bored of intern year

[badasshairday]

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Can't wait to finish up and move out of this town I'm stuck in for internship. My intern year has been nice, I'm just bored of the same old stuff these days. I know radiology will be a lot of work and significantly harder than internship, but I just want to start learning my trade now. Just bored.

Also studying for step 3 is really boring.....

 

[Rad2013]

I'm with you on this one. Truthfully, intern year has not been that terrible but I am so mentally done with it. It's so effing boring at this point. Same routine, day in, day out. I realize that radiology will become routine too at some point and there may come a time when I'll be bored reading negative chest X-rays but I cannot wait to be done with...

Endless paperwork...
Daily progress notes
Admissions/ H&Ps
Rapid responses/cart calls
MRSA gowns
Rounding
Getting paged
Always carrying around a folded piece of paper with a bunch of names with labs and boxes with check marks all over them
Calling consults
Babysitting psych patients until an inpatient bed is available
Diabetes
Hypertension
Hyperlipidemia
Hypothyroidism
Coronary Artery Disease
Acute Renal Insufficiency
COPD
CHF
"Placement issues"
Social issues
Train wreck patients
Non-compliant patients
Drug abusers

The list could go on forever....

 

[shark2000]

Can't wait to finish up and move out of this town I'm stuck in for internship. My intern year has been nice, I'm just bored of the same old stuff these days. I know radiology will be a lot of work and significantly harder than internship, but I just want to start learning my trade now. Just bored.

Also studying for step 3 is really boring.....

Welcome to clinical medicine. That is the true mature of medicine. The more you are involved in patient care, the more you will find it boring and monotonous.

Radiology can become routine, but still much better than clinical medicine. The best cases always pass through radiology department and in the middle of 40 negative chest X-rays and abdominal CTs, you will find a case that can make your day. The number of cool cases you see in a month in radiology is equal to what clinicians see in a year.

One good thing about radiology (diagnostic radiology) is once you sign a report you are done. The most boring case is boring only for 15 minutes. The torture will be done. In contrast, in clinical medicine 95% of patients present with the same 5 diagnosis all the time and they will stay with you for a decade or more. Clinical medicine is painful to practice (including IR).

Probably the only other similar field to DR is DERM. you can get rid of the most complex patient in 15 minutes.

The internship will be done sooner than you think. Take it easy and don't forget TO DO THE BARE MINIMUM.

 

[Cochan]

Oh boy... I'll start my intern year next year. Its a mix of emotions, excited to be done with med school but at the same time happy to be a 'real doc'. Im sure it'll get boring and painful. Soon enough i'll feel what you guys are feeling. Any suggestions? Dong the bare minimum seems reasonable.

 

[cowme]

I'm with you on this one. Truthfully, intern year has not been that terrible but I am so mentally done with it. It's so effing boring at this point. Same routine, day in, day out. I realize that radiology will become routine too at some point and there may come a time when I'll be bored reading negative chest X-rays but I cannot wait to be done with...

I cannot imagine getting bored of a negative chest x ray. Between all the post op disasters with 10 lines, and the end stage fibrotics lungs, I happily welcome a good ole normal

 

[Rad2013]

I will admit that internship is way better than 3rd year of medical school. You have a purpose and you get paid.

 

[ar2388]

I will admit that internship is way better than 3rd year of medical school. You have a purpose and you get paid.

that is prolly the one nice thing about intern year... cannot wait to get paid!!

 

[XerxesOfPersia]

Doing the bare minimum is just fine. At times I feel like an glorified med student that can put in orders.

 

[DrBowtie]

Still have 3 ward months left. Blah.

 

[Elixir86]

I'm with you on this one. Truthfully, intern year has not been that terrible but I am so mentally done with it. It's so effing boring at this point. Same routine, day in, day out. I realize that radiology will become routine too at some point and there may come a time when I'll be bored reading negative chest X-rays but I cannot wait to be done with...

Endless paperwork...
Daily progress notes
Admissions/ H&Ps
Rapid responses/cart calls
MRSA gowns
Rounding
Getting paged
Always carrying around a folded piece of paper with a bunch of names with labs and boxes with check marks all over them
Calling consults
Babysitting psych patients until an inpatient bed is available
Diabetes
Hypertension
Hyperlipidemia
Hypothyroidism
Coronary Artery Disease
Acute Renal Insufficiency
COPD
CHF
"Placement issues"
Social issues
Train wreck patients
Non-compliant patients
Drug abusers

The list could go on forever....

Whoa....it's like you're in my mind.

 

[MossPoh]

I'm bored of intern year and I haven't even started.

 

[Rad2013]

I also can't wait to not give a **** if my patients have not taken a ****.

 

[viper930]

I also can't wait to not give a **** if my patients have not taken a ****.

lolol

 

[Bradstein]

it will at most be a mention in the report regarding "stool burden"

 

[konRAD 1]

haha! Love it!

I was extremely bored with Step 3 too. I went down pretty significantly on my Step 3.

 

[deleted263296]

Do you guys think that internship should be required for radiology residents? I feel like 6 months of training may be reasonable but 13 months of this stuff is a horrible grind. We are basically being forced to do scut work and learn a set of skills that don't apply to a radiologist's career. Every day I have been on an inpatient service has been exhausting and driving me further away from the medical profession to the point where I even doubt whether I want to continue on into residency at this point. I am going to go into residency already burned out, which is a sucky feeling.

 

[meister]

I'm done with night float and ICU, just have one more month of wards and ED, the rest is electives. Can't effing wait until June 15.

 

[shark2000]

Do you guys think that internship should be required for radiology residents? I feel like 6 months of training may be reasonable but 13 months of this stuff is a horrible grind. We are basically being forced to do scut work and learn a set of skills that don't apply to a radiologist's career. Every day I have been on an inpatient service has been exhausting and driving me further away from the medical profession to the point where I even doubt whether I want to continue on into residency at this point. I am going to go into residency already burned out, which is a sucky feeling.

Some radiologists think you don't need. I personally think you need.

The most important thing that you learn during internship, even if you don't learn anything else is the fact that "Clinical medicine sucks". You will never miss patient contact in the rest of your career.

 

[Rad2013]

I also can't wait to work in an environment that isn't constantly beeping.

 

[shark2000]

I also can't wait to work in an environment that isn't constantly beeping.

My current environment is constantly ringing (the telephone).

 

[badasshairday]

My current environment is constantly ringing (the telephone).

lol, yeah I was just about to say. Constant interruptions in radiology, seems like it is tough to get an advanced study done with techs asking questions, other doctors coming by, phone calls from docs. 😱

 

[colbgw02]

My current environment is constantly ringing (the telephone).

lol, yeah I was just about to say. Constant interruptions in radiology, seems like it is tough to get an advanced study done with techs asking questions, other doctors coming by, phone calls from docs. 😱

So true. If you don't like being interrupted, then don't go into radiology.

 

[viper930]

I've worked with prelim residents who seemed really burned out and others who seemed pretty happy. Invariably, the latter group consisted of individuals who got in, knocked out the bare minimum work asap, and peaced the f out. I don't plan to spend a single minute more than I have to in the hospital wherever I end up next year.

 

[2012mdc]

I will admit that internship is way better than 3rd year of medical school. You have a purpose and you get paid.

And you don't have to study

 

[Rad2013]

Except for Step 3.

 

[Bradstein]

2 months, 2 weeks, number 2 pencil

 

[XerxesOfPersia]

2 months, 2 weeks, number 2 pencil

Absolutely.

 

[653106]

Intern year is what you make of it. My goal was make sure non of my patients end in the MICU, look at every image I ordered before and after official read, familiarize my self with PACS, not spending more than 10 minutes in a follow up patient's room, if admitting 30 minutes, never address chronic issues, and choose the schedule with most electives and least wards. Before I know it I only have 3 more month

 

[Dr. USMLE]

Intern year is what you make of it. My goal was make sure non of my patients end in the MICU, look at every image I ordered before and after official read, familiarize my self with PACS, not spending more than 10 minutes in a follow up patient's room, if admitting 30 minutes, never address chronic issues, and choose the schedule with most electives and least wards. Before I know it I only have 3 more month

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[IJL]

Take it easy and don't forget TO DO THE BARE MINIMUM.

PLEASE, go on..

haha! Love it!

I was extremely bored with Step 3 too. I went down pretty significantly on my Step 3.

And this is okay, right?

2 months, 2 weeks, number 2 pencil

I might do a little studying, but not much. My Step 1 and 2 were both 255+, so step 3 shouldn't be that bad, right?? I really want to knock it out as I'm doing an extremely busy prelim medicine year

Intern year is what you make of it. My goal was make sure non of my patients end in the MICU, look at every image I ordered before and after official read, familiarize my self with PACS, not spending more than 10 minutes in a follow up patient's room, if admitting 30 minutes, never address chronic issues, and choose the schedule with most electives and least wards. Before I know it I only have 3 more month

lol, you must have been at an extremely low acuity place