Having problems with a advising physician?

[oliviastudent]

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Well I'm doing clinical rotations and I really believe that one of the advising physicians isn't too fond of me...👎 Anyway to cope with this? After he told me "I can make you look stupid anywhere", I knew this would be a loooong rotation.

Any advice?

 

[J1515]

Well I'm doing clinical rotations and I really believe that one of the advising physicians isn't too fond of me...👎 Anyway to cope with this? After he told me "I can make you look stupid anywhere", I knew this would be a loooong rotation.

Any advice?

Yeah...grow a thicker skin. He was bragging about how knowledgeable he is and could've said a lot worse.

 

[Old_Mil]

Well I'm doing clinical rotations and I really believe that one of the advising physicians isn't too fond of me...👎 Anyway to cope with this? After he told me "I can make you look stupid anywhere", I knew this would be a loooong rotation.

Any advice?

Take solace in the fact that he said "can", and not "will".

 

[Bacchus]

This sounds extremely close to what one of the attendings said on camera at Arkansas Children's on the NBC special just produced...hmmm.

 

[njbmd]

Well I'm doing clinical rotations and I really believe that one of the advising physicians isn't too fond of me...👎 Anyway to cope with this? After he told me "I can make you look stupid anywhere", I knew this would be a loooong rotation.

Any advice?

Every adviser that doesn't "blow sunshine up your anal opening" and isn't your "biggest fan" isn't your enemy or a problem. As others have said, suck it up and get your learning mastered. You are paying for the education and not for ego stroking so get busy learning. You may find that you can learn quite a bit from this person. In short, it doesn't matter if Satan is doing the teaching if the learning is outstanding. You get one shot at not screwing up so don't expect "hand-holding" or "warm fuzzy love". If you need those things, get them outside of medical school. Sometimes "looking stupid" can be a good thing because it keeps you from actually "being dangerous".

 

[Nanon]

I'm a first year, but I had the unique privilege of working as a research analyst in a pretty hardcore surgery department. I count some of those surgeons as friends of mine. Recently, I was talking to one of these friends about doing a sub-i in that hospital, and I said, jokingly, "Be nice to me." She said, in all seriousness. "I will if you don't kill my patients."

All this to point out that everything njbmd said is true. You are there to learn how to not kill people, not to get warm fuzzies from your attending. And from what I've seen, residents who focus on learning - and not on their relationships with their attendings - tend to have better relationships with their attendings.

Good luck.

 

[NTF]

I understand the harshness when teaching and lighting a fire under people's butt. I was dressed down by an attending (I'm an M1) while volunteering at the student-run clinic in front of everyone for acting insecure. It wasn't fun and it smarted, but he was trying to teach me something ("If you're so focused on your own inadequacies then you're not focusing on the patient and you're going to miss crucial findings"). So that I get.

But what exactly is the pedagogical function of "I can make you look stupid anywhere"?

PS But yeah I agree that you ultimately just suck it up and try to learn everything you can from anyone you can - even from jerks.