Who gets to write up a case? Weird behaviour on rotation

[588442]

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I recently had a real cool case, did a whole bunch of research on this patient and tried to come up with management. My intern was real happy with my work too. And when the intern presented this case in a lecture, one of the staff physians asked us to write it up. I asked the senior resident if I can be involved in writing the case up, I had already done a bunch of research on this patient, and had her HPI and the entire stay written down. I didn’t put this conversation in our group chat, thought better talked in person with the senior.

And the last day of our rotation, this other student asked to jump on the write up, and I’m thinking but what do you want to work on now, when we already put the work in. She never really put any research into this case, never took an HPI, and never really talked to me about participating last minute. I felt weird since this was the one super cool case that I had, and she had had most of the cool cases for most of this month. I mean I was thinking why do you want to jump in on my case now when I have done a whole bunch of work on it, why wouldn’t you just write up one of your own cool cases? I sort of confronted her, but in a nice way, and she told me she thought everyone gets to work on a cool case, and not just the student/ intern who has been following the patient, I thought to myself but you need to put in the work beforehand. She made it sound all innocent, but I felt so odd, and for a moment I thought that I would be kicked out, or not given as much importance. I mean to be honest, if it was her case that was being written up, I wouldn’t just jump in last minute if I hadn’t even done an HPI on the patient.

 

[sella.turcica]

 

[deleted480308]

Was there a question?

 

[588442]

Yeah, I was wondering if everyone on a team writes up a case, or only the student and intern following the patient?
Looks like I didn't make that clear at all, probably just needed to vent. Sigh

 

[evilbooyaa]

The people who get right of first refusal to write up a case report are the people involved in that patient's care. Since you seem willing, there is no reason that another student should be involved in the case (unless they were on the team as well, in which case they can be a middle author somewhere). Stand up for yourself - you did the majority of the work on this patient (from a student perspective) and you will be writing up the case report with the intern and/or resident, and be the highest student author (whether that's first author, or second author after the intern/resident is up to departmental politics).

 

[588442]

The people who get right of first refusal to write up a case report are the people involved in that patient's care. Since you seem willing, there is no reason that another student should be involved in the case (unless they were on the team as well, in which case they can be a middle author somewhere). Stand up for yourself - you did the majority of the work on this patient (from a student perspective) and you will be writing up the case report with the intern and/or resident, and be the highest student author (whether that's first author, or second author after the intern/resident is up to departmental politics).

Ouu okay, thanks for your insight. Ya she was on the team with me, in that case she can be an author it looks like. I think its the residents’s call anyway. I heard she has topped on another case that she weren’t following, because she was friends with the said student. Just hope the PDs can differentiate. Thanks for your advice!

 

[CherryRedDracul]

She's trying to pad her resume. Don't let the innocence shtick fool you. Doesn't mean she's trying to be malicious though.

 

[mmmcdowe]

the real question is why isn't the case report done yet? The easiest way to solidify your control of a paper is to have written it. Once that exists they might choose to put her on it but they'll never put her ahead of you in the authorship.