Team work is a big subject, and working in teams may help achieve superior healthcare to patients, however, teamwork comes with a price tag: you have to adjust your person to fit in. That is a lot for fresh graduates who used to finish most assignments and complete the studies by their-selves. The Family Medicine Professional Choices FMProC/CProMF (Choix professionnels en Médecine de famille) assesses Teamwork ethics in applicants for Family Medicine PGY1 training roles.
Today we continue the take on team work ethics and discuss this familiar and frequent scenarios that PGY1s face in their work lives.
While your previous rotation was an easy family medicine rotation, this current one is taking a lot of your time and energy. Your supervisor is an excellent teaching figure, and while he does fantastic job in sculpting your clinical knowledge with hands-on experience and sensitive feedback, you still have to complete his medical direction, patient notes and follow-up. Now he visit you before leaving ask you to prepare a presentation for next day clinical meeting in hospital. You already know that he will present, and you are helping with only the materials. You still have a lot of clinical noting to be done. How should you react, rank on a scale of appropriateness, most-appropriate on top while least-appropriate would be on bottom.
Question
- ask you supervisor for participating in presenting part of the material
- agree to his request if he can increase your clinical work and take off some of patient notes documentation
- inform you program director of your supervisor's unfair attitude
- refuse the request
- do nothing and go with the flow; completing the presentation
Answer:
as a PGY1, your efforts, many times, does not go in parallel with your prospects. However, this should not prevent you from seeking what is fair to you. Dealing with tricky situation is somewhat difficult since it involve you as a person and your supervisor. The best policy is negotiation, the worst is escalating to Program Director.
1-ask you supervisor for participating in presenting part of the material
2-do nothing and go with the flow; completing the presentation
3-agree to his request if he can increase your clinical work and take off some of patient notes documentation
4-refuse the request
5-inform you program director of your supervisor's unfair attitude