to add to all the resident dating threads...
i'm currently a rising MS3, about to start rotations in a month. i've been dating a resident for the past 6 months, started out really liking him etc but don't think it's going to work anymore and am trying to find the nerve to tell him.. except.. i'm afraid that breaking up with him will impact me negatively next year for evaluations. (let's just say it definitely won't be a clean, amicable breakup.) he's in a surgical subspecialty, so won't be in any of my core rotations (for surgery, gen surg makes up the core, and we get to briefly rotate thru a few subspecialties as "electives" that don't really affect getting honors), but i'm afraid that any negative gossip that might ensue could hurt me. do you guys think i'm being overly paranoid or is this a legitimate concern?
i'm currently a rising MS3, about to start rotations in a month. i've been dating a resident for the past 6 months, started out really liking him etc but don't think it's going to work anymore and am trying to find the nerve to tell him.. except.. i'm afraid that breaking up with him will impact me negatively next year for evaluations. (let's just say it definitely won't be a clean, amicable breakup.) he's in a surgical subspecialty, so won't be in any of my core rotations (for surgery, gen surg makes up the core, and we get to briefly rotate thru a few subspecialties as "electives" that don't really affect getting honors), but i'm afraid that any negative gossip that might ensue could hurt me. do you guys think i'm being overly paranoid or is this a legitimate concern?