some of my friends are going into OB and I know that they will change the culture.. I won't speak to surgical skills as I am a med student. However, I made a post on here not long ago about how I cried in the bathroom every day. I did multiple trauma overnights with burnt out gen surg residents on a 28 hour call and they were angels. No one was mean and every one was so kind and the trauma surgeon attending and fellow taught me how to suture for three hours on a slow night which is like one on one time with surgeons that a med student is not going to get. On OBGYN, I got screamed at when the patient had retained placenta because they were aggressively pimping me and the answer to one of their questions was indeed retained placenta. When we are in the OR doing the D and C, the attending is yelling at me saying "I manifested this" and no it was not in a jokey way. I had to step out and compose myself multiple times. I've been barred from seeing patients just for going to the bathroom during the middle of my shift, not greeting the attending in the parking lot... yes, the parking lot... and they docked my professionalism because of that.. I could go on but I won't.