For the most part, getting pimped doesn't bother me too much, as long it isn't done in a way that is ridiculously demeaning, which defeats the purpose of it, in my opinion. I was already somewhat exposed to it during the first two years of medical school. I find that I tend to remember what I was pimped on pretty well and it makes me want to investigate the topic further, when I can. Also, the questions asked tend to help me think about what kinds of questions I should be asking myself when seeing a patient presenting a certain way.
I just started my clinical rotations. So far there hasn't been a whole lot of pimping as such, although every once in a while, when I present a particularly interesting patient, my attending will throw in a question or two. About every one out of two times, I will get it wrong, or not know the answer at all, so the questioning stops pretty quick, sometimes to my embarrassment. My attending is pretty nice about it and is very encouraging, although, I sometimes imagine him thinking that I must not know very much (which is true). Sometimes, I will get the answer wrong, only to look it up and find out that I knew what it was all along, I just couldn't recall it in the moment with someone pressuring me on the spot. I really wish I could stuff more into my brain, but the days are full and at night I'm lucky if I can get an hour of reading in (very tired and just want to crash out).
There's so much to learn, so little time. I know I'm never going to learn it all, but I'll settle for the basics right now. I feel like the only thing I'm even remotely good at right now is talking to patients. I feel so distant sometimes from being able to competently come up with an assessment and plan. I often don't have a clue how to pin-point my questioning during my H&P. I'm all over the place until my attending comes in and asks two or three poignant questions to the patient and it's all over. Heck, I'd love to, for example, be able to examine a patient with pitting edema of the lower extremities and remember, in the moment, how to grade the severity of the edema and immediately know that I need to r/o DVT and possible PE, etc. I guess all that will come. In the meantime, pimping helps focus the learning.
