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Got a 4th year AI trying to pimp me while I'm on call tonight. :laugh: . In no way do I care to answer those silly little questions when there 3 days before the test and I'd rather finish Case files in my down time.
 
Psych: Get cussed out by patients
Another asked why am I not afraid of death with a creepy stare locked on me
Patient literally cannot organize thoughts enough to answer any of my initial assessment questions and repeatedly talks about atoning for sins instead.


Still way more fun than Neuro was on even its best day.
 
Tatastrophy said:
Psych: Get cussed out by patients
Another asked why am I not afraid of death with a creepy stare locked on me
Patient literally cannot organize thoughts enough to answer any of my initial assessment questions and repeatedly talks about atoning for sins instead.


Still way more fun than Neuro was on even its best day.
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I'm literally counting the days until I'm finished with psych. Neuro up next; my favorite patients on family med and psych were neuro patients, so I'm hoping I'll enjoy it more.
 
VisionaryTics said:
I'm literally counting the days until I'm finished with psych. Neuro up next; my favorite patients on family med and psych were neuro patients, so I'm hoping I'll enjoy it more.
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Psych is better. Switched attendings halfway through the rotation. I actually get to interview patients, write notes/dictate (terrifying), come up with an A/P, etc. Inpatient psych + consults is much more interesting.

No more sitting silently from 7am-6pm while my attending micromanages day program medications. :bang:
 
I'm on psych right now. Or "psychation" rather, :laugh:. I'm gonna miss these hours. Get to the hospital at 7-7:30, out by 12. Despite the short hours, I feel like we get a lot done. We see every patient on the team each day.
 
Dr McSexy said:
I'm on psych right now. Or "psychation" rather, :laugh:. I'm gonna miss these hours. Get to the hospital at 7-7:30, out by 12. Despite the short hours, I feel like we get a lot done. We see every patient on the team each day.
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Yeah, I'm definitely not on psychation. These private practice guys work their butts off.
 
OR is closed for elective cases Tuesday and Wednesday so far. That's all I know.

What I'm thinking is that I go in tomorrow for clinic, get sent home between 12 and 5 for closures and we don't go back until Thursday if things are good. If it's bad, who knows...

I just need to figure out wtf I'm doing. Do I go to my parent's house or do I just leave. It's much more difficult being married with pets. If it was just me, I'd head to Dallas.
 
Shame on y'all for letting me lose internet for almost a week and still have back to back posts.

Yay for getting a week off of surgery, boo for all the hurricane mess down here. Go back to hospital tomorrow.
 
Off to my Family Med rotation in the middle of nowhere tomorrow morning. Yay.....
 
Holy crap..props to you guys for keeping this thread going.

I was in the original c/o 2013 thread and we fizzled out a loooong time ago.
 
Officially done-zo with psychiatry. Thank God. That shelf was much more pleasant than family med.
 
I'm a little more than 1/2 way through my internal medicine rotation! I can't see myself going into it, but I'm going to miss the inpatient stuff.
 
FloatOn said:
I'm a little more than 1/2 way through my internal medicine rotation! I can't see myself going into it, but I'm going to miss the inpatient stuff.
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What do you see yourself going into?

I have 3 weeks left of surgery (so technically halfway done even though I wasn't there for a week bc of hurricane). Needs to go by fast. At least I only have one more call night left.
 
4th page bump.

Question after shelf exams and Step 2 CK: Molecular mechanisms and other non-treatment and diagnosis relevant details - retain or let them fade away? Or: Is the stuff I had to cram for Step 1 going to require recramming?
 
TooMuchResearch said:
4th page bump.

Question after shelf exams and Step 2 CK: Molecular mechanisms and other non-treatment and diagnosis relevant details - retain or let them fade away? Or: Is the stuff I had to cram for Step 1 going to require recramming?
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I hope not, but we'll see. Still haven't taken a shelf yet. Surgery shelf in two weeks.

My one day off this weekend. Last call day tomorrow though. Woot.
 
Shelf is harder than you expect but easier than you expect too, if that makes any sense.
 
Family Medicine is boring me to pieces.
Ugh
Got my Neuro grade back after much trepidation. God I hate Neurology.
 
Tatastrophy said:
Family Medicine is boring me to pieces.
Ugh
Got my Neuro grade back after much trepidation. God I hate Neurology.
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I was never bored on family. I would blink and the day had just flown by. However, I think my psych rotation existed within a rip in the space-time continuum; each minute lasting days.

Neurology has been fun so far. Giving my cortex a much needed workout after six weeks of "let's pretend that anything you say over the next 30 minutes will change the fact that you're getting a prescription for Lexapro." Love the neurological exam, too.
 
One more week of Psych...

lets-do-this.jpg
 
Got the new iphone, it's suprisingly light! and super HD (transitioned from a flip phone)
 
metallica81788 said:
Only 3ish more days of surgery... counting them down with joy.
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Amen! Fellow third year here. Usually a lurker but I figured misery loves company. I got several more weeks and can't wait to feel like a normal person again when its finished.
 
Well that surgery shelf was pretty awful. Oh well.

Medicine and Neuro orientation tomorrow, then I start Medicine. Not sure exactly what I start off on, but I hope it's heme/onc.
 
Being able to go home at 1 from heme/onc consults is super confusing. It's nice, but I'm just used to surgery's whole making you wait around for nothing until 7pm.
 
metallica81788 said:
Not sure how that happened. I feel like I just took Step 1. My first rotation feels years ago.
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Same. 3rd year is going by crazy fast.

So how are you guys going about figuring out what you want to do? My problem is that I really like pretty much everything, but I don't think I want to be a generalist or primary care physician.
 
lstone13 said:
Same. 3rd year is going by crazy fast.

So how are you guys going about figuring out what you want to do? My problem is that I really like pretty much everything, but I don't think I want to be a generalist or primary care physician.
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I've narrowed my list down to 3 (kind of). #1 is Radiation Oncology, but I need bookoo research (I have none) and more connections (our school has no program), so that seems like a long shot. #2 is tied between Medicine Heme/Onc and Radiology. Very different but at this point it seems like I'm shooting for RadOnc hard and if I miss then IM or Rads. I feel like I'd enjoy med heme/onc but going through three years of IM seems annoying.

It's hard to have two things so different like RadOnc and Rads as options.

Have you rotated through all the big stuff yet?
 
metallica81788 said:
I've narrowed my list down to 3 (kind of). #1 is Radiation Oncology, but I need bookoo research (I have none) and more connections (our school has no program), so that seems like a long shot. #2 is tied between Medicine Heme/Onc and Radiology. Very different but at this point it seems like I'm shooting for RadOnc hard and if I miss then IM or Rads. I feel like I'd enjoy med heme/onc but going through three years of IM seems annoying.

It's hard to have two things so different like RadOnc and Rads as options.

Have you rotated through all the big stuff yet?
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heme is awesome, I'm thinking either oncology or surgery so far
 
lstone13 said:
Same. 3rd year is going by crazy fast.

So how are you guys going about figuring out what you want to do? My problem is that I really like pretty much everything, but I don't think I want to be a generalist or primary care physician.
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Agreed! It's crazy to think about choosing a specialty already-it seemed to me like it went from "oh don't worry about it, you have plenty of time" to "you'll need to start making a decision soon" super fast. Right now I'm thinking child&adolescent psych. Not everyone's cup of tea, but I love working with the kiddos and all the mental health stuff fascinates me.

Have you done OB/Gyn yet? That could be good for someone who likes both medicine and surgery and doesn't want to do primary care. As far as how to figure it out, someone told me to start by picking 2 out of: money, prestige, lifestyle, and loving what you do. It was kind of a helpful way for me to think about it and seems fairly accurate for most of the specialties. Now if one of your 2 is loving what you do but you're not sure what you want to do, I'm not sure how to go about figuring that out other than rotations😛
 
Currently on Neuro right now. My good hours continue, 7:30 - 12:00 and I'm done. Too bad we have one of the shortest neuro rotations in the nation with only 2 weeks.

I'm not sure I'll know what to do with myself when I have to go back to real hours, after 8 straight weeks of the above kind of hours .
 
metallica81788 said:
I've narrowed my list down to 3 (kind of). #1 is Radiation Oncology, but I need bookoo research (I have none) and more connections (our school has no program), so that seems like a long shot. #2 is tied between Medicine Heme/Onc and Radiology. Very different but at this point it seems like I'm shooting for RadOnc hard and if I miss then IM or Rads. I feel like I'd enjoy med heme/onc but going through three years of IM seems annoying.

It's hard to have two things so different like RadOnc and Rads as options.

Have you rotated through all the big stuff yet?
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Keep Iowa in mind: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/radiationoncology/residency/residents/index.html

We got a resident from LSU last year and another one this year (he is not up on the website yet). Program may be Louisiana friendly.
 
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