DO residents working with MD students

[padastra]

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If they are douches, then make them your beetches. Plenty of options - including making them stay till sign out, requiring them to pre-round, making them grab numbers on all patients (can peds count? hah), IGNORING THEM when they ask you for help/questions/knowledge/signing orders/directions. Sorry to be sadistic, but I cringe to see your mild insecurity regarding a bunch of twats.

...or you can be professional, and pull them aside midway through the rotation to give some verbal feedback.

 

[caffeinemia]

...or you can be professional, and pull them aside midway through the rotation to give some verbal feedback.

Boring...

 

[padastra]

Boring...

Fair enough, but then don't pretend arrogance and douchiness are limited to medical students.

 

[caffeinemia]

Who's pretending. Douchy med students become douchy residents become douchy attendings.

I'm advocating an eye for an eye policy.

 

[MLT2MT2DO]

This touches on an interesting related tangent; how do you, as a medical student, respond when someone is teaching you something you believe is manifestly incorrect.

And it can be tough treading the line between genuinely asking the teacher (resident, attending, etc) to provide the literature that supports their position to improve your medical knowledge base, and sounding like a know-it-all student with no worldly experience to back up your position.

There is no way I can keep up with all of the advancements in medical knowledge in all of the fields that my line of work (emergency medicine) overlaps. So from time to time students may have just come from another rotation and know about some new therapy or recommendation that I'm not familiar with. And as such my information may be outdated. As an academic attending I learn a lot from the students and residents as well and they help keep my knowledge base up to date. So the learning goes both ways.

So how do you go about approaching your teachers, and how have those approaches been received?

I actually have been using SDN during my 3rd year to clarify these questions.