It was a messed up situation this month.
I'm a psych resident doing this elective at the children's hospital this month. It's all clinics during the day.
I started the rotation after receiving my rotation schedule 2 weeks ago.
2 weeks in, during my specialty didatics, a colleague said that she was asked to do several weekend ER shifts during the winter when she was doing the same rotation.
This time, no one emailed me about the ER shifts and I was NOT aware about it until the end of last week
I emailed two people: 1) my rotation supervisor and 2) the chief resident in charge of ER schedule.
I got two different response:
From my rotation supervisor: You don't have to do it. They now only have peds residents doing it. You can do it if you really want to.
From the chief resident: Yes, you have to do a couple shifts. We couldn't put you on the list because the coordinator in charge of off service rotators is no longer working and we had no idea about you. I will put you on the schedule.
At the end, the chief resident added 2 evening shifts for me this week in order to make up for lost time. She can't give me any weekend shifts because I already requested my vacation months ago and booked my flights.
So I showed up today at the ER today after my clinics. I finished seeing my first patient in over 30min because I didn't know where everything is. The attending was confused why that is, especially given that it's 2 weeks INTO a rotation, "this isn't your first day here, is it?"
I explained the whole situation to her and showed her the emails.
She was like, "We don't have elective residents do shifts now. I was confused too why a psych resident would show up here. They even put you in the fast track section where you see nothing but mild viral syndrome and minor injuries. They should've put you in cat 3 or 4 where you will often see psych cases. You won't be helping us much here and you won't learn anything useful for you. Beside, you have clinic during the days.. we can't have you stay til 1-2 am and have you work at 8am the next day. Go home"
I'm not in trouble right? How should I tell the chief resident?
I'm a psych resident doing this elective at the children's hospital this month. It's all clinics during the day.
I started the rotation after receiving my rotation schedule 2 weeks ago.
2 weeks in, during my specialty didatics, a colleague said that she was asked to do several weekend ER shifts during the winter when she was doing the same rotation.
This time, no one emailed me about the ER shifts and I was NOT aware about it until the end of last week
I emailed two people: 1) my rotation supervisor and 2) the chief resident in charge of ER schedule.
I got two different response:
From my rotation supervisor: You don't have to do it. They now only have peds residents doing it. You can do it if you really want to.
From the chief resident: Yes, you have to do a couple shifts. We couldn't put you on the list because the coordinator in charge of off service rotators is no longer working and we had no idea about you. I will put you on the schedule.
At the end, the chief resident added 2 evening shifts for me this week in order to make up for lost time. She can't give me any weekend shifts because I already requested my vacation months ago and booked my flights.
So I showed up today at the ER today after my clinics. I finished seeing my first patient in over 30min because I didn't know where everything is. The attending was confused why that is, especially given that it's 2 weeks INTO a rotation, "this isn't your first day here, is it?"
I explained the whole situation to her and showed her the emails.
She was like, "We don't have elective residents do shifts now. I was confused too why a psych resident would show up here. They even put you in the fast track section where you see nothing but mild viral syndrome and minor injuries. They should've put you in cat 3 or 4 where you will often see psych cases. You won't be helping us much here and you won't learn anything useful for you. Beside, you have clinic during the days.. we can't have you stay til 1-2 am and have you work at 8am the next day. Go home"
I'm not in trouble right? How should I tell the chief resident?
