Sorry for the long post. But I feel like ranting.
Coordinator of current rotation continues to be defensive when valid/vital/nontrivial mistakes are brought up. For example, the initial email sent out providing information about the rotation had missing information e.g. we are required to attend lectures on two consecutive half days. The first day, we have lectures in the PM. The 2nd day we have lectures in the AM. The email says we are to return to our sites in the PM after the 2nd day AM lectures, but nothing is mentioned about whether we need to be at our sites in the AM on the 1st day before attending PM lectures. Failing to attend required lectures means getting an incomplete on our transcripts that can never be wiped off or worse failing the rotation for professionalism.
Because the coordinator decides to send all MS currently on the rotation an all-points bulletin email at 3:19 PM Friday telling us that some of our already submitted mid-rotation evaluation will not be accepted (deadline to submit is by midnight Friday night) without the attending putting something in the comments section instead of texting those whose evaluations they would not accept individually, due to being busy at my site, I am unable to see the email until 5:15PM when I am driving home and when the attending had already left for the weekend. Of course, my comments section is empty (which the original email about the rotation never mentioned needs to be filled out or it will be rejected), I had to jump through hoops to contact the attending and ask for their permission to allow me to write down their comments so that I can submit the eval in time.
Therefore, I sent an email to the coordinator with all the other MS cc'd asking them whether the 2nd day AM site attendance is required before the PM lectures. They responded only to me saying yes. I then suggested to them that they should send an email to all MS to inform them of this. Coordinator replies back with an, "Excuse me" and says other students have also sent emails inquiring about the same thing and that they replied to them individually. I responded that I meant no offense but that it's the responsible thing as the coordinator to send an email to all MS if there are questions about the same topic.
MS in the class below me told me of their experience with the same coordinator. Apparently, there was an assignment that was due for the clerkship that required MS to read an article and submit questions. The article could not be located and was not made available by the coordinator to the MS. Therefore, many MS missed the deadline to submit the assignment. Coordinator got defensive when it was brought to their attention that the article could not be located and was not provided.
My question to attendings with assistants. Behind the scenes, if your assistant is making mistakes after mistakes and gets defensive when their mistakes are brought to your attention, are you doing anything about it? Are you having a chat with the assistant or are you just washing your hands of the situation and don't want to deal with it? I don't know what is happening behind the scenes with this coordinator as I am cc'ing their faculty boss on every correspondence.
