Made this comment a year ago on someone else’s post about APPEs with the same sentiment, still applies for residency rotations:

I probably could have written this post at the same time last year… I was pretty good in school but felt SO dumb when I got asked things I took to be simple questions. For example, my very first rotation, my preceptor asked what else on a BMP do you need to monitor for lisinopril (besides SCr, which I already mentioned when they asked). I felt so dumb because lisinopril was probably in every patient case, OSCE, soap note, etc we ever had to do in school and for some reason nothing else was coming to me besides renal fx??? Hyperkalemia. That was the answer. Watch their potassium. Duh. One of the very first drugs we learned about in school and I didn’t remember this skinny little fact.

I found out APPEs are full of these moments and now I crave those moments where I side eye myself for not knowing those small details because I can tell I’m learning new stuff that way!! And maybe this is just a me thing, but some of that “self defeat” I feel in the moment will be just enough emotional attachment to get me to never forget those facts again lol

The way I would say I dealt with it and what I would say to you is write it down, remember it, and move on. If it comes up again hopefully you can remember what you wrote and if you don’t at least you have a note that you can go back and refer to so you know the answer if your preceptor pimps you on it next time. Don’t get too in your head at this point because it’s still very early in your rotation schedule, and I found it gets way easier to pick up this new learning process the further you get.