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I am a resident at very clinically-slanted program...no so academic. There is a dearth of research and teaching is also pretty, uh, laid back. We recently had an RRC site visit which resulted in several "warnings."
One warning was in reference to didactics. Our didactic sessions consist of a one hour presentation weekly which is entirely resident led. That's it. I mean, we get radbio and physics on top of that..but in terms of clinical didactics we really don't get ANY formal didactic lectures from attendings.
So it turns out the RRC stipulates that there is an 80/20 rule. 80% of lectures are supposed to be given by attendings. So here comes the moral dilemma part:
Our PD has requested that when residents present, on paper we should make it look like the attending presented. So yeah, she's asking us to, uh, bend the truth?
The problem is, from her perspective, it will be impossible to change our program overnight and by the next RRC visit if things don't change, they could take serious action. So the best interest of the residents is to make everything look nice and tidy on paper. However, I don't feel good about that. But I also don't like the alternative with the corresponding consequences..
Any thoughts?
One warning was in reference to didactics. Our didactic sessions consist of a one hour presentation weekly which is entirely resident led. That's it. I mean, we get radbio and physics on top of that..but in terms of clinical didactics we really don't get ANY formal didactic lectures from attendings.
So it turns out the RRC stipulates that there is an 80/20 rule. 80% of lectures are supposed to be given by attendings. So here comes the moral dilemma part:
Our PD has requested that when residents present, on paper we should make it look like the attending presented. So yeah, she's asking us to, uh, bend the truth?
The problem is, from her perspective, it will be impossible to change our program overnight and by the next RRC visit if things don't change, they could take serious action. So the best interest of the residents is to make everything look nice and tidy on paper. However, I don't feel good about that. But I also don't like the alternative with the corresponding consequences..
Any thoughts?