Programs do their best to hang on to their house staff, not only for the resident’s sake, but an opening on a program increases the stress on the people that are left.
Dr. Secretwave talks about how hard it is for doctors to get jobs in non-medical fields. It seems that all we know is medicine, and not much else.
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Well, I’m glad someone *else* said it. Medical Education is not nothing, it takes a stong understanding to do well in it, but it is deficient in this respect, and in a way that actually interferes with the practice of medicine – it is narrow, today moreso than ever.
A resident in my eye residency program was let go for habitual lying, and not coming to the ER as required. We were not sorry to see him go, though we did have to cover for him. He was taken up by another residency in another part of the country, who needed the manpower. He was let go from that one too. Do not know what happened after that.
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