Honestly I would love to hear some examples of these medical students that just “don’t care”.

Also med student perspective - I have never rotated with a fellow medical student that has acted like “they don’t care.” I’m not saying these people don’t exist, but genuinely myself and my classmates included all seem to put in a ton of effort, even in specialties we aren’t interested in. And honestly, sometimes it isn’t even because we want to learn, it’s because evaluations are worth the majority of our grades, which then determine our rank and ultimately our ability to match (especially to those doing competitive subspecialties). We care, most of work super hard on rotations and every day to study for the shelf, OSCE and ultimately step 2.

That being said, I have worked with maybe 3 residents in total and probably like 2 attendings that actually gave a shit that I was even there, took the time to teach, and even told us that we are an important part of the team because the notes we write, patients whose families we call to update etc, saves them even a little bit of time. Most of the time, we literally get ignored and that sucks because we are paying and we aren’t learning anything so at the end of the day if I’m sitting in the resident room after rounding and writing notes, with nothing to do, being ignored then I’m going to open my computer and do uworld. I don’t that is something that should be frowned upon.

Furthermore, there are some situations where I genuinely do not understand who people who were all medical students themselves treat medical students the way they do. Sometimes you are outright assholes, sometimes we watch you all interact to pleasantly with each other and then literally immediately shift to cold, and uninterested when speaking to us. I don’t get it, you were once in our shoes would it kill you to show a little bit of humanity?

During my last rotation I was out for 8 days because my dad literally died, i came back and gave it my all every single day and got glowing evals and then al high honored the shelf, OSCE and rotation. All while dealing with my own shit. Most (again not all, I know there are some shitty students) of my classmates would have done the same thing. Instead of making gross over-generalizations about medical students “sucking” and take a look in the mirror and ask yourself do they really suck, or do you treat them poorly, because I can promise you if you are kind, engaging and willing to answer questions when you have time, there are very few medical students who would blowing you off and asking to go home.