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Sorry for the confusion: this is a surgery resident/PGY-3, all my interns have been good.
I created a new account to ask how I should deal with this issue. Basically, I'm a 3rd year on my first rotation interested in general surgery with an interest in surgical oncology. I am on a month of general surgery now and the surgery 3rd year has decided to carry out a personal vendetta against me. On rounds for the first week I had no idea how to do stuff and my trackmates seemed to pick up things faster because they're both previous nursing students/physical therapists whereas I always asked him for help. He was super helpful at first and but then referred me to the interns which was reasonable. I started running into problems when during the later weeks when I tried to ask interns things and he would tell me off as if he waited and knew I was going to ask them questions. Then it got a whole lot worse. We were in an open appendectomy and I was getting bored because I could barely see anything but this Dr. ***** decides to start pimping me which I heard he never does with the other students. He asked me why we were doing this procedure and I was only in second week so I just guessed and had been thrown into the OR because the other students said I needed so see my first appendectomy. After that, he unleashed a barrage of pimping on rounds directed to me like why the foley needed to be removed, what labs would we order on the post-operative patients, etc and nothing a student coming off Step 1 should know immediately. I work extremely hard and come in at 345 each day which is earlier than the other students and stay until 6 so I'm sacrificing blood, sweat, and tears and putting my all into this.
On top of all this, I heard from my classmates that this resident was talking about me behind my back which is not only unprofessional but it hurt a lot when I found out. He then humiliated me further recently post-rounds when he asked me in front of the whole group if he could talk alone with me which elicited smirks from everyone which brought me to tears and I literally started crying in front of him which is when he realized he went too far. He asked me why I was interested in surgery and that he was considering an elective week off for personal study basically trying to get rid of me, and basically told me that I was performing significantly worse than my two peers which again is uncalled for true or not. I feel like he had a target on my back ever since I said I wanted to do surgery. In addition, I think it's against our school's policy to take an entire week off as according to our syllabus, we are only given one day off and that's before our shelf so I think if I reported him I could really get him in trouble if I was malicious.
Everyone else on the team is reasonably nice to me with few exceptions which I can understand because they're all sleep deprived. I struggle on presentations and the 4th year above him is super nice to me and takes her time to correct my mistakes and actually waits until I'm done presenting as is the attending who is the only one evaluating me thankfully. Overall though, I'm wondering what I should do because this resident has really shattered my confidence and I just found out he's going to be on rotations with me my next month. Should I request a switch to avoid him and should I mention anything to administration about the resident because while I don't like making excuses, I feel like his presence alone gives me anxiety on rounds.
I created a new account to ask how I should deal with this issue. Basically, I'm a 3rd year on my first rotation interested in general surgery with an interest in surgical oncology. I am on a month of general surgery now and the surgery 3rd year has decided to carry out a personal vendetta against me. On rounds for the first week I had no idea how to do stuff and my trackmates seemed to pick up things faster because they're both previous nursing students/physical therapists whereas I always asked him for help. He was super helpful at first and but then referred me to the interns which was reasonable. I started running into problems when during the later weeks when I tried to ask interns things and he would tell me off as if he waited and knew I was going to ask them questions. Then it got a whole lot worse. We were in an open appendectomy and I was getting bored because I could barely see anything but this Dr. ***** decides to start pimping me which I heard he never does with the other students. He asked me why we were doing this procedure and I was only in second week so I just guessed and had been thrown into the OR because the other students said I needed so see my first appendectomy. After that, he unleashed a barrage of pimping on rounds directed to me like why the foley needed to be removed, what labs would we order on the post-operative patients, etc and nothing a student coming off Step 1 should know immediately. I work extremely hard and come in at 345 each day which is earlier than the other students and stay until 6 so I'm sacrificing blood, sweat, and tears and putting my all into this.
On top of all this, I heard from my classmates that this resident was talking about me behind my back which is not only unprofessional but it hurt a lot when I found out. He then humiliated me further recently post-rounds when he asked me in front of the whole group if he could talk alone with me which elicited smirks from everyone which brought me to tears and I literally started crying in front of him which is when he realized he went too far. He asked me why I was interested in surgery and that he was considering an elective week off for personal study basically trying to get rid of me, and basically told me that I was performing significantly worse than my two peers which again is uncalled for true or not. I feel like he had a target on my back ever since I said I wanted to do surgery. In addition, I think it's against our school's policy to take an entire week off as according to our syllabus, we are only given one day off and that's before our shelf so I think if I reported him I could really get him in trouble if I was malicious.
Everyone else on the team is reasonably nice to me with few exceptions which I can understand because they're all sleep deprived. I struggle on presentations and the 4th year above him is super nice to me and takes her time to correct my mistakes and actually waits until I'm done presenting as is the attending who is the only one evaluating me thankfully. Overall though, I'm wondering what I should do because this resident has really shattered my confidence and I just found out he's going to be on rotations with me my next month. Should I request a switch to avoid him and should I mention anything to administration about the resident because while I don't like making excuses, I feel like his presence alone gives me anxiety on rounds.
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