Well hell, still time to fall in love then.
Might I recommend Hobart. If you DON'T take off days to go take tests or interview, the preceptor asks you why not. Furnished apt, bigger than the first one my wife and I shared. Free meals, albeit hosp food. Pretty much zero responsibility, and free reign to follow whoever. 8ish to 5ish, sometimes less, sometimes more if you want.
Sounds pretty cool except I need a pretty decent amount of time to study and that sounds like more responsibility than I'm willing to devote.I did my rural in Altus. I wouldn't call it a vacation or blow off location, but I definitely liked it. You work with a family physician. Most days are 7ish to 5ish. If he has patients in the hospital (0-3, usually), you round on them together in the morning then go to clinic. He does his own OB, including C-sections. I got to scrub in on three during the month, with about 4 or 5 vaginal deliveries. They put me up in a hotel and gave me free meals at the hospital cafeteria.
He had to go do an emergent C-section one afternoon, so I got to run the clinic practically by myself for about 2 hours.
Well hell, still time to fall in love then.
Might I recommend Hobart. If you DON'T take off days to go take tests or interview, the preceptor asks you why not. Furnished apt, bigger than the first one my wife and I shared. Free meals, albeit hosp food. Pretty much zero responsibility, and free reign to follow whoever. 8ish to 5ish, sometimes less, sometimes more if you want.
Still, it's the OR and there is trauma though I don't really know what all the 3rd year does on the rotation - haven't really talked to anyone who's taken it.
Thanks for the words of wisdom.
My chosen career will make 4am a wake up time for the remainder of my working days instead of a bedtime, which is unfortunate. Good luck on TB.
Just trying to come up with a way to fit it all in... The one below leaves out the medicine/cardiac icu, but I may do that instead of clinical cardio depending on what The Boss suggests when I meet with him on Monday.
I agree. The Boss was tutor for the rotation and he took us out for lunch in bricktown and ice cream afterward on our last day with him. Along the way, there were two girls in there 20s-30s who were wearing graduation garb taking photos of each other by the buffalo at the ballpark. He stopped and asked if they'd like him to take their picture. It was such a simple random act of kindness and I absolutely love him for it.
Those exceptions are why The Boss is anti-aways. He thinks that whether or not your away will help you match is 50-50. If you don't stand out, or more importantly, you make one mistake in after a month of rock staring it, then you blew a month. I don't disagree with his sentiment, but I actually want to do an away more for the experience of spending a month in a new town and seeing how things are done outside of OK more than trying to make a good impression and match. I almost rather go somewhere I don't stand a chance matching so I can just go, learn, and not worry too much about having to rock star it.
It was a big thing for me back then.
I did my rural in Altus. I liked it. You definitely work, but you have a lot of opportunity to do things independently, if you want.
Clinic mostly from 8 to 5. You come in early to round on patients if he's got anyone in the hospital. He does his own OB, so I also got to help with 4 or 5 deliveries and C-sections. You can scrub as the first assist, if you want. I did the pediatric side of the OB stuff, so that was fun.
I think the most he ever had was 3 inpatients. I did my first H&P dictations there, as well.
Hmm... For the most part it's pretty standard family medicine.
You get to eat free in the cafeteria. I don't know anything about the house. They put me up in a hotel since the house wasn't wheelchair accessible.
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Think he'll be ok with my skipping out the first Thursday & Friday for CS in Houston? And skipping out near the end of the month for CK?
Thanks for responding. I've missed the advice from our upperclassmen. I guess you lose that when you become the upperclassmen.
You should be fine. Dr. Sheets is one of the nicest docs I've ever worked with.
I think psych is going to drive me out of my mind, but as long as the hours are easy it's okay. Got assigned to the ortho trauma service next week so that should be cool.
Tell him Nick says hello from Pittsburgh.
Are you getting excited about the move to WV? Im sure you can hardly wait to get to the dark room...
Also, as the chief resident mentioned, "most rotations are 8 to 5." Somebody pinch me.
How are things with you? Ready to wear scrubs for the rest of your professional life? Have you bought a nice personalized surgical cap yet?
oh, and yes, I actually just bought my 1st of many personalized scrub hats...being in missouri country I had to introduce a little class to the ORs so I bought a white scub hat that says Boomer Sooner on the front. These mizzou fans are going to be sick...
Well hell, still time to fall in love then.
oh, and yes, I actually just bought my 1st of many personalized scrub hats...being in missouri country I had to introduce a little class to the ORs so I bought a white scub hat that says Boomer Sooner on the front. These mizzou fans are going to be sick...
Very nice.
Pretty much never thought I'd be here back in first year. It just seemed impossible to reach this point. Just ~2.5 weeks and one year until graduation.
Just six weeks of psych stand between me and 4th year.
Well done!
Where are you for psych?
You should be fine. Dr. Sheets is one of the nicest docs I've ever worked with.
. So I was thinking about asking for that Monday, too, so I could stay one extra day and actually have a little break. I haven't called to talk to him yet about my step II plans so I thought I'd see what your thoughts were. Not that I'm counting.
