Hello everyone,
I'm an intern at a fairly busy academic Psychiatry residency program. We have lost two people out of our program due to family issues (mid year). Our program has been completely unprepared for this and our call schedule has also reflected this. We have also lost a good amount of faculty and we no longer have set didactics. I feel like this program is no longer of any academic quality but rather just an excuse to move the meat for lazy ancillary staff.
I have done all my off-service rotations and I can definitely tell that the program is not organized compared to other departments. I really am getting sick of the way our lack of residents is being handled and the fact that the program administration is not doing anything to help manage the lack of manpower. A good number of our faculty has also left because of pay issues due to the institution/hospital suffering financially.
I'm feeling very scared that the program may not face probation soon for being so poorly managed. To top it off we have a very difficult and unreasonable program director who believes that we should just shut our mouth and not even think about complaining about anything on our chest. This is evident by this person not even making any conscious efforts to address the fact that we are down two residents. I am dreading finishing intern year and moving on to second year at this point because I know that the workload is going to be more concentrated on each resident. We are all lying about our duty hours so that we don't get hounded for violating hours and being inefficient.
In summary, I want to wrap up this intern year and find a second year spot somewhere else. I feel very scared about making mistakes with lack of supervision and the fact that I'm so overworked with the number of patients I have that I'm putting in wrong orders for patients.
I don't want to screw over my co-interns and I don't want to give my program director whiff of my intentions because I don't trust the guy, but I cannot see myself progressing in this program in a comfortable fashion without jeopardizing my sanity and patient care. I want advice on how you guys would recommend trying to look for a position while being discrete about it.
I'm an intern at a fairly busy academic Psychiatry residency program. We have lost two people out of our program due to family issues (mid year). Our program has been completely unprepared for this and our call schedule has also reflected this. We have also lost a good amount of faculty and we no longer have set didactics. I feel like this program is no longer of any academic quality but rather just an excuse to move the meat for lazy ancillary staff.
I have done all my off-service rotations and I can definitely tell that the program is not organized compared to other departments. I really am getting sick of the way our lack of residents is being handled and the fact that the program administration is not doing anything to help manage the lack of manpower. A good number of our faculty has also left because of pay issues due to the institution/hospital suffering financially.
I'm feeling very scared that the program may not face probation soon for being so poorly managed. To top it off we have a very difficult and unreasonable program director who believes that we should just shut our mouth and not even think about complaining about anything on our chest. This is evident by this person not even making any conscious efforts to address the fact that we are down two residents. I am dreading finishing intern year and moving on to second year at this point because I know that the workload is going to be more concentrated on each resident. We are all lying about our duty hours so that we don't get hounded for violating hours and being inefficient.
In summary, I want to wrap up this intern year and find a second year spot somewhere else. I feel very scared about making mistakes with lack of supervision and the fact that I'm so overworked with the number of patients I have that I'm putting in wrong orders for patients.
I don't want to screw over my co-interns and I don't want to give my program director whiff of my intentions because I don't trust the guy, but I cannot see myself progressing in this program in a comfortable fashion without jeopardizing my sanity and patient care. I want advice on how you guys would recommend trying to look for a position while being discrete about it.