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Hello everyone.
I am in what I feel is an odd situation and I am hoping I can get some advice here.
I completed an away rotation in September and did very well, impressing several of the attendings I worked with and coming away with a grade of Honors. However, at the end of the rotation, I lost a form I was supposed to turn in. It was a check box of procedures and specific patient encounters I was supposed to have attendings sign, there were 3 boxed for suture repair, 4 boxes for pelvic exam, 3 for trauma evaluation etc. When I realized I lost it at the end of the rotation I called the clerkship director who told me I needed to turn in the form or else I would be graded as Incomplete, so she and the secretary scheduled me for a couple shifts later in October so I could come back, repeat any procedures I needed to, and also hunt down attendings I worked with and have them sign it again. I eventually completed the form and sent it last Tuesday, 2 weeks after my last shift from my rotation. I'm aware I should have tried to get it back sooner but I had a new elective at my home school to attend and I got a very bad virus as my ER rotation ended that left me bedridden some days and driving 3 hours back to the site of my away just wasn't happening.
Anyway, today I got a message from the secretary that " Due to the delay of documentation, your SLOE is not going to be a strong one.". Of course I'm freaking out on reading that so I get in touch with the clerkship director to find out more. She tells me that I still have Honors for my SLOE but the fact that I was late with my paperwork will be mentioned in the comments. This feels unfair to me as while I realize I'm an idiot for losing the form in the first place I took all the steps I was supposed to to correct the problem and got the form signed and turned in, but I didn't want to argue with the person writing my letter. I've read the clerkship comment summary and it's all glowingly positive. And I can't really not send this letter off since I only did 2 EM rotations and this was my 2nd. Will a comment like this hurt me or is it not that big a deal in the big scheme of things? I would appreciate your advice.
For the record, I don't feel I have a bad relationship with this clerkship director. In fact we worked a shift together and she gave me one of my stronger evals that month, and she told me she thought I did well and would make a great intern.
I am in what I feel is an odd situation and I am hoping I can get some advice here.
I completed an away rotation in September and did very well, impressing several of the attendings I worked with and coming away with a grade of Honors. However, at the end of the rotation, I lost a form I was supposed to turn in. It was a check box of procedures and specific patient encounters I was supposed to have attendings sign, there were 3 boxed for suture repair, 4 boxes for pelvic exam, 3 for trauma evaluation etc. When I realized I lost it at the end of the rotation I called the clerkship director who told me I needed to turn in the form or else I would be graded as Incomplete, so she and the secretary scheduled me for a couple shifts later in October so I could come back, repeat any procedures I needed to, and also hunt down attendings I worked with and have them sign it again. I eventually completed the form and sent it last Tuesday, 2 weeks after my last shift from my rotation. I'm aware I should have tried to get it back sooner but I had a new elective at my home school to attend and I got a very bad virus as my ER rotation ended that left me bedridden some days and driving 3 hours back to the site of my away just wasn't happening.
Anyway, today I got a message from the secretary that " Due to the delay of documentation, your SLOE is not going to be a strong one.". Of course I'm freaking out on reading that so I get in touch with the clerkship director to find out more. She tells me that I still have Honors for my SLOE but the fact that I was late with my paperwork will be mentioned in the comments. This feels unfair to me as while I realize I'm an idiot for losing the form in the first place I took all the steps I was supposed to to correct the problem and got the form signed and turned in, but I didn't want to argue with the person writing my letter. I've read the clerkship comment summary and it's all glowingly positive. And I can't really not send this letter off since I only did 2 EM rotations and this was my 2nd. Will a comment like this hurt me or is it not that big a deal in the big scheme of things? I would appreciate your advice.
For the record, I don't feel I have a bad relationship with this clerkship director. In fact we worked a shift together and she gave me one of my stronger evals that month, and she told me she thought I did well and would make a great intern.
