Dealing with different personalities sin residency
Resident in anesthesia and while I love the job itself, the thing that gets to me sometimes is the difficult personalities in residency.
With anesthesia, we are paired with an attending everyday and the issue is that some of the attendings are great and my day goes by great while others are plain intimidating and just not friendly…
When getting grilled for missing a procedure or getting a pimping question wrong, it does eat at me. I’m actively trying to work on not taking things personally .
On some rotations where we have seniors, the quality of the rotation is dictated by how helpful the senior is.
I understand that this is just a part of residency and it’s a skill I need to get better at dealing with different personalities. How do you all get through those tough days or weeks when you’re working with people/seniors/attendings who aren’t the nicest/most helpful
Posted Mar 14, 2026, 12:26 AM UTC