Electives During M4 To Make Intern Yr Easier
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Critical Care.
The MICU rotation is probably the most dreaded for any medicine intern. Since you will mostly likely have this rotation, and it could even be in July, the more comfortable you are with critical care issues the better off you'll be.
Otherwise, nothing can prepare you for intern year. Enjoy yourself this year!
The MICU rotation is probably the most dreaded for any medicine intern. Since you will mostly likely have this rotation, and it could even be in July, the more comfortable you are with critical care issues the better off you'll be.
Otherwise, nothing can prepare you for intern year. Enjoy yourself this year!
well said.
i'd also like to add, that if emergency medicine is not a requirement at your instititution, strongly consider doing that rotation. you'll get an opporunity to see patients early in the process, learn how to think quickly, get some suturing in... amongst other things.
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I'll echo MICU and EM, but other than that I would say try to enjoy your 4th year b/c there is nothing that will truly prepare you for internship, other than actually being a physician in the thick of it.
Anything that allows you to go in at 9 am and leave at noon.
That's my school's IM program director said. He feels that interns who either had MICU late in the m4 year (or early as an intern) feel a lot more confident about their CC skills and it helps carry over into the other inpatient months.
word. anything that will allow you to stockpile sleep, visit with your loved ones, and party like a rockstar at least two nights a week.
i thought my ICU month mid-m4 year really helped my confidence so as not to freak out when dealing with critical care patients as an intern. it at least gave me a grasp on the vocabulary and some familiarity with drips. i went into a surgical field so i did a SICU sub-i.
the end of your m4 year, however, do the fun and easy things.
the end of your m4 year, however, do the fun and easy things.
Dude, dont worry about taking challenging rotations your fourth year to "prepare" for internship. Take the most fluff, easy, rotations you can and enjoy your time off during fourth year because internship will be enough work and you'll wish you had taken time to have fun, get drunk, get laid, hang with friends. Internship isn't about knowing anything, its about getting **** done. They could get a monkey to do our job as an intern. We're just warm bodies to get work done.
