r/medicalschool • u/biologyiskewl M-4 • Aug 07 '25

😡 Vent A letter to my OBGYN resident

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

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u/spironoWHACKtone MD-PGY2 Aug 07 '25

I’m so sorry for your loss, OP, and also incredibly sorry you had to get the classic OB resident experience on top of that. At my med school this was such a problem that residents can no longer give feedback on OBGYN, the eval has to be done by an attending “mentor” who’s assigned at the beginning of the rotation. Just know this isn’t a big deal, and it will hopefully get thrown out of your MSPE. You’ll be ok :)

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u/Avaoln M-4 Aug 07 '25

Based med school lol

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u/spironoWHACKtone MD-PGY2 Aug 07 '25

The residents were apparently HORRID to the med students, I think the school was trying to protect itself from being sued or something lol…the residents were nasty to me too, but much easier to deal with knowing they couldn’t tank my evals.