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So I'm sitting here narrowing down what I want to be when I grow up and am coming to a realization about how effing little I really know and how much I go through the motions (how many 3rd years can REALLY hear a heart murmur? Based on my classmates, not too doggone many unless it's a grade 5).....
Unless something really bad happens in my core emergency medicine rotation, I've decided on emergency medicine.
Ok, great --
I've been talking with a few residents at various programs and have heard the phrase,"There's not a lot of handholding here." or a variant on that theme "They'll leave you flapping in the breeze if they think you're not trying..." etc.
My questions are: 1) What is really expected of an intern in most EM programs? and 2) Should I interpret that statement as saying that I'd pretty much be an autonomous agent expected to get help when I needed it - i.e. run my plan and finding past my upper level BEFORE I go off and initiate therapy or as a 'get to work, I'm busy, don't but me' type of deal?
As I've said throughout 3rd year, it's a world of difference when YOU are responsible for the patient vs. doing the student thing.....
Unless something really bad happens in my core emergency medicine rotation, I've decided on emergency medicine.
Ok, great --
I've been talking with a few residents at various programs and have heard the phrase,"There's not a lot of handholding here." or a variant on that theme "They'll leave you flapping in the breeze if they think you're not trying..." etc.
My questions are: 1) What is really expected of an intern in most EM programs? and 2) Should I interpret that statement as saying that I'd pretty much be an autonomous agent expected to get help when I needed it - i.e. run my plan and finding past my upper level BEFORE I go off and initiate therapy or as a 'get to work, I'm busy, don't but me' type of deal?
As I've said throughout 3rd year, it's a world of difference when YOU are responsible for the patient vs. doing the student thing.....