How bad is my situation?
I'm gonna abridge this story as much as i can so its not a wall of text. After typing it, it turns out it's a wall of text anyway. But maybe it will be entertaining for you, idk. Advice would be appreciated.
So I'm on electives for my IM rotation and my fellow who is super chill just said to go home like 20 minutes after I got there becuase it was a super hectic day, and to just come back tomorrow. So I did.
Today, I had my clerkship feedback meeting with the director, and when he asked me what cases I saw, I knew I was cooked. My first instinct was to just make up a BS case, but I'd never seen any cases on general floors specific to this particular specialty and I didn't know the general workflow of my service since it was my first day. I thought of just saying I shadowed but then I knew he would just ask what cases I saw. And I was just sitting there in silence for 7 seconds which at that point there's no way I could've bullshitted him and got away with it.
So I just told him the truth. Long story short, he said it was on me to report this to him since it counts as having a day off and me not doing so would lead to this incident showing up on my mspe comments and professionalism points being docked from my overall score.
The only thing I could do is email him which I will, which he said he'll forward to the grading committee who writes and integrates the comments.
I was also thinking if I honor the rotation and do well on the shelf maybe residencies would take that into consideration, but now him likely taking off points for this incident makes that harder too.
Shooting for DR. How fucked am I? And what else can I do besides email him and pray?
Posted May 12, 2026, 2:42 PM UTC