Rocked my Surgery and Family Medicine shelf exams! Spent the weekend celebrating ... which was much needed. I am not crazy about my current rotation, Internal Medicine, which is 1 hour of rounds followed by 11 hours of waiting for something to happen. Every. Day.
So, I was happy to let loose this weekend. Friday night was champagne and hot tubbing. Saturday was spent hanging with my baby sistah who just had major surgery last week. Today was the first beach day of the year!! Woohoo! It was a beautiful day down in the OC. Newport was exceptionally crowded, and we didn't go to our secret getaway beach because traffic was horrendous. But I did get to spend several hours lounging by the surf.
This week is my last in IM -- next week I begin my psych rotation! Looking forward to that!
And on a last note: I finish medical school one year from tomorrow!! Yes, only 366 days left -- but who's counting???
Posted by LA at April 13, 2008 11:05 PMYou summed up my current experience in IM perfectly... round, look at labs, wait for labs to change, round again, go home, start all over. Oh wait, I forgot to mention med lists and problem lists that take three pages each to write out. Dear me. I guess I am learning a lot, but the excitement factor isn't quite there. I suppose this rotation is kind of like the spinach of medicine. It's not the best thing on your plate but you eat it anyway because it's supposed to me good for you.
Amen to 366 days left! Woo hoo!
Posted by: Mandi on April 16, 2008 04:45 PMHey you! So GREAT to hear from you!!! God I miss seeing everyone. But not being parked in those biomechanically disadvantageous chairs for 8 hrs a day. ;)
IM sucks. Gotta say the learning has been nil. I learned a ton on my OMM/FP rotation, and all the others have been outstanding. But this one - nada. I've perfected the H&P. And learned to not have an MI when my resident storms into the call room at 2.30am, without knocking or calling, because he forgot to review an H&P with me so I could finally dictate. Sigh.
It really is 11 hours of waiting to do admits, which take about 1 hr each. I do about 2-3 a day. Yawn. WIth all this down time, I better rock my next set of shelf exams!!!