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One more day of intern year ... who's with me? Almost over. Oh yeah.
 
Complications said:
One more day of intern year ... who's with me? Almost over. Oh yeah.
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I have only one more in-house call as a PL-25 or is it 26? or 27: It's hard to count that many years...!!!😛

What is annoying is that I have to do more call as a PL-26 (or is it 27, or 28) than as a PL-25 (or is it 26?). 😡

Oh well, I hear the PL-40 year is easy!
 
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Yes, congrats to the "graduating" interns. I'll tell you, though, one of the scariest days of my life was my first call as an "upper" level resident.

Ed
 
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awesome!! congrates! but i do have a question. What does PL mean? I can't seem to find it anywhere...
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You know what?? Great question 😀 Some programs use PGY (post-graduate year, I get that one), but others use PL (for instance, my program), and I have no idea what it means either.

And is there a difference between the two besides just semantics?
 
Jendizzle said:
You know what?? Great question 😀 Some programs use PGY (post-graduate year, I get that one), but others use PL (for instance, my program), and I have no idea what it means either.

And is there a difference between the two besides just semantics?
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PL = Pediatric Level.

Purely semantics.

And Ed is right - it isn't until the PL-2 year that residents are likely to be left "alone" in a situation in which they need to primarily intubate a baby or otherwise make a critical decision/perform a procedure. The PL-2 and PL-3 years may overall be easier than PL-1, but there will be some months/nights that are harder/more stressful than any PL-1 night/rotation. Of course, by then you're ready for it!
 
Jendizzle said:
You know what?? Great question 😀 Some programs use PGY (post-graduate year, I get that one), but others use PL (for instance, my program), and I have no idea what it means either.

And is there a difference between the two besides just semantics?
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Isn't PL just Pediatric Level? As in PL-1 is a pedi intern. 🙂
 
jonb12997 said:
awesome!! congrates! but i do have a question. What does PL mean? I can't seem to find it anywhere...
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We finish up tomorrow as well. :soexcited:

Our hospitals use the PL abbreviation as well: PL-1 = Postgraduate level 1

Droopy
 
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oldbearprofessor said:
PL = Pediatric Level.

Purely semantics.

And Ed is right - it isn't until the PL-2 year that residents are likely to be left "alone" in a situation in which they need to primarily intubate a baby or otherwise make a critical decision/perform a procedure. The PL-2 and PL-3 years may overall be easier than PL-1, but there will be some months/nights that are harder/more stressful than any PL-1 night/rotation. Of course, by then you're ready for it!
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Well, thanks for deflating me 🙂. Tell me about it, I start my first two weeks as a night senior. Crazy!
 
Droopy said:
We finish up tomorrow as well. :soexcited:

Our hospitals use the PL abbreviation as well: PL-1 = Postgraduate level 1

Droopy
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That's right, PL is "postgraduate years", and it's a coincidence that "Pediatric" starts with a P, too. I think OBP made a joke referring to PL as "Pediatric Level". 😉
 
Google "PL" and "pediatric level" and you'll see many links with the definition so it isn't just me...

for one of many examples...

http://www.peds.arizona.edu/residency/curriculum.asp

I'm sure there's a fascinating history to the term, but I don't care about it or which definition came first. I do know that at the institutions where I've been in the last 30 years, it was defined as "pediatric level". Of course, it is identical to PGY, post-graduate year in meaning, but, pedi has used it's own term for at least 30 years, probably much longer.
 
Hmmm, interesting. So a Med-Peds resident has 4 Pediatric levels to go through, then? 😀
 
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