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Why do cleekships turn some people into soulless, cutthroat-competitive beasts?
I'm on a clerkship for a field I want to go into with a friend of mine who wants to go in an unrelated field. Because I want to go into this field, I'm going out of my way to prep and have gotten very positive feedback so far. The thing is, it feels like my friend will undercut me at every turn. If the attending pimps me on a question I get wrong, he'll say the answer a second after the attending does to make it look like he knew. He's offered the resident to look thing up for my patients (which is a line I NEVER cross with another student). He tries to take all the new patients without trying to negotiate. If we're both with the resident, he'll ask 4839595 questions so I can't get a word in edgewise. Like WTF? How do I deal with this without becoming a competitive jerk?
It just pisses me off all the more because A) this field actually matter for me, whereas it doesn't for him and B) I've answered his ?s and tried to be as collegial as possible
I'm on a clerkship for a field I want to go into with a friend of mine who wants to go in an unrelated field. Because I want to go into this field, I'm going out of my way to prep and have gotten very positive feedback so far. The thing is, it feels like my friend will undercut me at every turn. If the attending pimps me on a question I get wrong, he'll say the answer a second after the attending does to make it look like he knew. He's offered the resident to look thing up for my patients (which is a line I NEVER cross with another student). He tries to take all the new patients without trying to negotiate. If we're both with the resident, he'll ask 4839595 questions so I can't get a word in edgewise. Like WTF? How do I deal with this without becoming a competitive jerk?
It just pisses me off all the more because A) this field actually matter for me, whereas it doesn't for him and B) I've answered his ?s and tried to be as collegial as possible