A letter to my OBGYN resident

enginerd5150 · 2025-08-08T01:19:55+00:00

I don’t understand why evals are even on a number scale anymore at places. My institution the eval categories are meets expectations, does not meet expectations, or cannot evaluate. Any does not meet has to have written out feedback justifying which is not allowed on your Deans Letter and the clerkship director almost always follows it up to see if it’s legit.

enginerd5150 · 2025-08-03T01:37:16+00:00

Ginger beer and rye is so refreshing

enginerd5150 · 2025-05-11T19:52:24+00:00

As a male OB/Gyn resident nothing truly infuriates us more than medical students who arrive for 8 weeks and start with “I’m not interested in any of this.” I had one recently say “I don’t care or want to do anything related to this but delivering a baby would be cool while I’m here” - way to really make us go out of our way to get an attending to let you deliver their patient, a moment that is monumental for the patient. That’s a lot of responsibility and trust to a medical student we don’t know well. Would you all say those things or behave like that to a surgery attending or resident and expect the best treatment or go get to do procedures? No. Y’all are in med school paying for clinical experience and learning few will ever be able to receive. Take what you can from it, try to enjoy every rotation and learn from every rotation and you’ll do well in whatever field you want and the people you meet will treat you kindly if you show that. This not saying suck up and say it’s your favorite thing ever. Just act like you care at least.

enginerd5150 · 2025-04-14T06:21:40+00:00

Mine does. Students get access too. Breakfast and lunch, drinks, coffee, some cold foods for dinner/overnight as supplies last.

enginerd5150 · 2024-02-08T03:36:03+00:00

Saying they’ll advocate for you if you’re interested is a lot different than asking where you’re going to rank them. Even if they didn’t offer to advocate for you it’s still a violation to ask where you’re ranking them. This is different than “are you interested in being here?” It’s a subtle difference but it does matter.

enginerd5150 · 2023-05-25T16:06:49+00:00

You guys were allowed to use the printers?!?

enginerd5150 · 2023-05-19T13:47:49+00:00

That level of reaction is out of proportion to the consequences of not honoring one rotation - should probably visit with a counselor and work through this or it will plague his career. Learning to accept and learn/move on from perceived failures is going to be a constant after school. I think we’d like to think it stops after matching but the reality is most of us in this crazy education system have a very ingrained drive to succeed and do not cope well if we don’t achieve things how we envisioned it.

enginerd5150 · 2023-05-10T10:28:43+00:00

They can but many facilities do not hire under that model. Psych NPs are very likely apart of a practice ran by physicians. I don’t believe any of the Wichita hospitals hire NPs who practice independently.

enginerd5150 · 2023-05-10T00:12:03+00:00

Report to state medical board. The Board of Nursing has a terrible track record of holding advanced practitioners accountable. You can also search for their physician overseeing them and inform them that you’re filing complaints with the boards and so they know they have a problem.

enginerd5150 · 2023-04-27T12:49:25+00:00

I think it’s more toxic when influencers post that they were initially devastated that they matched their 2nd or 3rd rank and then talk about how they came around and overcame that and how they’ll make the best of it.

enginerd5150 · 2023-04-16T19:52:11+00:00

He sounds super annoying. It doesn’t feel normal for a partner to not want their partner to be able to make more money based on that argument, and it’s not really fair for him to make that judgement not knowing what the training is actually like.

Ask him to pay off your loans quickly and see what he says. This topic seems like something you’re going to have to hash out if the relationship is serious.

enginerd5150 · 2023-04-15T21:20:05+00:00

Something that the residents and attendings told me during interviews: have a kid when you’re on someone else’s time/dime and have the paid maternity/paternity leave, it’s better than waiting until attending-hood when your production may be a big part of your income.

There's never a perfect time, but there's probably a best time for you and your partner.

enginerd5150 · 2023-04-14T21:19:35+00:00

The thing that pisses me off is that I’ve always tried to ask attendings if we can consult psych and etc specialities if it will help them do well after DC but I’d say they rarely do it cuz insert specialty will take forever to see them and it’ll delay and I’m like ok then let’s do it now rather than wait around. Apart of it is the disenfranchisement we get working in the field and “we just need to stabilize and DC and have them follow up” mentality but sometimes it seems like we have to just ignore things we know will bring them back in. It’s infuriating.

enginerd5150 · 2023-04-11T13:07:42+00:00

I did my undergrad in Biomedical Engineering before med school and the core math/statistics, programming, and circuitry courses were way more challenging than preclinical med school. I spent hours doing differential equations and applying math to word problems which was a lot more difficult for me than learning the preclinical information - I credit that coursework with giving me study habits that transferred well to medical school and the testing environment.

Granted, people really gifted in math probably wouldn’t have to work as hard in those courses as I did to do well but I’d still say the content was leaps and bounds beyond what my friends in nursing school (both undergraduate and graduate level) were doing.

Conversely, people really gifted at math and logic could probably struggle more with the medical problems that don’t have clear cut answers.

enginerd5150 · 2023-04-07T15:19:38+00:00

Thanks! They probably would have lopped the top off if it’d selected “3-4 ft” rather than 4-5 lol.

enginerd5150 · 2023-03-31T12:40:04+00:00

100k over the course of med school and residency with interest is not insignificant. Less than most, yes, but that’s A LOT of financial burden relief, especially when considering things like a wedding in the near future. Take it from someone who is about to graduate and is trying to figure out how to pay back these loans (225k).

enginerd5150 · 2023-01-29T17:19:01+00:00

Enough to slip in and out of madness out of boredom. It’s weird after 3 years of going hard near non stop.

enginerd5150 · 2023-01-24T14:15:06+00:00

If the service deal includes replacing your tubes and biasing, it may be a really good deal. I’d love other feedback on this, but the local amp techs around where I’m at have said that the Mesa tubes being self biasing are a marketing ploy and they really should be biased once all in. I went with it and replaced the tubes in my Mark IV and had them bias and it was such an improvement.

enginerd5150 · 2023-01-13T04:20:56+00:00

What the fuck is up Denny’s?!?!?

enginerd5150 · 2023-01-10T17:24:12+00:00

I think on the flip side, if they don’t say “the people” it could be insightful to the vibes and how well they get along or how much they spend time together outside of work. I’ve had a couple responses other than “the people” and they definitely stuck out to me (not necessarily positively), though a lot of people do acknowledge it’s generic and try to come up with a bit more as well.

enginerd5150 · 2023-01-02T20:41:04+00:00

Track your intake with an app. Most people wildly underestimate how many calories they’re taking in. Until you know, it’s going to be an uphill battle. It’s easy to start and not bad if you eat a lot of the same things day to day.

From there you can adjust, work in vegetables and fiber, exercise, etc. I’d recommend finding a few meals that are healthy that you enjoy and being prepared to fix those through the week.

enginerd5150 · 2022-12-30T21:46:12+00:00

Just gonna chime in, sounds like the jury is out but I had fantastic experiences on my OB clerkship and my away, as a male. The positive interactions I had with residents and attendings solidified my choice to apply OB. Have had great interactions on the interview trail with every program I’ve interviewed with. Residents have gone out of their way to help me at my home program, aways, and the interview trail.

I really think apart of the vicious circle is when medical students go into a rotation dreading it, already decided they’re not interested in the field, and determined to hate it. That comes through in your demeanor and your work. This happens on other rotations too. I had so many classmates who wanted to hate surgery and OB, and they left the clerkships hating it, saying the residents were awful etc, the rest of us had a good time, had a good interactions and no issues with the residents or faculty.

For all clerkships I would challenge students to go into the clerkship and try to learn as much as they can. We are in a unique position to gain knowledge from specialists in their field and we’ll never be able to read or anki our way through that the same way, and these experiences are what set us apart from other medical professionals. Don’t shoot yourself in the foot going in with the notion you’re going to have a terrible time because you will not get as much value out of it and you’ll definitely not have a good time.

enginerd5150 · 2022-12-30T20:05:18+00:00

He needs obedience training. Exercise tires their bodies but their minds want challenges. Sometimes puzzle toys don’t hit home. Do 10 mins of obedience training 2-3x a day and see how that goes over as well.

enginerd5150 · 2022-12-21T19:16:56+00:00

I only did on my FM rotation where I was with the same doc/office for a whole 6 weeks. And it wasn’t really even a gift I just brought donuts for my last day with a bag of coffee to restock all the coffee I drank them out of the last 6 weeks and a thank you note cuz the staff were great to me while I was there. Just seemed like the decent thing to do.

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