[Medicine] I don’t like where I’m doing my residency
Hey everyone, how are you?
Basically, just what the title says. I’m currently doing my residency at a hospital that I won’t name because I don’t want to dox myself, but I’m not really happy there.
I was pretty disappointed that I didn’t get into Clínicas, Rivadavia, Lagleyze, or Santa Lucía. So I keep having this thought in the back of my mind that I’m training at a mediocre place instead of one of those hospitals. It really gets me down, and I think about it pretty much every day.
I’ve considered taking the residency entrance exam again, but ophthalmology is already very difficult to get into, so I’m not sure.
In case anyone is wondering what I don’t like about my current program:
Patient volume: It’s very low, and most of the patients are elderly.
Surgery: There isn’t much surgical volume.
Academics: We don’t really have case conferences or much academic activity within the department. We residents give classes to each other, but beyond that there isn’t much.
Few subspecialties: We have one attending who does orbit, one retina specialist, and two oculoplastics specialists. Other than that, there isn’t much.
Prestige: Being somewhere that isn’t particularly prestigious gets to my ego. I did my entire medical degree at Clínicas and was also a teaching assistant there, so it really bothers me that I’m not doing my residency there.
That’s pretty much it. I mainly wanted to vent and hear what you guys think.
Btw : I’m not from the states, I’m from Argentina.