Meaningful Scut Work

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Article

Publication Date

9-2013

Abstract

As the week came to a close Friday evening, I was leaving the office a little later than usual. I passed by the preceptor office and observed several of our residents still at work intently engaged with their computers. In years past when I was program director, I took some personal pride in passing the same room after hours and finding it full of our doctors in training chatting back and forth about unusual patient encounters, the stresses of residency, or the latest events of their lives. They stayed late because they were enjoying the opportunity to spend the extra time together. By contrast, the present group held expressions that clearly indicated they would prefer to be any place but where they were.

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© 2013 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. Used by permission.

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