Termed used in feedback?

[watermen]

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While doing my rotation, I asked some of the residents to give me feedback. Almost all the feedback I got from attending to intern were amazing, fantastic, impressive, pretty good, excellent, great job. Now my question is, is there any hidden meaning in these terms? I got pimped all the time, and I can only answer half of it most of the time, I felt so sucky...are those terms really mean what they supposed to mean?

 

[deleted87716]

While doing my rotation, I asked some of the residents to give me feedback. Almost all the feedback I got from attending to intern were amazing, fantastic, impressive, pretty good, excellent, great job. Now my question is, is there any hidden meaning in these terms? I got pimped all the time, and I can only answer half of it most of the time, I felt so sucky...are those terms really mean what they supposed to mean?

Here's the translation, from my old resident's manual. Don't tell anyone I revealed this:

Amazing = walks on water
Fantastic = average
Impressive = appropriately dressed
Pretty good = rarely smelled offensive
Excellent = How did this guy get into med school, anyway?
Great job = I wouldn't let him wash my car.

Kidding, by the way. 😉

 

[Bertelman]

All those pretty words just mean you're not an ass. Wait for the actual paper evals. A resident on my IM fed all that to me, then dropped the following...

"Dr. X met the standard for this rotation"

...(searching for the smiley with the middle finger)

 

[watermen]

All those pretty words just mean you're not an ass. Wait for the actual paper evals. A resident on my IM fed all that to me, then dropped the following...

"Dr. X met the standard for this rotation"

...(searching for the smiley with the middle finger)

What terms do they use if one is an dingus?

 

[WatchingWaiting]

What terms do they use if one is an dingus?

"Unprofessional" or "did not work well with the team." You won't see many negative comments on evals though, and those that you do see are generally edited out by the time of dean's letters. Surgery rotations are probably the only place you are pretty much guaranteed to have at least one hostile comment about you somewhere in the text.

 

[pinkfrosting]

Surgery rotations are probably the only place you are pretty much guaranteed to have at least one hostile comment about you somewhere in the text.

I had a very hostile comment from one of my peds attendings, so there are people other than surgeons who make hostile comments about students 🙂

 

[ocean11]

what did he say on your eval?

 

[OB/Gyn Kenobi]

The way I see it, there are four categories of comments. I've gotten all four, sometimes on the same rotation, showing how random they are.

1. The honestly really impressive great comments. These include: I hope (s)he chooses to go into this specialty. Had the most impressive fund of knowledge for his/her level I have seen in years. Was a real advocate for his/her patients. These are rare, and if you get these, you should feel lucky.

2. The good comments. These are comments that, if speaking to a lay person, would sound great, but really just meant you did okay. Most comments are in this category. Well-prepared. Excellent fund of knowledge (this one's on the high side). Good student (on the low side).

3. The bad comments. These are the comments that sound good, but because they are so blase, are really slightly negative. Adequate fund of knowledge. Improved over course or rotation. Quiet.

4. The really bad comments. No explanation needed. Appeared to struggle on ___ clerkship. Below average fund of knowledge.

It's kind of like grade inflation, except more random. Just my opinion, of course.

 

[watermen]

The way I see it, there are four categories of comments. I've gotten all four, sometimes on the same rotation, showing how random they are.

1. The honestly really impressive great comments. These include: I hope (s)he chooses to go into this specialty. Had the most impressive fund of knowledge for his/her level I have seen in years. Was a real advocate for his/her patients. These are rare, and if you get these, you should feel lucky.

2. The good comments. These are comments that, if speaking to a lay person, would sound great, but really just meant you did okay. Most comments are in this category. Well-prepared. Excellent fund of knowledge (this one's on the high side). Good student (on the low side).

3. The bad comments. These are the comments that sound good, but because they are so blase, are really slightly negative. Adequate fund of knowledge. Improved over course or rotation. Quiet.

4. The really bad comments. No explanation needed. Appeared to struggle on ___ clerkship. Below average fund of knowledge.

It's kind of like grade inflation, except more random. Just my opinion, of course.

You gotten all four? How did you manage to get the 1st one. So far the best I got is excellent fund of knowledge, History and PE is superb.

The worst I got, XXX is slow to learn. This really piss me off.🙁

 

[mdphd2b]

All those pretty words just mean you're not an ass. Wait for the actual paper evals. A resident on my IM fed all that to me, then dropped the following...

"Dr. X met the standard for this rotation"

...(searching for the smiley with the middle finger)

Dude, I feel your pain. What really gets me is when you sit down one-on-one for (informal) individual feedback with the resident. This usually happens mid-term and end of rotation. When they're face-to-face, it's all smiles and glowing terms. You may run into them on the floors a couple wk after the rotation, and they're still all nice and friendly. THEN they drop the bombshell on the written eval, which you don't even get to read until many months later 😡

 

[chintu]

so far I've gotten something similar to 1 and 2 not quite though. My best one says something like : "demonstrated excellent clinical acumen with solid foundation of clinical knowledge, performing at a level beyond expectations , working at a subintern level, etc..". My other is something like "very good overall performance, above average skills in H & P, highly motivated and interested in learning the specialty". Nothing bad yet but I have yet to receive my surgery eval and its almost a guarantee that I'll see something negative there so yeah I guess mine will span the range too.

 

[watermen]

One of my feedback:

Area of strength: Mean student....etc...

How would you interpret this sentence?