This is unbelievably tone deaf of the Royal College and questions the credibility of messaging regarding support for COVID response and resident wellness. How can we ask residents to disrupt their training to answer the call to help when we aren't willing to have their backs???
@Royal_College These past 3 weeks: 5x 26hr shifts + 2x weekend shifts + M-F 8am-6pm including COVID deaths right before my eyes + increasing admission numbers. Tell me when do I get time for mental health + wellness? Oh and studying? #frontlineandforgotten#RCLetsTalk#medtwitter
I would hope that the faculty and hospital administrations who have depended on their hard work this years (and before) will support them to convince @Royal_College to accommodate them. We owe them that level of respect and appreciation. @WynnPetersonMD
I don't think the @Royal_College cares about residents and patients at all. I remember being an R3 last March as things were ramping up, they were reluctant to postpone the exam which added to the stress of the unknown. 1/n
I don't think the @Royal_College cares about residents and patients at all. I remember being an R3 last March as things were ramping up, they were reluctant to postpone the exam which added to the stress of the unknown. 1/n
@Royal_College What’s most frustrating is the lack of transparency about why unanimous pleas of all IM residents have not been accommodated in the slightest. You have rendered us powerless, and our voices don’t matter. Please provide some rationale for throwing us back in the fire. @CBCNews
Perhaps @Royal_College should take a page from the @TheUSMLE, who have taken the opportunity this pandemic to reflect on the actual utility of a “modified” oral exam - similar to what we’d be put through. How is Canada so behind...?
@Royal_College the tone deaf nature of this post is dumb founding. You refuse to listen to front line residents that they are drowning and need a delay in their exams and then@post this?? Who listens to the front line as we weep with our patients? Clearly not you!!
@Royal_College The oral exam should be cancelled permanently for the present PGY2 and PGY3 cohort who have worked 26h on call without relief, lost electives, isolated from family, with immense mental health pressure from an unrelenting pandemic. We stepped up. Pls help us.