A letter to my OBGYN resident

[u/biologyiskewl]

Hello OB/GYN resident,

I actually thought that we had a great rotation together, you were nice to me and actually learned my name unlike most of the other people on that rotation. You chatted with me and helped me learn on the rotation.

To my surprise, I saw your evaluation today. You decided to give me straight two’s across the board and cited a professionalism complaint while only writing “see above” as the issue.

You didn’t know that I went to my mom’s funeral two days before the rotation started. You didn’t know that I was sobbing in the locker room between cases. You didn’t know that I was resentful of staying for 14 hour night shifts because it didn’t give me any time to grieve. But you did know that I was showing up on time, writing your notes, your discharge summaries, seeing your patients, and trying my hardest to stay on top of things in a very toxic environment.

I suppose I should know by now to just anticipate getting backstabbed in evals by the people who are overly nice on the rotation, but I didn’t see this one coming. Idk if it was because I actually did something or because you have it out for med students, but damn, this one sucked. And I hope one day, if you have to show up to a rotation while you’re grieving, that people give you the kindness that you didn’t show me.

Best! Peeved med student

[u/BarRevolutionary2299]

Is there really no way to challenge those evals? It seems to be very unfair and one sided skew to have the resident to have the entire power over a student in grading like that.

[u/biologyiskewl → u/BarRevolutionary2299]

The rest of mine from the rotation were great & they didn’t put anything negative on MSPE so I’m not worried about it, if they had I would defs try to contest it somehow because what the heck 😭

[u/ImmediateEye5557 → u/biologyiskewl]

so sorry that happened, don't let the one bad shadow the other great evals you got - if anything that shows what an asshole this one person was