Why do some Medstudents love to belittle nurses?

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Specializes in LTC.

I have been belittled by medstudents numerous times. the whole "You don't know as much" or "You didn't go to school as long as a doc" always comes up. what is is that they have to prove to me? why do they do this?

Where is the respect??? :mad:

This is a direct quote i received from a medical student

"Ha! Most of you ***s are just registered nurses... which is what most people who can't aspire to anything greater or just can't handle medical school... I may be a student now and you might think high and mighty because youre registered... but one day i'll probably be your boss... so suck it..."

how do i deal with this? i just ignore it, but it sooo unprofessional

I am not in any way talking badly about medical students, i am just wondering if any of you have had this kind of behavior happen, over heard it, etc. and how i should handle this. please no rude responses.

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Specializes in Emergency & Trauma/Adult ICU.

Seriously - when do these conversations come up? The med students in my environment are, for the most part, too busy being run ragged or too engrossed in looking up the 5 things they've just been told to be prepared to present on 1 hour from now to even stop to talk to anyone.

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Specializes in LTC.

This was a conversation outside the hospital, over the internet.

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Specializes in CCU, cardiac tele, NICU.

If a med student said that to me I'd have them written up before they could say "M.D." That's completely inappropriate.

I'm with Altra - most of our med students were either 1. terrified 2. run ragged or 3. quietly asking the nurses how to write such-and-such an order or if a particular drug was a good idea.

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Specializes in CCU, cardiac tele, NICU.
This was a conversation outside the hospital, over the internet.

It's pretty easy to be brave when you're sitting behind a computer screen. It's also pretty easy to be whatever you want - who knows if this person was really a med student?

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Specializes in CNA: LTC & DD.

I'd talk to your NM to talk to their supervisor - obviously these med students don't have enough to do if they have time to be such jerks to nurses!

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Put laxative in their coffee, that should get their head out of their you know what. Plus they will be in the bathroom all day and not bothering you.

When I was in the Navy we had a really obnoxious Chief. So the guys who worked for him put some type of vanilla flavored workout supplement/weight gainer in his vanilla coffee creamer for 7 months while on deployment. The Chief could not figure out why he kept gaining weight and had to buy new uniforms. He ended up failing weigh in for the physical fitness assessment.

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Specializes in LTC.

This is a friend of a friend i met who lives out of state, him and his "medstudent " buddies decided to have a very public "nurses are dumb" rant on facebook. i of course, stepped in very respectfully and told them that it was wrong of them to do this. To which extent, i got this heinous reply from one of his facbook friends. All of whom live out of state.

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Specializes in ICU.

I work at a large teaching hospital and I've found our med students to be polite, friendly, and interested in everything the whole health care team is doing with regard to the patients on their assignment. *shrug*

I've had med students offer to help me clean up incontinent patients before so they could see skin condition and interview the patient while helping!

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That cocky attitude will land them in court one day, because those type of people are going to surely be the ones to make mistakes and end up being sued!! Can't stand a know it all! Besides that, there is NO way they could do what they need to do without nurses and one day their smart a**es will realize that!!!!!!!!!!

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Specializes in LTC/Rehab.
When I was in the Navy we had a really obnoxious Chief. So the guys who worked for him put some type of vanilla flavored workout supplement/weight gainer in his vanilla coffee creamer for 7 months while on deployment. The Chief could not figure out why he kept gaining weight and had to buy new uniforms. He ended up failing weigh in for the physical fitness assessment.

Hmmm, reminds me of that movie 'Mean Girls'. The movie was based on a group of catty, high-schoolers.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Med students are just that "students." They are usually in their 20's with little to no life experience.

Consider the source and ignore it. There are bigger fish to fry.

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