Young Doctors Learn Quickly in the Hot Seat
Wednesday, March 15th, 2006 at 4:16 pm
Young Doctors Learn Quickly in the Hot Seat - "Does grilling medical students with questions make them into better doctors? For years, many professors routinely peppered students with relevant and arcane queries, often embarrassing them. Things may be gentler today, but the practice, referred to as the "pimping" of students, still has its advocates." (via KevinMD.)
While a little bit of "pimping" goes on at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital, it is hardly malicious in nature, and most of the time the questions are things we should know, rather than the arcane details asked on exams.
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I especially liked the quote in that article where they talked about the “growing literature on “medical student abuse,” which criticized the practice and other hazing rituals for traumatizing and dehumanizing vulnerable medical students.”
yep, pretty much sums up how I feel about med school, and I haven’t even gotten to the pimping stage yet.
Well, basic sciences exams are pimping in the written, rather than oral, form. I mean they definitely qualify for medical student abuse. (Especially when the professor puts questions on there relating to their pet research project. How does knowing anything about oxygen consumption in blow-fly flight muscles have anything to do with being a good, knowledgeable physician?)