Current Events > I think I am accepting the fact that I am completely wasted potential

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JustMyOpinion posted...

It's only when you've lost everything that you're free to do anything

OK tyler
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MrPeppers posted...

I think it just takes a special kind of person to be that driven. I was a very driven, extra mile worker but after the beat down my attendings started dealing out on a daily basis, and after being reminded of all of the extra expectations on top of getting through a day at workneed to show a study plan with an improvement course and to stick to it, an administrative plan, a constant update on my research which they want to be as complex as possibleI just recently said fuck it, I just need to get through and join a private group afterwards.

Its incredibly liberating, but a little disheartening knowing that Im not viewed as the best and wont be a subspecialty candidate.

Can you translate this from doctor to english for us?

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Once you finish medical school you enter a training period called residency before you can practice independently. Your bosses are attending physicians, or attendings for short, who have already finished residency and are capable of practicing independently.

Residency is very extensive and is notorious for being a mental and physical beat down where you work incredibly long hours and are constantly put through a ringer where you are yelled at and told how incompetent you are. Its kind of in a weird sense like an old school military boot camp, although recent regulations have made it a lot better.

In residency on top of seeing patients and doing surgery, you are expected to do research and perform well on yearly in-service exams, especially if you want to enter a subspecialty, which is extended training in a sub field. For example, Im doing OB/Gyn, but Im interested in Gyn cancer and that would require 4 additional years of training after residency, and its extremely competitive. On top of that, you become an administrator for your lower levels and all of their fuckups fall back on you.

Its learning to deal with lose-lose, and I just dont have the drive to push this much farther beyond being a benign gynecologist at this point.
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MrPeppers posted...

Once you finish medical school you enter a training period called residency before you can practice independently. Your bosses are attending physicians, or attendings for short, who have already finished residency and are capable of practicing independently.

Residency is very extensive and is notorious for being a mental and physical beat down where you work incredibly long hours and are constantly put through a ringer where you are yelled at and told how incompetent you are. Its kind of in a weird sense like an old school military boot camp, although recent regulations have made it a lot better.

In residency on top of seeing patients and doing surgery, you are expected to do research and perform well on yearly in-service exams, especially if you want to enter a subspecialty, which is extended training in a sub field. For example, Im doing OB/Gyn, but Im interested in Gyn cancer and that would require 4 additional years of training after residency, and its extremely competitive. On top of that, you become an administrator for your lower levels and all of their fuckups fall back on you.

Its learning to deal with lose-lose, and I just dont have the drive to push this much farther beyond being a benign gynecologist at this point.

Sounds absolutely brutal - they'll probably end up in the hospital themselves after doing this

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Yeah, I firmly believe that most physicians have some serious personality disorder on some level.
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MrPeppers posted...

Yeah, I firmly believe that most physicians have some serious personality disorder on some level.

Do you think this type of training is necessary for the residents to learn? Or it's just a game of sorts. How could it be better?
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It would really be something if five years from now you were playing bass in a band.
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Fursona has been warned
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