Grueling hours and you work extra before and after every shift to be ready to round as a group at 7a, and you cannot log or report those extra hours you work so you remain "compliant" with an 80 hr per week limit. And when you finish rounding at night you have to stay after handing off the patients so you can put in mew orders and notes you are told to add on at the evening sign out. And you have to study and work on clinic notes and a research project at home after you are "off", so you are literally given NO time to gave a life or time to care for yourself out of the hospital. And the culture is cruel between the girls. They are evil to anyone they can take out their anger on. It is less about teaching and learning than it is about shaming and surviving. The toxic nurses on L&D play favorites and are lazy. The program does not teach about offering abortion as an option whenever there is an "oops" pregnancy. The preconception counseling does not include genetic screening just because it is not known or taught (and really you only know what you are taught in residency since every place has their culture). So it is like the blind leading the blind. For SROM admissions, they do not just start pitocin; they still do Bishop Scoring and oral cytotec (aka. miso) which is no longer ACOG's recommendation. The program's attending staff have so much of their own drama under the regime of a man Dr. Juan Lopez, that will destroy any of his colleague's careers so he won't be terminated since he is from Bakersfield and does not want to ever leave, and this is the only gig in town. He has fired brilliant attendings and kept on his friends that are mean and teach only to their favorites... everyone is bitter their. It's Bakersfield. I was bitter too. lol.
