t fail anything, don’t get into trouble, but otherwise enjoy this time off because once you start residency it will be balls to the wall
Not an issue, no one cares about something they’re not interested in just don’t fail and you’ll be fine
Yeah already matched. Thanks everyone for the reassurance.
I don’t think it’s normal for a TY program to send anything to your advanced program. As long as you graduate and get your intern diploma…no one will care and your performance during intern year will never matter again.
Not a derm but happened to catch this post and can offer a unique perspective. I did a ty, and like you I coasted with very average reviews. My goal was to pass and party since I knew it was my last chance before my real residency hit. I never anticipated having any future affiliations with the hospital or physicians there as it was not a geography I ever saw myself working in. Fast forward almost 20 years later and I'm now on staff at this hospital...and I thank my lucky stars many of the colleagues I'm working with don't remember I was the pass and party intern under them at one point! I got lucky, so I'd just caution you to be careful if there's any chance you could end up at this facility years later.
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You never know.
Professionalism is doing the best even when nobody is looking. If someone is so lazy on purpose during their transitional year, who is to say they won't eventually give a patient cyanide when nobody is looking (usually not but this is a slippery slope of bad behavior).
Knowing other fields well is part of being a good doctor. I learned some great orthopedic surgery and was even allowed to be primary surgeon on a few cases.
I don’t think it will hurt you at your advanced program. It’s still a terrible look. We had one of those interns the year (derm prelim) before I showed up for my intern year. He was astoundingly lazy to the point of being unethical. He ruined it for every intern that came after him. We were all watched, extremely closely and treated poorly because his laziness had such a profound negative impact. My understanding is he actually did cross enough of a line that the intern PD reached out to his advanced program, but that could have been a false rumor.
Can you give examples of astoundingly lazy
On an internal medicine rotation he would claim he saw patients in the morning before the attending then during rounds it was discovered he would never see the patient prior to presenting to the attending??
Correct. Would just review their chart in the EMR.
