Specialty Disrespect Posters
Posters on This Page
Family Medicine
Image description: Background is in black and white and is a paper cut out of family and stethoscope. Top header in light green. Text in dark green.
Text: “Specialty Disrespect” in bold at the top. Underneath this title reads “One element of the hidden curriculum, encompassing unwarranted, negative, and denigrating comments made by trainees and physicians about different specialties. (Alston, 2019).”
Poster that mimics an iPhone messaging screen with fictional statements as “receiving” grey message bubbles and factual statements as “sent” blue message bubbles. This poster is about family medicine. The fictional side has two bubbles and reads “Only people who fail STEP 1 go into Family Medicine” and “Family physicians are not smart enough to handle complex patients” and the factual response reads “The average matched family medicine Step 1 score is well above passing. We diagnose and treat many illnesses and have the expertise to identify which patients would benefit from specialty care.” The next fictional bubble reads “Family medicine is lame and boring” and the factual bubble reads “Full scope family medicine encompasses care of patients from first to final breath. Some providers perform wellness and acute visits in the morning and then deliver babies or complete office procedures in the afternoon.”
Surgery
Image description: Background is in black and white and is image of surgeons operating on patient. Top header in light blue. Text in navy.
Text: “Specialty Disrespect” in bold at the top. Underneath this title reads “One element of the hidden curriculum, encompassing unwarranted, negative, and denigrating comments made by trainees and physicians about different specialties. (Alston, 2019).”
Poster that mimics an iPhone messaging screen with fictional statements as “receiving” grey message bubbles and factual statements as “sent” blue message bubbles. This poster is about surgery. The fictional side has three bubbles in a row and reads “Surgeons work for the rich lifestyle,” “surgeons don’t care about patients,” and “Surgeons are arrogant.” The factual response has two bubbles and reads “Surgeons often spend just as much time in the clinic as the OR, and many establish long-term relationships with patients with chronic illness” and “Surgical attendings involved with education care deeply about residents both in and out of the hospital and are excellent mentors.”
Internal Medicine
Image description: Background is in black and white and is a group of three physicians walking down hallway. Top header in light purple. Text in dark purple.
Text: “Specialty Disrespect” in bold at the top. Underneath this title reads “One element of the hidden curriculum, encompassing unwarranted, negative, and denigrating comments made by trainees and physicians about different specialties. (Alston, 2019).”
Poster that mimics an iPhone messaging screen with fictional statements as “receiving” grey message bubbles and factual statements as “sent” blue message bubbles. This poster is about internal medicine. The fictional side reads “Internal medicine is for people who love to talk about patient problems all day,” and the factual response reads “We have the privilege to serve all of our patients on the frontlines. Teaching attendings are invaluable to creating the very best specialists who also need a solid foundation of Internal Medicine knowledge.” The next two fictional bubbles read “Internal Medicine Hospitalists get all the patients that no one else wants to deal with” and “You don’t want to follow someone else’s orders all day.” The response reads “In order to provide the best care for patients, we consult specialty teams for input in management.”
Pediatrics
Image description: Background is in black and white and is a photo of an older Black female physician interacting with a Black toddler. Top header is in light green. Text in dark green.
Text: “Specialty Disrespect” in bold at the top. Underneath this title reads “One element of the hidden curriculum, encompassing unwarranted, negative, and denigrating comments made by trainees and physicians about different specialties. (Alston, 2019).”
Poster that mimics an iPhone messaging screen with fictional statements as “receiving” grey message bubbles and factual statements as “sent” blue message bubbles. This poster is about pediatrics. The fictional side has one bubble that reads “Only people with low STEP 1 scores go into pediatrics” and the factual response reads “We chose to go into pediatrics to provide care for children, and among allopathic seniors matching into pediatrics in 2020, more than half score >231 on Step 1.” The next fictional bubble reads “Pediatrics… not worth the money,” and the factual bubble reads “While most of us probably didn’t enter the field guided by finances, pediatricians’ incomes are still better off than 95% of the U.S. population.”
Psychiatry
Image description: Background is in black and white and is a patient talking and physician taking notes on clipboard. Top header in red. Text in navy.
Text: “Specialty Disrespect” in bold at the top. Underneath this title reads “One element of the hidden curriculum, encompassing unwarranted, negative, and denigrating comments made by trainees and physicians about different specialties. (Alston, 2019).”
Poster that mimics an iPhone messaging screen with fictional statements as “receiving” grey message bubbles and factual statements as “sent” blue message bubbles. This poster is about Psychiatry. The fictional side reads “You must have low STEP scores if you’re considering Psych,” and the factual response reads, “We chose to enter this specialty to care for patients with mental health disorders.” The next fictional statement reads “Psych isn’t a real medical specialty,” and the factual responses read “Psychiatrists have completed 4 years of medical school and 4 years of residency to diagnose and treat mental health disorders” and “The cognitive based therapies and medications that we prescribe are evidence-based interventions.”
Dermatology
Image description: Background in black and white is a pair of hands examining a mole on someone’s back. Top header in blue-green with black text.
Text: “Specialty Disrespect” in bold at the top. Underneath this title reads “One element of the hidden curriculum, encompassing unwarranted, negative, and denigrating comments made by trainees and physicians about different specialties. (Alston, 2019).”
Poster that mimics an iPhone messaging screen with fictional statements as “receiving” grey message bubbles and factual statements as “sent” blue message bubbles. This poster is about Dermatology. The fictional side reads, “Dermatologists just prescribe creams and ointments all day,” and the factual response reads “Dermatologists have a deep knowledge of medicine and how various disease states manifest in the skin – not everything is just skin-deep!” The next fictional side reads “People only go into derm to avoid working hard.” The factual response reads “Clinic can be very fast paced and challenging – many clinic visits can entail delicate procedures, and many dermatologists work in hospitals and take call as well.”
OB-GYN
Image description: Background is in black and white and is a female physician and patient interacting. Top header is in light green. Text is in dark green.
Text: “Specialty Disrespect” in bold at the top. Underneath this title reads “One element of the hidden curriculum, encompassing unwarranted, negative, and denigrating comments made by trainees and physicians about different specialties. (Alston, 2019).”
Poster that mimics an iPhone messaging screen with fictional statements as “receiving” grey message bubbles and factual statements as “sent” blue message bubbles. This poster is about OB-GYN. The fictional side reads “OB/GYNs are not real surgeons,” and the factual response reads “An OB-GYN performs 2 of the 5 most common surgeries in the country, cesarean sections and hysterectomies” and “Surgery on reproductive organs IS surgery. It is time that the surgeries performed exclusively on women and the surgeons who perform them are no longer marginalized.”
Pathology
Image description: Background is image of hemangioblastoma. Top header is in pink with blue text.
Text: “Specialty Disrespect” in bold at the top. Underneath this title reads “One element of the hidden curriculum, encompassing unwarranted, negative, and denigrating comments made by trainees and physicians about different specialties. (Alston, 2019).”
Poster that mimics an iPhone messaging screen with fictional statements as “receiving” grey message bubbles and factual statements as “sent” blue message bubbles. This poster is about pathology. The fictional side reads “Go into path if you’re anti-social and don’t want to talk with patients,” and the factual response reads “While more time is spent in the lab than in a clinic, pathologists can deliver delicate diagnoses to patients and help clarify reports for patients and providers.” The next fictional response reads, “Who would become a doctor just to be a pathologist?” and the response reads, “Pathology has a strikingly wide scope. It encompasses areas ranging from molecular diagnostics to clinical chemistry to forensic pathology.’
Emergency Medicine
Image description: Background in color is image of ambulance driving past. Top header in red. Text in yellow.
Text: “Specialty Disrespect” in bold at the top. Underneath this title reads “One element of the hidden curriculum, encompassing unwarranted, negative, and denigrating comments made by trainees and physicians about different specialties. (Alston, 2019).”
Poster that mimics an iPhone messaging screen with fictional statements as “receiving” grey message bubbles and factual statements as “sent” blue message bubbles. This poster is about emergency medicine. The fictional side reads “Emergency medicine doctors aren’t specialized in any one field of medicine,” and the factual response reads, “Actually, there are several specialties such as toxicology, disaster medicine and critical care, and EM doctors are experts in resuscitation, poison control and airway management!” The next fictional bubble reads “EM docs just order unnecessary imaging and call consults instead of evaluating patients,” and the response reads “Imaging can be helpful for ruling out any potentially life-threatening conditions.”