gabelerman
Osteopathic Medical Student
Loc: 4th YEAR BABY!!!!!!!
Registered on 07-10-03
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07-21-10 11:09 PM - Post#69624
Today was not my greatest performance yet I do not think that it warranted being told that Emergency Medicine is not the right fit for me.
What a hard ass of an attending. Interesting that the other attendings had constructive criticism and said I did well.
Gabriel S. Lerman, M.S.
UMDNJ-School of Osteopathic Medicine, 2011.
C/O 2011 Honor Code Representative 2009-2011
OPM Board of Directors 2009-2014
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Emergency!
scut monkey
Loc: Michigan
Registered on 04-22-04
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Re: boy did I get stomped on
07-21-10 11:41 PM - Post#69627
In response to gabelerman
Sorry to hear that you had a rough shift, Gabe. Its always tough decide what to do in that situation. If the attending you worked with isn't a person you want a letter from (i.e. clerkship director, program director, etc), then I tend to say shrug it off and move on. If, on the other hand, this attending's opinion could be signifcant on your grades/comments/SLOR, then I would seek him/her out, ask for specific areas to improve on, and then try and seek out another shift with them.
FWIW, I had a horrible shift with an attending who I knew fairly well. I had enough decent shifts with other attendings, that I just decided not to use him for a letter.
Shake it off and knock 'em dead tomorrow. We all have those days, and you'll be fine. 
THE Ohio State University College of Medicine c/o 2010
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gabelerman
Osteopathic Medical Student
Loc: 4th YEAR BABY!!!!!!!
Registered on 07-10-03
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07-22-10 02:08 PM - Post#69631
In response to Emergency!
Thanks, He is not the program or clerkship director. He told me that I was not proactive enough in the 2 shifts he worked with me. Yet, the first shift I was competing with 2 EM residents, an EM intern, an IM resident, and an psych intern to see patients.
Now I would jump on a patient as soon as I saw them on the list, I would ask to do procedures, and I would always know what is going on with my patients, what labs needed to yet be done, what labs were done, did they go to radiology and if the films were up and what they were. I would write up the discharge paperwork and have it all ready for either the attending or the sr resident.
I do not know how he can say that I am not being proactive. Granted, yesterday I was more slow than normal. It may be because I did not like where I was (the facility has a satellite site in the more poor section of the city and the people that go there are very frustrating). He got frustrated with me when I was waiting for him to present and I he told me not to watch him type.
Now that I have licked the wounds from my pride I have the next couple of days off and 1 week to prove him wrong, which I intend to do. I guess one thing that I have to work on is my confidence. This is my first EM rotation and I am learning more about being confident that I can make my patient better. Next I need to redirect my patient to why they are here and are the problems life threatening. If they are not, then back to their own doctors.
The first one is always the roughest
Gabriel S. Lerman, M.S.
UMDNJ-School of Osteopathic Medicine, 2011.
C/O 2011 Honor Code Representative 2009-2011
OPM Board of Directors 2009-2014
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onawingandaprayer
OMS to be
Loc: Cary, IL
Registered on 06-15-10
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07-23-10 12:01 PM - Post#69644
In response to gabelerman
no scaring the almost oms-1...lol
now go back and prove him wrong!!!
Becky - mom and student
my three: s (11), d (7), a (4)
MWU-IL Masters in Biomedical Sciences class of 2010
CCOM class of 2014
"What a long, strange trip it has been" - Grateful Dead
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campkel
Loc: Bay Area, CA
Registered on 02-18-07
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07-29-10 10:50 AM - Post#69702
In response to onawingandaprayer
That's rough, Gabe - I'm sure you did great this week.
"Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.
From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy." A. Einstein
Enlisted US Air Force followed by 5-year Community College while working
Then UC Berkeley Physics degree followed by
10 years of R&D work.
Last 2-years night school post-bach program
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gabelerman
Osteopathic Medical Student
Loc: 4th YEAR BABY!!!!!!!
Registered on 07-10-03
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07-29-10 01:53 PM - Post#69704
In response to campkel
basically, he was the only one that told me this and everyone else I spoke to told me different. There are going to be people that you do not mesh with. However, it did light a fire under my belly and everything has been great since then.
Gabriel S. Lerman, M.S.
UMDNJ-School of Osteopathic Medicine, 2011.
C/O 2011 Honor Code Representative 2009-2011
OPM Board of Directors 2009-2014
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Emergency!
scut monkey
Loc: Michigan
Registered on 04-22-04
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07-29-10 11:25 PM - Post#69715
In response to gabelerman
Yep - and that's actually one of the great things about EM. If you don't mesh with one attending, you can still do well on the rotation and get overall positive comments.
THE Ohio State University College of Medicine c/o 2010
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gabelerman
Osteopathic Medical Student
Loc: 4th YEAR BABY!!!!!!!
Registered on 07-10-03
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07-30-10 03:42 PM - Post#69725
In response to Emergency!
Being that I just woke up from a 11p-7a shift, I am about to have breakfast. But more importantly, last night my shift was with the program director.
I worked my butt to the core last night. And it paid off with her feedback. In addition to being on top of everything my patients were going through, I was able to staple a head laceration secondary to a scooter accident, suture another head laceration, put a NasalGastric tube in to assess for gastric bleeding, and splint a hand. Told a drunk patient nicely, but sternly to shut up and lay down for his CT, which he did and overall had a great night. Most important of all, the director was impressed.
One more shift and this rotation is in the books. Hopefully it will result in an interview.
Stay Thirsty my friends.
Gabriel S. Lerman, M.S.
UMDNJ-School of Osteopathic Medicine, 2011.
C/O 2011 Honor Code Representative 2009-2011
OPM Board of Directors 2009-2014
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terra_incognita
Loc: Chicago, IL
Registered on 11-22-09
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08-01-10 09:29 AM - Post#69753
In response to gabelerman
Wow ... intense! Congrats on such a great shift. I hope you do get that interview!
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Kate429
CNM
Loc: virginia
Registered on 05-11-07
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08-01-10 06:28 PM - Post#69765
In response to gabelerman
Way to "get back on the horse" so to speak!
Good luck on getting that interview!
Kate
Kate ("Licia")
Biology major at Western Maryland College
BSN from University of Maryland
Certificate in Nurse-Midwifery at Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing
MSN from Case Western
Post-bacc premed at UVA
1st-year med student,Class of 2014 at WVSOM
"All's well and all will be well, and all manner of things will be well" C.S. Lewis |
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