tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11326364.post1989673087184424155..comments2024-03-27T03:58:43.402-04:00Comments on <center>CasesBlog - Medical and Health Blog</center>: Medscape Video Editorial on "Pimping" Medical StudentsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11326364.post-32222345292005099222008-08-31T21:27:00.000-04:002008-08-31T21:27:00.000-04:00I'm so tired of the pimping from medical school to...I'm so tired of the pimping from medical school to residency. It often seems mean and more about hazing than about learning. I really love learning and appreciate the time some attendings take to teach us. Yet too often the abused become abusers. How would,the attendings like it if their peers heard what they don't know about a new subject? The process serves to intimidate to the extent that most students/residents won't admit they don't know something since they are being graded by the attending. This is unsafe. Times have changed and with the rapid turnover of pts, signoffs, sheer number of pts, number of labs, number of tests, following docs who are double booked, going home post call, to clinic, etc etc etc. No...residents do NOT have it made. I worked 5 30 hr shifts at Christmas...over 100 hr weeks often. Many of us will likely be jaded...feel entitled the rest of our lives from the suffering just like many attendings. Half of my medical school class admitted in a questionaire that they had contemplated suicide after being kept near failing despite being honors students. Asking questions is okay esp if not grading the student so they can ask questions, pimping is not right. It must stop.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com