Have you had residents or attendings ignore you in the clinical years when you say you’re going into radiology?

[odyssey2]

I had a surgical resident who told me on my first day I shouldn’t bother taking histories since I’m going into radiology, and an OB GYN who basically forgot I existed once I told her what I was interested in. Have you had any similar experiences in med school or even in your prelim year?

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[redalert]

I get picked on at conferences to read cxr/CT scans as a prelim going into rads. Your preceptors probably thought they were doing you a favor by making it easy for you (and for themselves). Hopefully with Covid your clinical grades are now p/f, but if not just don't tell people you're interested in rads.

 

[Ho0v-man]

Yes. I think with the exception of like 2 rotations, I felt completely written off after expressing interest in rads. It’s weird but it’s like people think I’m just automatically disinterested in the rotation once I tell them that.

 

[7331poas]

I had a surgical resident who told me on my first day I shouldn’t bother taking histories since I’m going into radiology, and an OB GYN who basically forgot I existed once I told her what I was interested in. Have you had any similar experiences in med school or even in your prelim year?

Absolutely and its amazing. Sometimes I even volunteer that I am going into rads so they will expect less.

 

[Neopolymath]

Absolutely and its amazing. Sometimes I even volunteer that I am going into rads so they will expect less.

I thought you were NS? Saw the light lol?

 

[7331poas]

I thought you were NS? Saw the light lol?

realized I wasn't going to get 10 publications by ERAS submission lmao

Nah but on a more serious note, DR is definitely the path for me after thinking over things.

 

[Neopolymath]

realized I wasn't going to get 10 publications by ERAS submission lmao

Nah but on a more serious note, DR is definitely the path for me after thinking over things.

Best of luck!

 

[LittleFoot]

When I was in Med School I expressed my interest in Radiology during my first IM rotation and got incessantly bullied by one of my attendings because of it, haha. Never again.

 

[odyssey2]

When I was in Med School I expressed my interest in Radiology during my first IM rotation and got incessantly bullied by one of my attendings because of it, haha. Never again.

What did he say?

 

[LittleFoot]

What did he say?

It was more of a passive-aggressive type of bullying that lasted the entire 4 weeks. I just remember her saying stuff like "Don't you have to be a good medical student to get into Radiology?" lol. Tbh I didn't knock the rotation out of the park but it definitely was unnecessary and I learned my lesson the hard way.

 

[AzBasRad]

When I was in Med School I expressed my interest in Radiology during my first IM rotation and got incessantly bullied by one of my attendings because of it, haha. Never again.

In my MS3 surgical rotation, I said I was undecided and wanted to explore all of my options. In all others, I was IM/primary care/exploring all options and wanted to learn as much as I could. Everyone pretty much left me alone.

 

[Clean7795]

I was never really treated very differently from anyone else except the attendings might have done a bit of pimping on some imaging/CXR. I was keen and generally interested in everything, which at least for attendings generally outweighed other things when it came to teaching.

If anything a few attendings in primary care tried to persuade me my personality was a better fit for primary care rather than what they thought radiologists were like.

 

[odyssey2]

I was never really treated very differently from anyone else except the attendings might have done a bit of pimping on some imaging/CXR. I was keen and generally interested in everything, which at least for attendings generally outweighed other things when it came to teaching.

If anything a few attendings in primary care tried to persuade me my personality was a better fit for primary care rather than what they thought radiologists were like.

Antisocial weirdos I’m guessing?

 

[LittleFoot]

I was never really treated very differently from anyone else except the attendings might have done a bit of pimping on some imaging/CXR. I was keen and generally interested in everything, which at least for attendings generally outweighed other things when it came to teaching.

If anything a few attendings in primary care tried to persuade me my personality was a better fit for primary care rather than what they thought radiologists were like.

I'm starting to think that my experience was not the norm and I just got unlucky with that specific attending.

 

[Ask Jeeves MD]

I’ve been ignored by attendings who had no idea I was applying rads. I’ve also been ignored by surgery attendings when I was interested in surgery. I think most people are just busy and don’t care.

 

[Steve_Zissou]

Every attending in rotations that I have told I am interested in radiology has tried to relate their specialty back to radiology and give me ideas of what they want from radiologists. I also asked for these things and stressed "I want to understand what you do and how you do it so I can be a better asset in the future." Only one that ignored me was OB Gyn, can't help that.

 

[Neopolymath]

They all told me I made a great decision except for one guy worried about AI and outsourcing lol.

 

[Dave1980]

I wish they would have ignored me.

 

[AnxietyMonster]

Most are positive. Some lookwarm to rads. Some say I should consider their field since I'm good with people. 1 said bots are gonna take my job.

My classmates who were on surgery who said they wanted to do surgery def got worked harder than I did, but I feel like they still wanted me to learn. IM i feel like they took me seriously because they know I have to do an intern/TY year.

Psychiatrist laughed at my assumed lack of interest the first day but I think eventually understood I was actually still interested in it even if I didn't want to do it.