can you explain what a typical day in the life of a 3rd year is like i'm five

[GoSpursGo]

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This thread seems to have gotten a bit off-track... let's please return to the OP's original question of what a typical schedule for a third year is like.

 

[D elegans]

Found a funny video on Surgery rotation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=q5Zc3b9Y1Os&feature=endscreen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSsw7yOm2mE&feature=relmfu

 

[VenusinFurs]

I did general surgery at the VA. That was nice. Only like a 13 hour day.

I'd also spend the boring part of the day when nothing was going on catching a quick nap. My residents didn't care.

 

[SpecterGT260]

Seriously?
That's how surgical rotation is?
THAT'S THE BIG BAD TERRIBLE OMG SURGERY?
Collecting vitals and waking up early?


Here's a typical day of a military leader:
4:30 -Wake up, clean your room, shower, shave
5:00- shine boots, iron and starch uniform, put food in your hole, study for promotion
6:00- morning formation, get yelled at
630- run 5 to 15 miles, puke up breakfast, about 200 sit-ups in the mud, get yelled at
800- change uniform, arrive at battalion, work formation, prepare troops, get yelled at
8 am- 2pm - change half the treads on a 65-ton battle tank, with basic hand tools, in the snow and sleet. Do NOT scuff your boots.
2:15 - thaw hands as a snack, resume working with remaining stumps
7 pm - evening formation, get yelled at, mop and wax floors, paperwork
8 pm -home for dinner, or back to work on the tank
9 pm- paperwork, study for promotion / gym time
10 pm - apply Flexall 451 to entire carapace, re-align left knee before tomorrow's run
+11 pm - optional

That's a NORMAL day.
Half the year, you have to do it all while sleeping outside in the rain, eating "egg product" for dinner. Shower when there's water to spare, if you can unfreeze it. Or, if you're in the desert... well...that's entirely different: free fireworks.
A few friends of mine got frostbite, just standing around doing their job. Their fingers literally FELL OFF before they were allowed to stop working. They now get a $200 check each month, for their minor loss.

I'm looking forward to surgical vaca...er...rotation!

Why on earth did you make separate entries for things like boot shining and getting yelled at? You will have plenty of the latter on surg rotation... well, maybe not you. But medical students will.

All I am seeing is a similar time commitment on the part of the surg schedule with less unbundling of chores/hygiene

I don't mean to undermine what military personnel do or go through, or undermine the service provided, but let's not troll it up here like you are prone to do..... kthxbai 👍

 

[SpecterGT260]

So does everyone else, including soldiers.

add to that list, Grad students, every mid-level provider, um.... hair stylists (I've heard that one a couple times), yeah.... everyone else 👍

It has not been my experience that medical students like to "sensationalize" the difficulty or time commitment. What I usually see happen is a medical student expresses that something was exhausting, tiring, hard, whatever and is met with an immediate "You think YOU got it bad!?!??? Well let me tell you about "hard" *****hole!" 🙄