UMaryland Vacancy

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Heard about PGY 6 vacancy at University of Maryland Neurosurgery. Anyone know anything about the program?

[Guest]

they are not filling the open position per the PD

[Guest]

Why wouldn’t they fill it?

[Guest]

does anyone know what happened. Current med student new on these forums. How does a PGY6 spot just open?

[Guest]

The previous PGY6 was a nutjob

[Guest]

^^^
Really? Was he? and it took them 6 years to find out?

[Guest]

There are definitely some factors at play here. It's highly likely the PGY6 resident did something egregious (think assault, harassment) or just couldn't get their act together in terms of competency even after multiple warnings. We're talking things like lacking surgical finesse, coming unprepared to cases, making bad calls in and out of the operating room, blatant laziness – sometimes it's a mix of all these. And more often than not, these residents just have ingrained behavioral problems that can't be fixed.

Firing a resident is a big deal. It's a hassle for the program, and there's always the potential for legal repercussions, so nobody goes into it lightly. Most programs bend over backwards to give residents chances to improve, which can sometimes drag the process out all the way to PGY6 or even beyond. In hindsight, it's easy to say, "Why didn't they fire that resident sooner?" But reality is, the decision to fire a resident is not easy.

[Guest]

(06-11-2024, 09:02 AM)Guest Wrote: There are definitely some factors at play here. It's highly likely the PGY6 resident did something egregious (think assault, harassment) or just couldn't get their act together in terms of competency even after multiple warnings. We're talking things like lacking surgical finesse, coming unprepared to cases, making bad calls in and out of the operating room, blatant laziness – sometimes it's a mix of all these. And more often than not, these residents just have ingrained behavioral problems that can't be fixed.

Firing a resident is a big deal. It's a hassle for the program, and there's always the potential for legal repercussions, so nobody goes into it lightly. Most programs bend over backwards to give residents chances to improve, which can sometimes drag the process out all the way to PGY6 or even beyond. In hindsight, it's easy to say, "Why didn't they fire that resident sooner?" But reality is, the decision to fire a resident is not easy.

Agreed. The last time our program fired a resident (many years ago), it was a finishing PGY-6 going on 7, who had had pretty egregious problems for years. Lack of personal responsibility and just doing some really sketchy things, making really obvious judgement errors (and I'm not talking about patient care decision making here). It is not done lightly and it often takes years of building a case with incontrovertible evidence