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Ok, not quite. I have been getting very frustrated with my current rotation lately. Our curriculum is designed in such a manner so that we have 2 months of internal medicine. 1 month is devoted to long hospital hours where we are on call a lot and have relatively no time to read. The other is devoted to going to the hospital in the morning and afternoon and getting out fairly early (7-2ish usually) so that we can have the remainer of the day to read and prep for the shelf.
I am at a brand new site for my "less hours" rotation, so they don't exactly know how things should be working. However, I have been at the hospital almost every day until 5-6. the attending that I have been working with has been kind of ridiculous and will oftentimes have me go see a patient and then just follow him around or just sit around and wait for him until he basically feels like seeing the patient that am following. Yesterday, I saw a patient in the ER at 11:30 and had to wait around until 4:30 to present the patient to my attending. I have tried to read while on-site but I have trouble because there's really no quiet place to read, or I'm following the doc around while he writes his notes or answers phone calls or teaches me very important points like "make sure you tell the patient to start breathing again after you listen for carotid bruits." And I don't mean just mentions it, but I mean elaborates on such points. For anyone wondering, no I'm not an idiot and he has never observed me doing a physical exam so he's not just correcting my mistake.
Today I called him in the morning, presented the progress of my patient and then wrote the orders. Then, I waited for another doc to get out of a meeting so that I could round with him (understandable). My attending told me he still hadn't seen my patient and would page me when he got around to it. I got sick of it and asked him if there was anything else I'd be able to help with in regards to this patient because if there isn't, it would be helpful for me to leave and read in order to prepare for the shelf. However, I did this in front of the site director. I don't know if that was a bad move and now I'm afraid that my whole hard work this month is going to be screwed up.
What are your thoughts on standing up for yourself and asking to go read when you work hard, are staying longer hours than necessary and have literally been waiting around since 7 that morning to round on a patient which takes 15 min and have a shelf coming up?
I am at a brand new site for my "less hours" rotation, so they don't exactly know how things should be working. However, I have been at the hospital almost every day until 5-6. the attending that I have been working with has been kind of ridiculous and will oftentimes have me go see a patient and then just follow him around or just sit around and wait for him until he basically feels like seeing the patient that am following. Yesterday, I saw a patient in the ER at 11:30 and had to wait around until 4:30 to present the patient to my attending. I have tried to read while on-site but I have trouble because there's really no quiet place to read, or I'm following the doc around while he writes his notes or answers phone calls or teaches me very important points like "make sure you tell the patient to start breathing again after you listen for carotid bruits." And I don't mean just mentions it, but I mean elaborates on such points. For anyone wondering, no I'm not an idiot and he has never observed me doing a physical exam so he's not just correcting my mistake.
Today I called him in the morning, presented the progress of my patient and then wrote the orders. Then, I waited for another doc to get out of a meeting so that I could round with him (understandable). My attending told me he still hadn't seen my patient and would page me when he got around to it. I got sick of it and asked him if there was anything else I'd be able to help with in regards to this patient because if there isn't, it would be helpful for me to leave and read in order to prepare for the shelf. However, I did this in front of the site director. I don't know if that was a bad move and now I'm afraid that my whole hard work this month is going to be screwed up.
What are your thoughts on standing up for yourself and asking to go read when you work hard, are staying longer hours than necessary and have literally been waiting around since 7 that morning to round on a patient which takes 15 min and have a shelf coming up?