u/IllustriousHumor3673

First week at a new job and I’m going absolutely out of my mind.

The boss has his favourite 6 songs on repeat nonstop for the whole office to hear! And he sings along with them!!

They’re stuck in my head and I’m dreading going back

Aaaaaaaaahhhh!!!

My most embarrassing moment as a med student yet.

I’m on L&D service and one patient went from fine to chaos when fetus started deceling.

We wheeled her into OR for Emergency C-section.

The surgical nurse, who one would assume has been in stressful situations in the past, totally lost her mind and was yelling at everyone.

To be fair the room was tight as Peds team was there too, but the yelling from the staff member was unlike anything I’ve seen before

She notices me, and unfamiliar naive face awkwardly scrubbed and ready to assist in my first Section.

She approaches me, asks who I am.

I reply “hi I’m a med student” when she immediately touches my sterile globes, yells out in front of my attending, residents, anesthesia and pediatrics team “HE IS UNSTERILE! GET OUT OF THE OR”

I then make the walk of shame out of the OR, back to the call room.

What a day

I was at a community event in my hometown today, and I bumped into a Boomer GI who has been running a fellowship program for 30 years in an academic hospital.

He asked me what I’m considering applying, and I said I’m thinking about peds but nervous about compensation and job market.

He immediately launches into a 20 minute lecture about how I shouldn’t have gone into medicine if “all you want to do is get rich” and “I work for an underserved population and I don’t regret one day”

Buddy, you’re clearing 650k yearly.

Maybe this is why nothing changes for peds, because the moment you bring this up, you get judged for being greedy.

But nobody ever lectures M3 with a passion for cosmetic surgery as “greedy”.

Not the first boomer to lecture me this way.

How can I know if psych is right for me?

Im a M3 med student and started my psych rotation on adolescent inpatient unit . So far it’s been my favourite week of med school. I feel the days flying by, never felt this way before on any rotation.

I always wanted to do Pediatrics, but I’m thinking about child psych now.

My hesitations are mainly around hanging up the stethoscope

Curious what y’all think? Would really appreciate some input!

Thank you

I got triggered by a post here with people writing about how annoying it is when med students ask questions.

Lets not all accept this. Med education is filled with abuse and a ridiculous hierarchy where med students are made to feel like a burden and a nuisance.

We deserve to learn and deserve to be able to ask questions.

I know of people who spent their entire surgery rotation not saying a word. Or barely scrubbing in.

The point of rotations is not to spend 12 hours a day doing nothing in order to avoid annoying people before going home to study uworld.

Some people say that this teaches social awareness; I think it’s a test of subservcience.

We deserve to learn.

Don’t forget, you’re literally paying to be here.

If the attending of resident wants to be a jerk, that’s their issue.

Crazy that people will advise you to spend your entire 3rd year huddled in a corner or following others around with your mouth shut because your afraid of some jerk’s rude comment about you an eval.

I hope our Generation fixes this one day.
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Dear Med School Rotation Admin,

The new rotation begins next Monday, yet you have not sent out the student’s schedule.

I have kids at home, and your lack of ability to be organized is causing me and my spouse much distress as we need to make arrangements for our children.

Parents do not have the luxury of letting summer camps know when we can pick up our children 2 days before camps starts. I need to know if I must ask my aunt or sister to come babysit.

This is unfair and unprofessional.

One more professionalism violation and we will take away your ability to reply to student’s emails with “Out of Office: will return in October”

I’m wondering if anyone has any good insight to offer.

I have kids of my own during med school, and expenses are super tight already.

I will graduate with 500k+ student debt

But I really badly want to become a pediatrician. I love that part of medicine. I do extra shifts in my schools hospital in peds ER for fun, not even as part of my rotations.

When I don’t think about finances, that’s what I want to do. Hopefully open my own peds practice one day.

But when i speak to pediatricians about peds, they all tell me that the pay sucks.

I’m honestly super nervous about this decision. I’m so upset that our stupid medical system punishes doctors for wanting to work with children.

Is there a way to make this work? I want to be able to provide a decent comfortable life for my children and spouse.

Is specializing mandatory? Or opening a private practice? Perhaps there are medical side hustles, or economic factors that are not mentioned when discussing salary alone?

Would love to hear your thoughts

I have kids of my own during med school, and expenses are super tight already.

I will graduate with 500k+ student debt

But I really badly want to become a pediatrician. I love that part of medicine.

When I don’t think about finances, that’s what I want to do. Hopefully open my own peds practice one day.

But when i speak to pediatricians about peds, they all tell me that the pay sucks.

I’m honestly super nervous about this decision. I’m so upset that our stupid medical system punishes doctors for wanting to work with children.

Is there a way to make this work? I want to be able to provide a decent comfortable life for my children and spouse.

Is specializing mandatory? Or opening a private practice? Perhaps there are medical side hustles, or economic factors that are not mentioned when discussing salary alone?

Would love to hear your thoughts

I’m wondering if anyone has any good insight to offer.

I have kids of my own during med school, and expenses are super tight already.

I will graduate with 500k+ student debt

But I really badly want to become a pediatrician. I love that part of medicine. I do extra shifts in my schools hospital in peds ER for fun, not even as part of my rotations.

When I don’t think about finances, that’s what I want to do. Hopefully open my own peds practice one day.

But when i speak to pediatricians about peds, they all tell me that the pay sucks.

I’m honestly super nervous about this decision. I’m so upset that our stupid medical system punishes doctors for wanting to work with children.

Is there a way to make this work? I want to be able to provide a decent comfortable life for my children and spouse.

Is specializing mandatory? Or opening a private practice? Perhaps there are medical side hustles, or economic factors that are not mentioned when discussing salary alone?

Would love to hear your thoughts

I’m a 6”1 alpha male. Hulk and bulk. I’m at a top MD program so I’m a genius. M3

Stats: 2/2 honors so far, Step 1: pass
MCAT: 518
Casper: 4th quartile

Undergrad gpa: 3.77

Chief resident is getting my eye. Thinking about dropping her a message on Epic.

WAMC?

Rotations are short and schools take on more students than they can handle.

There is not enough time and too many students per block for directors to get to know or even a feel of each M3 individually.

But they still need to stratify us.

So the easiest solution is to make mountains of paperwork and meaningless tasks with minutia that has to be completed in a specific and timely manner.

The hope is that a portion of students make one error on one document or report which will be used to lower their grade.

Or one person will randomly write something nasty on one evaluation.

We all know that survey data is of the lowest quality data available. Yet it’s essentially how we stratify students and set them up for success or failure in the Match.

Thus one can have a stellar rotation of 6 weeks of 12 hours shift Sunday-Friday with no lunch break, but still miss honors bc they didn’t fill out a line on a submission.

Maybe this isn’t a hot take at all

Hey so I’m 27 yo M and I’ve been finding myself intervening with my mom in times of crisis.
She’s a 55 yo accomplished woman with quite the resume. But I found myself tonight driving over to her place to hold her hand and calm her down as she was bawling in tears about how she’s a failure.

I feel like this is well beyond my pay grade.

I’ve spoken with a friend of hers in the past but nothings come of it.
My dad doesn’t really do mental health, if you know what I mean.

Feeling alone and overwhelmed. How should I go about this?

Thank you so much