"Quiet student" and its implications

[Hard24Get]

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That's unacceptable. In my humble opinion you should not ask a student that question unless you're prepared to respond, "Ah, <blank> is a wonderful field" to whatever they say. Where does he get off? When I started my gyn onc rotation I was fairly certain I was going into medicine and was asked that question. The fellow responded that medicine was great and didn't treat me any differently. By the end of the rotation I had enjoyed gyn onc so much I decided to come back for a sub-I this coming year. If he had responded like yours had it probably would have turned me off the whole field...just a bone-headed thing to say...

My last day of a medicine elective, the attending and fellow took me to lunch and said "The subject of this lunch is why you shouldn't go into emergency medicine" (I was pretty irritated, but the food was good 🙂 ).

 

[Blue Frog]

My last day of a medicine elective, the attending and fellow took me to lunch and said "The subject of this lunch is why you shouldn't go into emergency medicine" (I was pretty irritated, but the food was good 🙂 ).

I;m curious as to what his/her reasoning was. ...and if you protested to any of the comments.

 

[Hard24Get]

I;m curious as to what his/her reasoning was. ...and if you protested to any of the comments.

Um, lemme see.... They talked about how I liked pathophysiology too much to not see how the disease ends (I could've said I liked pathophysioogy too much not to see how the disease begins, but instead I pointed out I could always follow-up of seleced pts). They also said it was too much rushing, so it's stressful and you don't do complete workups, leading to substandard care. I did point out that for those that need more care or workup, we get them admitted. I did not mention that just because they get stressed out by multi-tasking doesn't mean everyone else does. They also whined that I am too good to go into EM, because good people should go into IM, but later complained that the docs in the ED have to be really good to do all that and not miss anything 😕

I'm sure I forgot some stuff, but I need to head off to a symposium that will talk about how I can match in EM 😉

 

[ericdamiansean]

That's unacceptable. In my humble opinion you should not ask a student that question unless you're prepared to respond, "Ah, <blank> is a wonderful field" to whatever they say. Where does he get off? When I started my gyn onc rotation I was fairly certain I was going into medicine and was asked that question. The fellow responded that medicine was great and didn't treat me any differently. By the end of the rotation I had enjoyed gyn onc so much I decided to come back for a sub-I this coming year. If he had responded like yours had it probably would have turned me off the whole field...just a bone-headed thing to say...

That's right..I know alot of people who hated their rotations due to the attendings and vowed not to take that specialty up, but somehow, meeting nicer people in the future changed their mind again