Do you end up making new friends on rotations?

[alisepeep]

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So I got put in a city far far away from my school for rotations..and I wont know anyone in that area. Do you guys make friends on rotations/ meet new people to hang out with? Or are you too busy for that?

 

[cabinbuilder]

So I got put in a city far far away from my school for rotations..and I wont know anyone in that area. Do you guys make friends on rotations/ meet new people to hang out with? Or are you too busy for that?

Of course, unless you are total social misfit and make everyone crazy.😀

 

[secants]

Surprisingly yes. When you have to work with a smaller number of people as a team for a common goal, you inevitably develop some camaraderie that usually leads to socializing outside the hospital.

 

[JediZero]

Just depends on your personality and the environment. I'm in a similar situation, and I tend to keep to myself, so I haven't really spent any time outside clinic with anyone I work with.

My girlfriend, on the other hand (same year, shipped to the same town) wound up making friends with some of the MAs at her FP rotation and hangs out with them sometimes. Opportunities are out there for the making!

 

[evilbooyaa]

There's a medical student lounge in the hospital I rotate at. Multiple med schools send students through it. I would say 75% or so are friendly normal people, 15% are friendly, shy people, and 10% are pains in the ass. I stick to the 75% most of the time, and would consider most of them somewhere between acquaintances and friends. A small group within the 75% I would consider good friends, having known them for ~7 months.

 

[Gfliptastic]

To the extent of cordiality yes. To the extent of being invited out to dinner or after work functions yes. To the extent of adding people to Facebook, depends.

A lot can be said for camaraderie. Even attendings, practicing physicians, and anyone else you deal w/ a regular basis during your weeks of a rotation.

If you want a LOR to have some true value to it, you will talk to the people who can write it. It's NOT just a show of your intellectual prowess, cuz in the end, anyone can get a plain letter that just talks about clinical stuff. They get to know you better as a person in everyday chit-chat.

My preceptors ask me to non-work events. Attendings and docs will invite you to sit w/ them in the hospital cafeteria (yeah, it can be like high school all again LOL).

So you will make friends. Now are they the kind you confide your deepest secrets. Probably not everyone. And it's probably NOT on a 1-on-1 basis cuz that's kinda sketchy. But will the folks in 3rd Fl East invite you out to stuff after a couple of weeks of getting to know you?? Probably! (Unless you are a freakazoid). Don't worry! 🙂

 

[ZGX]

Most definitely
Especially with the ones you are doing the same rotation with

I wouldn't understand why anyone wouldn't unless your a total Cluster A or C

After all you never know who might give some golden advice

 

[viper930]

Not really any long term friends. It's not because there's not enough time, but more that most medical students are pretty petty and not very well adjusted.

 

[ferning]

Just depends on your personality and the environment. I'm in a similar situation, and I tend to keep to myself, so I haven't really spent any time outside clinic with anyone I work with.

My girlfriend, on the other hand (same year, shipped to the same town) wound up making friends with some of the MAs at her FP rotation and hangs out with them sometimes. Opportunities are out there for the making!

Dude she's getting railed by these new friends why you type your series of unhelpful advice columns. Uninspired to.

 

[Kahreek]

I make friends with new coffee machines every rotation.

 

[shadowfox87]

It depends. If your rotation is near your Step 2 ck time, then probably not. Though some of the best friends I've made in med school have been in rotations.

 

[Doctor Bob]

Dude she's getting railed by these new friends why you type your series of unhelpful advice columns. Uninspired to.

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Umm... so what's the deal with you and JediZero? For the past few days I've noticed in many different threads that JZ posts something and you follow it with a snarky comment...
Any reason?

 

[JediZero]

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Umm... so what's the deal with you and JediZero? For the past few days I've noticed in many different threads that JZ posts something and you follow it with a snarky comment...
Any reason?

Mr. Ferning here started a thread on 'worst treatment on rotations' and I explained why his complaint was imagined, unfair and potentially harmful to the accused. He responded by ripping in to me and anyone else who disagreed. Then for good measure, he decided to go through my post history and reply to my old messages when feasible. If you'll notice, most of these posts are zombie threads from, like, six months ago. /eyeroll

 

[tiedyeddog]

Dude she's getting railed by these new friends why you type your series of unhelpful advice columns. Uninspired to.

You seem maladjusted, pal. You need help.

 

[Cranial ALLDAY]

always become friends with the nurses! they will help you in clinic and make you look smart, plus some extra if you're lucky bro