My Surgery Attending Loved Me - Here’s My Evaluation

Hoover  7 Mar, 2007  Medical School, Surgery

Here’s a copy and paste (with the name changed) of the evaluation that I received on my surgery clerkship. You can tell that this guy absolutely loved my performance.

Hoover showed no interest in this surgical rotation. His fund of knowledge was rudimentary and did not significantly improve. He attended the outpatient clinic and the OR for the most part, but his participation was peripheral in all aspects. He was late to rounds frequently, generally unprepared and had a 2 day unexcused absence.

LOL. That two day unexcused absence was the best two days of the rotation. And for the record, I got permission from the chief resident for the absense. Thanks for the good times, asshole.

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  1. Cherokee said

    March 7 2007 @ 1:06 am

    Ha ha, stupid surgery jerk. I give you an A+ for Surgery for your HONESTY in not liking the specialty. Aren’t physicians supposed to be honest?

  2. Hoover said

    March 7 2007 @ 1:30 am

    That’s one of the problems with surgery - they expect you to a) either really like the specialty, or b) to fake that you like it.

    I actually told my chief resident on the first day of the rotation that I wasn’t interested in surgery when he asked about it. You should’ve seen the look on his face. It was obvious he wasn’t used to that kind of brutal honesty from students. Did that have anything to do with the poor experience on my surgery rotation? Probably so. Did he screw me after I got permission from him for the absense? Absolutely. I honestly didn’t give a shit, though. I made it a point not to cave into their empty threats and bullshit expectations.

    I knew going into surgery how they acted. I knew that I would have a difficult time if I told them the truth, and if that truth wasn’t what they wanted to hear. I was told to play the game and to tell them that I was “possibly interested in surgery, but hadn’t made my final decision” if questioned by the staff.

    Fuck that.

    All surgeons who don’t respect my true expectations in a specialty can kiss my ass. They could kiss it back then, and they can surely kiss it now.

  3. Old MD Girl said

    March 7 2007 @ 10:00 am

    I did have a friend who on her surgery rotation told her attendings she was interested in internal medicine. She didn’t have any problems at all.

    As someone who has taken it up the ass for telling it like it is, it has occurred to me over time that it’s all in the delivery. On the other hand, rubbing their faces in how much you hated medicine, and how they couldn’t really get rid of you even though they hated you, must have been satisfying.

  4. Scott said

    March 7 2007 @ 7:58 pm

    I’m surprised the attending even noticed your “unexcused” absence. My surgery attendings didn’t know my name, let alone give a rip where I was at any given moment.

  5. Hoover said

    March 7 2007 @ 8:06 pm

    Scott, this guy was a textbook surgery attending. You know, the ones you always hear about and hope that you don’t get for a rotation.

    MDGirl, it felt amazing to be able to rub their faces in my distaste for surgery. I enjoyed it in a weird, evil kind of way. =)

  6. Jchan said

    March 7 2007 @ 11:43 pm

    I’m a pre-med and I already know I’ve no interest in surgery, just from hearing about it and reading. EM, IM, possibly OB.. Not surgery. I don’t have the patience, the concentration, or the lack of sanity required for that. I have every intention of being up-front with that on my surgery rotation in med school.. Like, please don’t ask me to do more than the bare minimum, because I really just .. don’t want to. O.o; Let the nutjob kids who like this crap have it. (No offense to any of you nutjobs who may be reading this. >.>)

  7. Parcho said

    March 8 2007 @ 11:29 am

    Hey, at least he knew who you were.

    One of my surgery evals was straight 5’s. (1-7 scale with 7 being best, 1 worst). He left no comments. Basically, he conceeded that he didn’t know me…didn’t care…and passed me anyway.

    Isn’t med school fun?

  8. Hoover said

    March 8 2007 @ 2:24 pm

    JChan - good stuff man, don’t let them pressure you into thinking you’ve got to lie. You’ll be faced with students who are doing a different specialty each time they step foot on a rotation. These students are what I like to refer to as “rotation whores”, because they simply tell the residents and attendings that they plan to go into whatever rotation they’re on for the block.

    Haha Parcho, med school is indeed a blast =)
    I would’ve killed for an attending like that. Out of site, out of mind…

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