It seems like everyone but Psych and EM have started so far. I’m not sure why but I am grateful for these extra days of orientation!
I have a friend doing EM who is currently doing "EM preschool" where they essentially shadow staff for two weeks with the goal not of taking care of patients but just learning how to use the EMR, how to find equipment, etc. I thought that was a great idea.
We started orientation early. Today was my first official day and i got stuck with call the first night lol
I interviewed at a couple programs like that. Yes it would be super helpful lol
Im a terrible sleeper and have insomnia most of the time and still managed about two hours of sleep. I had a good night lol
6 months on, 1 month off? what fresh hell...
No no I meant 6 days on 1 day off lol. My bad I forgot the word days.
You guys get a dedicated day off each week? Man, that sounds amazing
Well I don't have a schedule yet but they claim "1 day off a week averaged across the month per ACGME guidelines". I'm going to assume we'll get a day off a week. Most places either do 6 on 1 off or 12 on 2 off no? I think I'd prefer the later so you get one day to rest and one day to accomplish things but I guess I'll see.
Many programs get creative in order to “adhere” to the 4 days off thing.
It depends on my rotation. This month im on call once a week. I only have one weekend call. I have four months of call. Three months of 6 on, 1 ofd scheduling. Overall, it isn’t totally terrible when you really look at it.
I would love that. I feel most of my orientation so far isn’t going to really help once I get started. It’s vague and nonspecific. Would love to have even a couple days of pre-school.
Don't feel bad. All I know is I'm starting on inpatient psych on Wednesday and that's about it.
Usually a more senior resident will assign patients to the interns: will there be other residents on your ward?
There will be a supervising resident but they won’t be there until 8. Between the interns I think we’re going to divide the patients ourselves the night before so we all have something prepared.
Unreal. Remember when we were applying to medical school?! I can't believe this is all happening so fast.
It’s completely insane!
Nice!! I have an orientation zoom conference from 7:30a-4:30p today and then an organized residency hangout tonight at 7p.. Wish I could just have the day off to relax for one last time -__-
Yeah that blows, I'm sorry. I had in person orientation from nine til about noon and then we have all today to do whatever.
We had in person orientation M-F last week 8-5p and yesterday so today is almost like a "break" in that we don't have to be on site lol
It all comes back easily lol
At this point only one of the pgy-2’s have taken step 3 lol
I dont have medicine until late so I'm wondering if I should just do it after. Just don't how I'm gonna study for it though.
The prize you get for lots of discharges are lots of new admissions the next day.
One of my patients didn't want to talk to me and the other was too thought disordered to have a substantive conversation.
Introducing myself as Dr Ciestar is still the weirdest thing in the universe.
and that’s what my senior said. He was basically like welp sorry.
That’s what I expected my first day on the psych wards to be but noooo.
I’ve kinda been wondering how that process happens. What do they consider exposed? Aren’t all the patients masked and all the doctors wearing Masks/eye protection currently?
Yeahh it wasnt at the hospital lol
Oh no! Keep us updated. Hope it’s a false alarm.
It isnt. Friend tested positive.
Unfortunately I am having issues with this because I submitted a request that was denied due to still being in “in school” status. My fault for not checking that first but I thought it would be automatic upon graduation. Now that my loans have changed status to grace period, when I try to fill out the consolidation request, it tells me I have already applied. I know some of my co-residents have done it successfully though.
