xkittens Posted October 24, 2011 Report Share Posted October 24, 2011 http://upalumni.org/medschool/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithril Posted October 24, 2011 Report Share Posted October 24, 2011 Dunno about anyone else but I'm loving school so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goleafsgochris Posted October 24, 2011 Report Share Posted October 24, 2011 IMO real life is midway between what this guy says, and what the super-idealistic "I love med school sooooo much" people say. There are terrible, brutal workload times; but this guy seems way too sensitive to the "de-humanization" that happens in clerkship, which I really didnt find to be a big issue, except with a few very select drs who were total *******s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhoenixFlare500 Posted October 24, 2011 Report Share Posted October 24, 2011 IMO real life is midway between what this guy says, and what the super-idealistic "I love med school sooooo much" people say. There are terrible, brutal workload times; but this guy seems way too sensitive to the "de-humanization" that happens in clerkship, which I really didnt find to be a big issue, except with a few very select drs who were total *******s. That desensitization probably depends on your faculty a lot, I haven't hit clerkship yet but already I've seen some doctors that genuinely care about patients and some doctors who care more about their bottom line. You just gotta pick which ones to model yourself after, carefully. But I'm just a preclerk right now so Idk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebouque Posted October 24, 2011 Report Share Posted October 24, 2011 90% of the doctors that I've met during my 1.5 year of clerkship so far really did care about their patients. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ploughboy Posted October 24, 2011 Report Share Posted October 24, 2011 http://upalumni.org/medschool/ From my brief read-through it sounds pretty accurate... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ploughboy Posted October 24, 2011 Report Share Posted October 24, 2011 Dunno about anyone else but I'm loving school so far. UBC Medicine VFMP 2015 Oh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockey_whiz Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 From my brief read-through it sounds pretty accurate... care to share your own opinion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larrivee Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 I am with Mithril, though we have only had half a semester of exposure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xkittens Posted October 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 The diary's about how the clinical years suck. The guy liked the first 2 years just like you guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhoenixFlare500 Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 The diary's about how the clinical years suck. The guy liked the first 2 years just like you guys I really hope my clinical years don't suck, these first 2 years are just boring undergrad-type schooling except ten times harder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanMaverick Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 I am with Mithril, though we have only had half a semester of exposure We've also done very, very little clinical stuff. An odd tidbit here and there, but for the most part this is general science/physiology kinda stuff. I'm not suggesting it's going to change when the clinical part comes, just that we really have no idea what it might be like. And for the record I'm really enjoying it as well. Except for Doctor, Patient, & Society - those touchy feely courses are just not up my alley and feel like a big waste of time and brain space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lactic Folly Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 I dunno, it sure beat whatever I would have been doing had I not gone to med school... that being said, I have enjoyed residency more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renoir Posted October 27, 2011 Report Share Posted October 27, 2011 Not sure if I believe some of the anecdotes: on the peds section s/he? says that a resident let an intern try getting an LP 5 times from a screaming kid... Sounds fishy to me. What is this, some sort of backwoods hospital? And then s/he? spends minutes deciding whether to report a kid with wheezing, fails to call a code, and then the nurses come in and find him dead? hmmm... It all seems pretty cynical, even for a clerk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochi1543 Posted October 27, 2011 Report Share Posted October 27, 2011 Not sure if I believe some of the anecdotes: And then s/he? spends minutes deciding whether to report a kid with wheezing, fails to call a code, and then the nurses come in and find him dead? hmmm... It all seems pretty cynical, even for a clerk. I think that one was part of a dream sequence. I am not surprised at some of these anecdotes, actually. One of my friends at a US school asked me for help with CaRMS interviews last year, as he was considering coming back to Canada for residency but had some questions about our training. He was genuinely surprised to hear that residents are supervised. He said at his school (which is pretty good), residents are only supervised if they are working with insured patients. If it's a homeless person or someone on Medicare/Medicaid, the residents are just told to "practice" on these patients and do whatever they want to without the attending's input. I was rather disturbed, personally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaronjw Posted October 27, 2011 Report Share Posted October 27, 2011 I think that one was part of a dream sequence. I am not surprised at some of these anecdotes, actually. One of my friends at a US school asked me for help with CaRMS interviews last year, as he was considering coming back to Canada for residency but had some questions about our training. He was genuinely surprised to hear that residents are supervised. He said at his school (which is pretty good), residents are only supervised if they are working with insured patients. If it's a homeless person or someone on Medicare/Medicaid, the residents are just told to "practice" on these patients and do whatever they want to without the attending's input. I was rather disturbed, personally. As I would have been as well. Goes to show the discriminate level of care between the two systems. While the lower income (poor) are a drain on our health systems (facts to back it up so please don't anyone think I am making assumptions) I am glad that these people are treated as equal as someone making $40K, $70K or $100K and it actually repulses me that care in the US functions in such a manner that it does towards those without insurance which can typically be distilled down to the financially depressed because who would willingly go without insurance this day in age if they could afford it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rarkon Posted October 27, 2011 Report Share Posted October 27, 2011 Are you serious? How is no one in the US outraged by this? Maybe it was just that one attending....I certainly hope so. If it's a homeless person or someone on Medicare/Medicaid, the residents are just told to "practice" on these patients and do whatever they want to without the attending's input. I was rather disturbed, personally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renoir Posted October 28, 2011 Report Share Posted October 28, 2011 Are you serious? How is no one in the US outraged by this? Maybe it was just that one attending....I certainly hope so. Like any job with good amounts of dark humour, ths probably gets said alot more than it is practiced. (I hope). I was having a good conversation with a nurse today about this - at least in Edmonton, we seem to have a very good hospital employee culture - not too unethical or dark humoured, decent amount of interdisciplinary respect, somewhat fun ORs. I really hope that these stories are the fringe and that a healthy culture could weed out those situations... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renoir Posted October 28, 2011 Report Share Posted October 28, 2011 I think that one was part of a dream sequence. Oh good call. My VR was waaay down yesterday it seems. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB. Posted October 28, 2011 Report Share Posted October 28, 2011 Good thing it was part of a dream sequence, but had it been real, not exactly the thing you want to put out on the interwebz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ploughboy Posted October 29, 2011 Report Share Posted October 29, 2011 care to share your own opinion? I just did: "From my brief read-through it sounds pretty accurate..." Bonus opinion: I agree with what brooksbane said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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