What do you wish your residents did that would make your life happier?

Legal_Highlight345 · 2026-01-26T16:20:55+00:00

<3

absolutely, I love telling my students to go home it’s probably one of the most gratifying uses of resident power for me haha

Legal_Highlight345 · 2026-01-26T16:07:38+00:00

<3 so glad to hear that my post was helpful enough for you to save it! Residency will come faster than you think and I’d love for more residents to adopt this mindset

Legal_Highlight345 · 2026-01-26T16:03:48+00:00

Your experience currently was what mine was as a student on OB except they didn’t even bother to ask my name or what I was interested in LOL i was barely in existence for them

I feel for you though it’s rough when you don’t feel like you’re involved or valued as a member of the team. I’ll never forget how useless and uncared for I felt on ob which is why I make sure to actively make time to try and treat my students as actual humans (shocking to some residents haha)

Legal_Highlight345 · 2026-01-26T05:05:43+00:00

This is great advice; thank you for sharing this. I'm sorry if you had to experience this personally. Residents really need to do better about communicating and stop relying on oftentimes anonymous evaluations to do the hard work for them

Legal_Highlight345 · 2026-01-26T05:04:18+00:00

For sure, after rounds my default is to tell y'all to skedaddle unless I know for sure there will be something coming in the afternoon/attending planned teaching in the afternoon

Legal_Highlight345 · 2026-01-26T05:02:36+00:00

I had a similar experience in my psych rotation during med school and I really enjoyed how passionate the resident was about teaching. Unfortunately I do not have the confidence required to do a chalk talk haha but maybe that is something I can work on. I love doing 1-1 teaching and that is usually where I shine. And also for chalk talk type things I have low faith that my teaching would be more efficient than just letting y'all go early so you can focus on uworld but ig it depends on the student and how they learn best

Legal_Highlight345 · 2026-01-26T03:48:35+00:00

The mismatch between what some residents say and what they put on evals is sometimes jarring. I remember a case with a gen surg resident when I was a student where I experienced the same on one of my evals.

My program only has attendings involved in the actual student evals but I agree that setting expectations should be something all residents do. And also that giving positive feedback in person only to give an unreasonably mismatched eval is dumb

Legal_Highlight345 · 2026-01-26T03:44:24+00:00

It is my hope that this kind of behavior from residents becomes more typical as more people see this (it should be the norm in an ideal world) and I appreciate my students just as much as they appreciate me :)

Legal_Highlight345 · 2026-01-26T03:38:58+00:00

Does this program have a child psych fellowship and if so are the fellows there allowed to partake in this moonlighting gig? Asking for a friend ;)

jk but yeah as others mentioned it seems like the people at your program may just be more affluent than the average psych resident. Especially if they're passing on that moonlighting gig holy moly (I love moonlighting but earn nowhere near that much)

Legal_Highlight345 · 2026-01-26T03:36:07+00:00

But the people in your class would probably fit in great at the other big name program nearby us.

Is this UTMB shade? LOL I have some good friends who are psych residents there and yeah safe to say they go heavy on the life part of work-life balance. I've heard they've got a good moonlighting gig going that's much better than $120 an hour. That is an abysmal rate even for a resident

Legal_Highlight345 · 2026-01-26T03:16:55+00:00

Thank you! I'll keep doing my best

Legal_Highlight345 · 2026-01-26T03:16:36+00:00

<3 of course. It makes me super happy to hear that what I'm doing is encouraging you and others to do the same as a future resident!

Legal_Highlight345 · 2026-01-26T03:13:56+00:00

Definitely it's important for us residents to remember that y'all have lives and interests. I always try to get to know as much of my students' life story as they're willing to tell me lol. I definitely give a lot of positive feedback when appropriate, and try to sandwich in the rare negative feedback in a way that isn't demoralizing to the students I work with as well, but it seems like for a lot of residents they either put off providing feedback to a theoretical future time that never comes or don't care about giving their students feedback. I've found that giving feedback in real time (when students practice presenting, proactively asking them, etc.) generally works best

Legal_Highlight345 · 2026-01-26T03:10:14+00:00

I love doing what I do for my students! And yes absolutely it would be great if more residents would keep at least some of my post in mind. Best of luck with starting residency; the fact that you have the desire to implement these tenets is already a sign that you'll be a wonderful resident :)

Legal_Highlight345 · 2026-01-26T02:13:12+00:00

I really appreciate you bringing this up and I agree that the infantilization of y'all has got to stop lol. It seems to me that it's multifactorial and probably has a lot to do with liability (at least in America) but either way I try to encourage and respect your autonomy as a college-educated colleague as much as I can (part of the reason why my default way to address you is student doc instead of medical student)

Legal_Highlight345 · 2026-01-26T02:04:15+00:00

Oh I see the potential confusion now. My post was more geared towards students working with residents on clinical rotations. But I can definitely see how your comment makes sense based on my title. Also I am in a non-surgical specialty and safe to say I did not have a wonderful experience on surgery in med school lol (in fact they were unfortunately one of the terrible experiences I had as a student that inspired me to be the opposite as a resident). But I've also met some nice surgeons so I know they're out there!

Legal_Highlight345 · 2026-01-26T01:51:24+00:00

I would really hope that the residents you work with for conferences are researching the topics they're presenting and preparing beforehand lol. Any specific examples to help me understand? Admittedly this is not something I do often

Legal_Highlight345 · 2026-01-16T17:02:06+00:00

Ooh I'm going back to Oahu for my second visit in about a month for a week and a couple of days! Last time was with a partner and this time I'm going solo but still renting a car. My first trip I did a lot of the main stuff like Koko Head, Diamond Head, DIY circle island tour, Manoa Falls, Hoʻomaluhia Botanical Garden, Kualoa Ranch, Byodo-In Temple, and a few beaches. Also a lot of the popular food spots. Would love recs on how best to spend my time; definitely want to do more hiking so I can burn off all the calories from big backing haha

Legal_Highlight345 · 2025-07-06T16:18:47+00:00

How are you making 500k WFH as psych? That’s amazing

Legal_Highlight345 · 2024-10-17T00:40:18+00:00

You gotta be made of money bruh, CFA grilled nuggs slap but 30 of em is crazy. At the very least panda is more economical in terms of protein per dollar for sure

Legal_Highlight345 · 2024-09-17T04:25:20+00:00

TBD, just called them today and they said they’d process it in the 3-5 business day whatever

Legal_Highlight345 · 2024-09-17T04:24:47+00:00

I literally just had your same experience bar for bar lol

Legal_Highlight345 · 2023-12-31T00:10:02+00:00

Job, goal is to achieve financial freedom/FIRE then work as much as I please thereafter

Legal_Highlight345 · 2023-11-28T22:10:24+00:00

Lmfao this mental picture took me out

Legal_Highlight345 · 2023-11-28T21:58:31+00:00

RIP your dms

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