So up to this point in 3rd year Ive done one whole rotation, surgery, and half done with my 2nd rotation, pediatrics. So, I got my evaluations back yesterday for surgery and also back for some pediatrics. And I am worried and kind of shocked. Worried about whether the couple of bad evaluations will affect my residency. A couple of the doctors didnt say good things about me, well at least it will get me to pay more attention and shape up for the future rotations! Here are the nice kind words that I am talking about!!
Keep in mind, for this 1st one, I was late ONCE and I didnt know what JP was at the end of the 1st week, or didnt know she had it because I thought it was taken out, I don't know, it was a small thing, or at least what I thought was a small thing, that this DOC thought was a MAJOR deal. WOW.
Doctor 1:
“Keep reading -You need to understand a few things. First,
there is a heirarchy in medicine and as a med student you should respect that.
This applies to the 4th year students. They know much more than you about
everything, so taking their advice would be a great idea. -No one is perfect.
Respond more openly to feedback/criticism. Everyone makes mistakes, but it's
how you repsond to this criticism that will determine how you do throughout
your career. -you need to pay more attention on rounds and throughout the day
about what's going on with our patients. Perfect example: we had a pt who had a
JP in that we had been seeing for 5 days. When we discussed it, you claimed to
not know she had a JP in place. This is unacceptable. To be a successful doctor
you're going to need to pay much more attention to what's happening on rounds
and less attention to your iPad. -The more interest you show, the more people
will want to help you and teahc you. No one wants to take time out of their day
to teach someone who isn't paying attention or doesn't care. However, if you
show understanding and appreciation for their teahcing, you'll find that
everyone (nurses, residents, attendings, etc) will take as much time as is
needed to teach you and help you with things -Punctuality is an extremely
important part of medicine. It's disrespectful to be late for anything,
especially as the med student. -Try to be a better team player. Medicine, and
especially surgery, is all about teamwork. If people can't trust you to do your
job, the team falls apart. -None of this is a criticism on you as a person.
This is just some feedback very early in your career that hopefully will help
you to improve significantly as you go on. You're a good person. You just have
to work on some of these things.”
The other two DOCS are below in what they said, and keep in mind I would "dissapear" when they told us nothing was going on, and we could go read, etc. I would go to the library, and so this is what came of that:
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has not quite made switch from being a 2nd year medical student
working on academic aspect of medicine to a 3rd year medical student on the
wards. Max would disappear at times without informing or checking in with
team. Work on being more of a team member within the health care team and
with other 3rd year medical students.
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Needs to work on being a team
player. Is enthusiastic and enjoys being a part of team but at times did not
take direction or suggestion well.
Anyways, I guess thats just life, I am going to work hard to learn from this and be better! Its just so crazy seeing how a little thing can become such a big thing. Anyways, I am going to go study a little now before the hawkeye game
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