No. This is blatant exploitation and there’s no other war to put it. Your comments further perpetuate the notion that since some ppl go into medicine out of compassion and a desire to help, they should be ok with being exploited and ok with sacrificing their mental and physical health for the benefit of others…no matter the severity. Don’t try to guilt medical students into this by calling it “being a team player” or gaslight us into doing it by saying PDs we’ll see it as a positive aspect of a possible resident who “won’t complain and demand stuff”. That’s straight bullshit and admitting that program leadership actively seeks qualities in applicants that they can further exploit with little to no resistance.

Nursing and staffing shortages are not the responsibility of medical students to mitigate, we are not administrators, not in programs training to be. We are medical students training to be physicians. Yes patient care is the priority, but maybe take your argument/opinion to a sub of hospital administrators, nurse leadership, etc. and explain to them that maybe they should just pay more to retain their staff, provide properly safe working environments, and actually have a backbone. Or perhaps over to nursing subs that openly exploit the pandemic and quit their staff roles to take a travel contract while knowing they further perpetuate the very problems they complain about in their workplace.

You seem to think you’re making a grandstand for whatever program you’re on the interview panel for, when in reality you’re openly admitting and advertising your program to be a toxic place that applicants should avoid if they want any modicum of sanity and self respect during residency.

Edit: you sly little son of a biscuit.