resigning after ACGME complaint!

[Tenderhearts29]

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I resigned from my malignant residency program. I was miserable! we were doing 12-15 admission in one call for one resident. filed a concern to ACGME after taking a friend's advice!! " I wish I never listened to him" addressing the problems in the program. FYI a compliant was filed against the program last year for the same issues. I am planning to tell my new PD the whole story and what happened. I am just concerned that I will be labeled as a trouble maker and I am not! I wish i knew that filing a concern will take me to this ! I would have just quit.

 

[zihuatanejo]

I resigned 3 weeks ago from my malignant residency program in Chicago, I was miserable! we were doing 12-15 admission in one call for one resident. back in October i filed a concern to ACGME after taking a friend's advice!! " I wish I never listened to him" addressing the problems in the program. FYI a compliant was filed against the program last year for the same issues. Now I did talk to another PD before I resign to apply for a spot again to start again in July as a PGY1. I am planning to tell my new PD the whole story and what happened. I am just concerned that I will be labeled as a trouble maker and I am not! I wish i knew that filing a concern will take me to this ! I would have just quit.
I forgot to add above the PD after he found out it was me while the complaint he met with me and put me on probation (not real probation just internal one) to scare me which did work I was afraid he will start writing me up for all kind of stuff that may ruin my career so I decided to quiet...
Now I have no spot I had 13 interviews and I got into this malignant program by a prematch!
any advice what shall i do! 🙁

I'm sorry this happened to you. If you had looked through previous discussions concerning the ACGME and their resident complaint/concern process, you might have realized that the whole thing is a cruel charade and a cynical scheme to make it look like residency programs can police themselves by having this toothless agency peform this useful role for GME programs. The following sentence needs to be repeated ad nauseum. The purpose of the ACGME is not to help residents or protect them from unfair,abusive, or even discriminatory behavior by residency programs. If the ACGME was really interested in that, it would have had whistleblower protections for folks like yourself who summoned enough courage to file a concern or complaint against an abusive program or program director. In my opinion, the ACGME should stop pretending that it cares about protecting the rights of residents and get rid of their resident concern or complaint process because it does much more harm than good by jeopardizing the careers of naive residents who don't fully consider the risk of their program director retaliating against them for filing the concern or complaint. Good luck in your future endeavors.

 

[Tenderhearts29]

Should I tell the new PD about these whole details and that I filed a concern in my previous program. I really want to be honest with him I know that the truth will set me free. by the way i have excellent evaluation that I showed him when I met with him. My only concern that I will be labeled as trouble maker forever. I was naive!

 

[QofQuimica]

You're still being naive. What you should take away from this experience is that you need to keep your trap shut. The surest way to get your new PD to think you're a troublemaker is to tell him all about how you were a "troublemaker" at your prior program. Just go to your new program, do your work, and avoid calling attention to yourself. The less your new PD knows about what happened at your old program the better.

 

[cowme]

is 12-15 admissions that unheard of? I went to a cushy transitional year residency, and on my ward months, I regularly admitted upwards of 15-20 patients per night

 

[ForbiddenComma]

I'm sorry this happened to you. If you had looked through previous discussions concerning the ACGME and their resident complaint/concern process, you might have realized that the whole thing is a cruel charade and a cynical scheme to make it look like residency programs can police themselves by having this toothless agency peform this useful role for GME programs. The following sentence needs to be repeated ad nauseum. The purpose of the ACGME is not to help residents or protect them from unfair,abusive, or even discriminatory behavior by residency programs. If the ACGME was really interested in that, it would have had whistleblower protections for folks like yourself who summoned enough courage to file a concern or complaint against an abusive program or program director. In my opinion, the ACGME should stop pretending that it cares about protecting the rights of residents and get rid of their resident concern or complaint process because it does much more harm than good by jeopardizing the careers of naive residents who don't fully consider the risk of their program director retaliating against them for filing the concern or complaint. Good luck in your future endeavors.

Amen. I didn't even bother trying this route when I was still in my malignant residency program. I was still a naive babe in the woods at that point who honestly thought that any PD would have to have his residents' best interests at heart (smh), but even I knew what a joke the ACGME was.

It's like expecting the ref at a WWE match to be fair.

To the OP, I am sorry this happened to you, but there is literally no recourse you can take if a malignant PD decides he wants you out, no matter what the reason. Do what the other posters say and keep your mouth shut and fly under the radar at your new program. Good luck!

 

[bala1]

File complaints anonymously>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

[dragonfly99]

That is a lot of admissions per night.
I think if someone is in that situation, especially if you are a foreign medical grad, probably best to just tough it out and not complain, and if it's really really bad, then look for another spot after a few months, to switch/transfer, and say it is for "personal reasons" that you need to go to another city for family reasons, etc. Or take your IM intern year and potentially switch specialties to something easier.

 

[dantt]

is 12-15 admissions that unheard of? I went to a cushy transitional year residency, and on my ward months, I regularly admitted upwards of 15-20 patients per night

doesn't sound like a cushy transitional year to me...

we're capped at 5 😀

 

[member0007]

I'm sorry this happened to you. If you had looked through previous discussions concerning the ACGME and their resident complaint/concern process, you might have realized that the whole thing is a cruel charade and a cynical scheme to make it look like residency programs can police themselves by having this toothless agency peform this useful role for GME programs. The following sentence needs to be repeated ad nauseum. The purpose of the ACGME is not to help residents or protect them from unfair,abusive, or even discriminatory behavior by residency programs. If the ACGME was really interested in that, it would have had whistleblower protections for folks like yourself who summoned enough courage to file a concern or complaint against an abusive program or program director. In my opinion, the ACGME should stop pretending that it cares about protecting the rights of residents and get rid of their resident concern or complaint process because it does much more harm than good by jeopardizing the careers of naive residents who don't fully consider the risk of their program director retaliating against them for filing the concern or complaint. Good luck in your future endeavors.

Yeah, totally agree. In fact, they should just focus on just collecting their fees from the all the programs that have voluntarily signed up to be accredited by them on a timely manner or something.

 

[Ronin786]

File complaints anonymously>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I don't know if that is an option, but when the pool of possible "complainers" is 5-6 or maybe less, its not that hard for a PD to find out who filed the complaint.