Anyone have advice for re-acclimating to clinical residency when coming out of the lab after two years? What have you read, practiced, or done that has helped? Advice for rounds, the OR? Thanks in advance!
argh. i'm dealing with that dilemma myself. I am in my 2nd lab year, go back as a 4 to very difficult services. some of my friends in upper years have really struggled on their first services, esp as trauma chief.
my plan:
1. I scrub in with a senior surgeon about once a month for big cases when the other residents are in conference
2. I am studying very hard for ABSITE (via SESAP and the surgical portal MCQs)
3. I plan to force myself to do 2 hours a week in our skills lab startign in april, esp with laparoscopic intracorporeal knot tying ; I have a castro at home so will practice vascular anastomoses, etc.
One of the hardest thing, via other residents, has been relearning the system, rememorizing anesthesia's #, the pager for the NP on surg onc, how to print up d/c instructions, etc.
occasionally scrubbing also helps me remember the postop order sets, where they are, the new "rules" for postop DVT ppx, antibiotics, etc.
