BrainyBaby111
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I wouldn't do that. I don't think evaluators would respond well to you trying to influence what they put in their evals. I'd just put this behind you and focus on presenting yourself as best as you can so you can get the best evals possible organically.All comments are put in and nothing is edited. Could I ask the future rotations to comment about my professionalism and then have a bunch of evaluations that say I am professional vs this one incident which I believe to be an unfair evaluation that says I need to work on it? How would it look if all my other evaluations have a sentence that comments on my professionalism (assuming they are all good)?
If you literally never worked with this person, then I would talk to your clerkship director about having the comment removed.Nope, never saw my evaluator
It’s one comment of many, try not to over-reactNope, never saw my evaluator, I was with other doctors who loved me the entire time. I was definitely not expecting this. What happens if I ask my future evaluators to comment on my professionalism and they all say I was professional, how will this one evaluation look?
I don’t recommend that.I agree, I do not want to over react, that's why I am asking to see what others think and make sure my judgment is not irrational. Do you think it would look bad if after every rotation from now on I ask the preceptor to comment on my professionalism?
Yes, it would look bad.Do you think it would look bad if after every rotation from now on I ask the preceptor to comment on my professionalism?
I also generally feel that negative comments should be a trigger for introspection. However, if you LITERALLY never met with the evaluator and they have no basis for this for this feedback, then I really might bring this up with the clerkship and ask them to remove the comment. It may be that they were incorrectly assigned to evaluate you, and that feedback was for another student.Nope, never saw my evaluator, I was with other doctors who loved me the entire time. I was definitely not expecting this. What happens if I ask my future evaluators to comment on my professionalism and they all say I was professional, how will this one evaluation look?
Yea, if you had literally zero contact with this evaluator, it seems pretty obvious that your course of action should be to talk to the clerkship director and have the comment removed. Not only that, the evaluator themself would support having the comment removed, because, again, if they've never met you, they'd realize this whole thing was just a mistake and the eval went to the wrong person. If there's some reason why you believe the evaluator wouldn't react that way, then I find it hard to believe you had zero interaction with them.if you LITERALLY never met with the evaluator and they have no basis for this for this feedback, then I really might bring this up with the clerkship and ask them to remove the comment.
Some schools will let you strike one or two comments from the MSPE prior to submission. Used my strike on an eval saying I was interested in a different specialty than I was applying. Dean used a strike of her own on an eval from a resident who leaves uniformly negative evals for all students ("I know who wrote this, you don't even have to tell me who it was. I'll take it off"). Hopefully you'll have the same option.Thank you everyone. I am just going to take time to reflect and move on, I will try to arrange a meeting with the school but low chances it will be removed. Best I just move on and hope it stays as the only negative comment and ill let residencies judge for themselves if it is a lie or if I am full of hot air and have underlying issues. I think that's the only way to go.
People keep bringing this up. While I understand every program is different, and that some residents get comments stricken (we had the same "well-known problem resident" when I was a med student), I feel pretty confident that few/no programs are going to strike a comment from an attending, let alone what seems to be the primary preceptor, just because it is unfavorable to the student.Some schools will let you strike one or two comments from the MSPE prior to submission.