Yasaman

🌸 Internal Medicine Resident @usask | I like kidneys and cookies | incoming Nephrology Fellow @WesternU

[Gillian Hawker @UofTDoMChair]

Disheartened that @Royal_College denied IM PGY3s request to change exam. You've been with us day/night through this pandemic - exhausted & frustrated, can imagine how crushing this news has been. @UofT_DoM @UofTPGME have your backs/advocating to chg this decision. Hang in there!

[Jessica @Jessica52188453]

@Royal_College When we’re needed, we’re #HealthcareHeroes. When we’re not, we’re invisible. Having our pleas go unheeded regarding the @Royal_College IM exam is demoralizing. If you’re wondering what leads to physician burnout, it’s this. #FrontlineAndForgotten #RCLetsTalk @ResidentDoctors

[Vanessa @V_Wheeler004]

We requested a shred of sympathy. Postpone our exams. Your response? To completely disregard us and continue as suits you best. 2/2
#FrontlineAndForgotten #RCLetsTalk #MedTwitter @CBCNews @CBCTheNational @nationalpost

[Sarah Silverberg @slsilverberg]

Residents have been struggling with increased clinical demands, high burnout, lack of supports, and their voices have gone unheard #frontlineandforgotten

[Amanda Oro @AmandaOro79]

@Royal_College Mental health is not your priority. You canceled the oral exam for our colleagues last spring when the pandemic was in its infancy. The option to defer the exam at that time would have been possible, yet you chose to cancel the oral exam due to the “extraordinary circumstances.”

[Tara Swami @t_swam]

btw we have ZERO details on how how this virtual exam will be conducted. How is that helpful for resident wellness? Meanwhile @Royal_College has the audacity to tweet about mental wellbeing on #BellLetsTaIk day...

[Amol Verma @AmolAVerma]

I hope @Royal_College is considering making accomodations for licensing exams this year, and listening to Residents about their needs. Residents have been an essential part of pandemic response and have borne unprecedented stresses. Let's show our appreciation and support.

[Lindsay Melvin @LMelvinMD]

Disappointed to hear @Royal_College response to resident advocacy efforts & want to extend my support to the residents who have been integral to the pandemic response, under immense pressure and adapting to a wildly different residency training experience. We see you. Thank you.

[Tehmina Ahmad MD FRCPC MScCH @TehminaAhmadMD]

Frontline R3 IM residents are working 26/7 to care for patients & their families. They spend countless hours fielding the brunt of covid19. @Royal_College these are extraordinary times calling for extraordinary solutions - hear their voices, feel their fatigue, show compassion.

[Tara Swami @t_swam]

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...?

[Leigh Minuk @LeighMinuk]

This cohort of residents covered for us last year countless times, had their electives canceled, and then spent the year looking after COVID-19 patients. Years after the exam, physicians talk about how hard studying for the exam was... try doing it in a pandemic.

[Ann Marie McKenna @am_mckenna]

@WynnPetersonMD @Royal_College Residents are heroes who haven’t had any pandemic pay from day one and who are seeing their pre-exam “light rotations” evaporate as they get redeployed to covid wards. They deserve better cc @Royal_College @fordnation @PARO_tweets

[John Neary @jddneary]

The spring 2021 cohort is likely in an even worse position to take exams than their 2020 counterparts. Their training has been disrupted for a year while they were on the front lines.

The pandemic was their examination.

https://t.co/12nUJYT8W5

[Humza Mahmood @mahmoodh22]

@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

[Tara Swami @t_swam]

@GitauMahiri @Royal_College More importantly, how does a virtual oral exam in any way reflect our abilities as Internists? This redundancy just suits their "stakeholders"