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Ummmm
So I have gotten the feedback again and again that I need to improve my verbal communication, i.e. that my presentations are not very good. There are many reasons this happens. I sometimes feel intimidated. I sometimes get stumped as to what I am going to say next, particularly when I get to the assessment and plan. Sometimes I just don't know the answer. I have slowly been improving by developing strategies to cope, but the whole feeling of being terrified still hasn't passed and I still stumble every time I have a new attending or I'm on a new service and I feel like it takes me far too long to even begin to find my groove (and even at my best, I'm not the smoothest)
I am at the end of third year! What do I do? I mean, I think I know about as much as everyone else, less than some. But I don't want to be killed in residency, I really don't.
So I have gotten the feedback again and again that I need to improve my verbal communication, i.e. that my presentations are not very good. There are many reasons this happens. I sometimes feel intimidated. I sometimes get stumped as to what I am going to say next, particularly when I get to the assessment and plan. Sometimes I just don't know the answer. I have slowly been improving by developing strategies to cope, but the whole feeling of being terrified still hasn't passed and I still stumble every time I have a new attending or I'm on a new service and I feel like it takes me far too long to even begin to find my groove (and even at my best, I'm not the smoothest)
I am at the end of third year! What do I do? I mean, I think I know about as much as everyone else, less than some. But I don't want to be killed in residency, I really don't.
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