Advice for Electives during Transitional Year

[midwestmed16]

I will have 4 months of elective time during my TY before R1, and was hoping for some insight as to how others planned their intern year. Multiple months in the same field are permitted. Choices are as follows:

Cards, Endo, Gastro, Heme-Onc, ID,
Nephro, Neuro, PM&R, Psych, Rads
ENT, Neurosurg, Ortho, Plastics, SICU, Uro

What would you choose and why?

Thanks in advance!

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[Voodoo Chile]

Radsx4. Self-explanatory.

 

[DeucesHigh3]

I will have 4 months of elective time during my TY before R1, and was hoping for some insight as to how others planned their intern year. Multiple months in the same field are permitted. Choices are as follows:

Cards, Endo, Gastro, Heme-Onc, ID,
Nephro, Neuro, PM&R, Psych, Rads
ENT, Neurosurg, Ortho, Plastics, SICU, Uro

What would you choose and why?

Thanks in advance!

Can only do 2 months of Rads electives during intern year. For the other two, maybe ortho and GI? SICU would probably be a good learning experience too. Really though, take the 4 easiest electives you can find at your hospital.

 

[Voodoo Chile]

Can only do 2 months of Rads electives during intern year. For the other two, maybe ortho and GI? SICU would probably be a good learning experience too. Really though, take the 4 easiest electives you can find at your hospital.

Man that stinks. I agree with DeucesHigh3. Find the easiest electives and enjoy your time off!

 

[deleted564680]

Just fyi, you can only do a rads elective if your institution has an ACGME rads program. Not sure if your TY is at your place you matched for rads or not.

 

[IJL]

Most helpful?

Ortho, neurosurgery, SICU, maybe GI/ENT/plastics?

Easiest?

ID, endocrine, rads, PM&R

 

[loljkttyl]

pathology, rad onc

 

[shark2000]

The easiest the best.

 

[Lostin_space]

Most helpful?

Ortho, neurosurgery, SICU, maybe GI/ENT/plastics?

Easiest?

ID, endocrine, rads, PM&R

ID? Endocrine? Really? Both of these are some of the most tedious specialties out there. ID in particular has a ton of consults, lots of knowledge base, notes are extensively detailed. Not an easy rotation by any means.

 

[g8orlife]

I will have 4 months of elective time during my TY before R1, and was hoping for some insight as to how others planned their intern year. Multiple months in the same field are permitted. Choices are as follows:

Cards, Endo, Gastro, Heme-Onc, ID,
Nephro, Neuro, PM&R, Psych, Rads
ENT, Neurosurg, Ortho, Plastics, SICU, Uro

What would you choose and why?

Thanks in advance!

Email the current residents and ask them. It really comes down to attending preferences and what they expect out of the residents. Only the residents would know that.

 

[Radz123]

What are you interested in specializing in? If IR? DO as much surgery as humanly possible. Neuro? Neurosurgery and neurology.

 

[PL198]

ID? Endocrine? Really? Both of these are some of the most tedious specialties out there. ID in particular has a ton of consults, lots of knowledge base, notes are extensively detailed. Not an easy rotation by any means.

ID notes are detailed?

current medications
patient afebrile, wound healing appropriately
CBC
Copy and paste culture and sensitives
A/P
Resolving xyz infection, continue current medications

All the ID I've seen is seeing a ton of patients in short time and writing extremely concise notes

Don't know about endo

 

[g8orlife]

ID notes are detailed?

current medications
patient afebrile, wound healing appropriately
CBC
Copy and paste culture and sensitives
A/P
Resolving xyz infection, continue current medications

All the ID I've seen is seeing a ton of patients in short time and writing extremely concise notes

Don't know about endo

"Ton of patients" + consult service = a lot of work I'd rather avoid during my TY year.

Yes, progress notes are quick, but Gathering detailed info to dictate the consultation note takes time. When you have a busy service & lots of patients, then it gets tedious. If that's your interest then great. But I'd rather avoid all consult services ..... unless the Attending doesn't expect me to see/dictate the consults, which would actually make the service very light.

Which, again, brings me back to my prior post -- Email the current residents to see what the attendings expect out of them. Only the current residents at your hospital can tell you that.
The ID rotation may be cush at one hospital, but malignant at another.