During my 2nd clerkship of the year, neurology, I now regret not speaking with the clerkship director about being assigned another attending for outpatient clinic. It was the 2nd half of the month long clerkship and I was initially excited to work exclusively with an attending because I had a huge interest in neurology and did not want to share the attention with classmates.
I did everything I could to show interest in the specialty, was appreciative of the nurses and staff, and practiced quality patient care, etc. However, this neurologist who was objectively a good clinician with their patients turned out to be an apathetic instructor. I had to remind them to allow me in on the telehealth with patients, they would not let me follow them around, would not let me do any procedures or write HPIs, failed to let me know which clinic to be at on days they were not in the regular clinics, would not allow to me to do any neurological examinations, and failed to learn my name (they introduced me incorrectly to patients countless time, which prompted me to correctly say my name, and on the final evaluation, got me name wrong also). In essence, I was their shadow for the clerkship.
At the end of the clerkship, during feedback, I wrote to the program director about the experience to contest the "blah" evaluation. The PD told me to send the feedback to the attending and CC them. I reluctantly did as told, against my better judgement. On par with the course, the attending did not reply to my email. When the attending "redid" my evaluation, nothing changed, and they still had my name incorrect on the re-evaluation.
I thought it was just me and that the attending did not "take" to me. However, later in the year during neurosurgery clerkship, a 5th year neurology fellow confirmed for me that this particular attending was like that with all the residents. Nothing changes...