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There is a google form to make submissions on programs and hospitals that are abusing residents. I encourage everyone to contribute to it, so we have a list of these programs. We need to document this for future applicants, and so programs are under pressure to not **** us over. SUBMISSIONS: Tracking Abuses in Healthcare
Results of the spreadsheet can be viewed here:
Across the United States, we hear stories of how residents are subtly threatened by their program directors if they refuse to see COVID patients without PPE, or coaxed into going on sick leave if they are unwilling to see patients without PPE because they’re “immunocompromised”.
Residents, nurses, and even attendings are being threatened with being called unprofessional for speaking out. Some go as far as accusing us of not caring about patients, by bringing up PPE concerns (aka we’re selfish?). And then, we are guilted, when PDs and administrators bring up the Hippocratic oath to justify throwing us into a war. This thread and this mini-project I hope can serve to reduce that barrier.
The anecdotal stories I hear the most often come from medical trainees in marginalized communities, specifically those serving in hot zones, community programs, and international medical graduates. Specifically the East Coast programs is where I hear the most stories from, especially those programs that have a majority IMG workforce.
We need to be able to share these stories on twitter, and have a place where we can document these violations publically -- overwhelm the ACGME with the stories of abuse. Use the media to highlight these abuses to put pressure on the ACGME.
Given the high stakes nature of where we are at in our careers, please do not identify your program if it will get you in trouble (region would work). But, if you can do it safely, please do name your programs. Feel free to share visual evidence, such as screenshots of e-mails your PDs have sent, if you can safely without violating HIPAA.
I see this as an opportunity to publically shame programs that are not treating their residents well, to help the next year’s batch avoid these programs. Simply said, they don’t deserve us.
The goal is to use social media to help make these stories go viral among the MedEd community on twitter, and highlight our voices to the ACGME and greater medical community to be in a position to answer for contributing to the creation of an unsafe work environment.
I realize this may seem like a hopeless endeavor. But our stories must be shared. Our stories need a voice. The world should understand how we are suffering too, to provide basic medical care. My goal is to convey that no one can attach their names to these stories like nurses and other attendings because if we do so, we lose out on our careers.
If there’s positive stories of where your administration/PD has had your back, share those too!
If you are nervous using your public ID to post, please feel free to PM and I can post it.
We need to represent ourselves. This is the best way.
All submissions are being updated manually so if you do not see your post immediately, please be patient. There's a lot of blank submissions, so we thought this was best to keep the spreadsheet clean and not have a lot of nonsense.
On a side note, this post was taken off of r/residency on reddit. I hope the same would not happen here. We need a voice, and we need the world to see what is happening to us.
There is a google form to make submissions on programs and hospitals that are abusing residents. I encourage everyone to contribute to it, so we have a list of these programs. We need to document this for future applicants, and so programs are under pressure to not **** us over. SUBMISSIONS: Tracking Abuses in Healthcare
Results of the spreadsheet can be viewed here:
Across the United States, we hear stories of how residents are subtly threatened by their program directors if they refuse to see COVID patients without PPE, or coaxed into going on sick leave if they are unwilling to see patients without PPE because they’re “immunocompromised”.
Residents, nurses, and even attendings are being threatened with being called unprofessional for speaking out. Some go as far as accusing us of not caring about patients, by bringing up PPE concerns (aka we’re selfish?). And then, we are guilted, when PDs and administrators bring up the Hippocratic oath to justify throwing us into a war. This thread and this mini-project I hope can serve to reduce that barrier.
The anecdotal stories I hear the most often come from medical trainees in marginalized communities, specifically those serving in hot zones, community programs, and international medical graduates. Specifically the East Coast programs is where I hear the most stories from, especially those programs that have a majority IMG workforce.
We need to be able to share these stories on twitter, and have a place where we can document these violations publically -- overwhelm the ACGME with the stories of abuse. Use the media to highlight these abuses to put pressure on the ACGME.
Given the high stakes nature of where we are at in our careers, please do not identify your program if it will get you in trouble (region would work). But, if you can do it safely, please do name your programs. Feel free to share visual evidence, such as screenshots of e-mails your PDs have sent, if you can safely without violating HIPAA.
I see this as an opportunity to publically shame programs that are not treating their residents well, to help the next year’s batch avoid these programs. Simply said, they don’t deserve us.
The goal is to use social media to help make these stories go viral among the MedEd community on twitter, and highlight our voices to the ACGME and greater medical community to be in a position to answer for contributing to the creation of an unsafe work environment.
I realize this may seem like a hopeless endeavor. But our stories must be shared. Our stories need a voice. The world should understand how we are suffering too, to provide basic medical care. My goal is to convey that no one can attach their names to these stories like nurses and other attendings because if we do so, we lose out on our careers.
If there’s positive stories of where your administration/PD has had your back, share those too!
If you are nervous using your public ID to post, please feel free to PM and I can post it.
We need to represent ourselves. This is the best way.
All submissions are being updated manually so if you do not see your post immediately, please be patient. There's a lot of blank submissions, so we thought this was best to keep the spreadsheet clean and not have a lot of nonsense.
On a side note, this post was taken off of r/residency on reddit. I hope the same would not happen here. We need a voice, and we need the world to see what is happening to us.
