Guess it could. It could be either, they hear "resident physician" and might be scared I'm going to bring COVID into their complex, or they don't take the woman seriously. Which is funny because even as a resident I'll make 20k more than him a year, universities don't pay instructors very much. He couldn't afford the place himself, I can.
Yeah, our program has some basic information posted about what’s needed and it seems like it’s gonna require a legit doctors appointment. I haven’t gotten the forms though so we’ll see.
I imagine it was more of an oversight thing with all these folks working from home. I just made a deposit on a new apartment and it took a week to do what would normally take a day or two.So the place I'm interested I called first thing this morning and left a message saying I had emailed them, who I was, and asking for a call back. Haven't got anything and its now 1:30 in the afternoon. About an hour ago I just had my SO call, he left a message saying he was interested in a townhome and they called him back within 10 minutes. Do you think people might be afraid to have a doctor move into their complex for the exposure risk? Am I being ignored because of my profession?
I really hope it’s neither reason and that they’re just a little disorganized.
I know theres at least one in the office because she posted a video tour today on Facebook of a unit, a different unit than the kind I want. Just hoping someone responds to me. I don't want to reach out again though, its on them now lol. But congrats on getting a place!
Thanks! I similarly didn't want to reach out too much because I was afraid I'd piss someone off :O
Good luck!!My Spanish final is in an hour. I have to do a full H&P and patient presentation in Spanish. Need you all to direct good vibes my way...por favor.
Thank you!!! I passed!!!!!!! And with that I am done with medical school. It ended with a Zoom meeting. Weirdly anticlimactic.
Haha congrats!
The thing I'm going to miss most doing psych is the scrubs. RIP socially acceptable pajamas.
Completely agree. Hospitals are gross, we should all accept that and change into and change out of scrubs while there. It sucked being on IM having to help a patient with their sputum or emesis basin, help with a tap/bedside procedure, sweatily run up four flights of stairs to a code, grab something that fell under the patient bed, etc all while being in professional dress. Also PPE over professional dress is so claustrophobic and I overheat. Scrubs just make sense for hospital work.
I will not be giving up scrubs if I do hospital work. I don’t mind being “that” psychiatrist. If I’m on C&L I’ll be in scrubs and I’m not sorry.
Oh when I'm an attending I'll definitely be that psychiatrist. Probably can't get away with it as a resident though. Only tine they wear scrubs at my program that I saw was on night shift.
If you haven't already, reach out to your PC! I was trying to get BLS/ACLS courses done but when I asked they let me know that it will be a part of orientation, they just haven't sent out that info yet.
Doing okay now that schoolwork is finally done.
Lol i still havent received any paperwork...
It’s unnatural for them to make you take an exam during the end of fourth year.
Don't feel bad, my school made me do it for geriatrics. Exam itself was fine but holy hell.
You would think Expedia would have the decency to refund you!
Ive heard the SAEM exam is on par with NBME shelf exams. Nothing like a must pass exam looming over my head a month before graduation.
Are you male or female? The FIGS scrub top that I got this weekend was pretty big. I've heard that it's currently in style for women to wear looser tops, so Figs are big.
Haha wow we have a lot in common. I’m moving several hours away (not across country). I’ve been experiencing that same existential dread! Avoiding packing and reading. I think this would be stressful no matter what, adding a global crisis to the mix doesn’t help.
I'm not moving across the country but am experiencing the same dread. There's so much uncertainty, by the time I move is there going to be a true shelter in place order? Will I get fined for moving my stuff? I had plans to do it in a few trips so I wouldn't need to borrow a trailer from anybody, is this even going to be possible?
You are (or will be) considered an essential worker and can travel without worry. Wear a mask in hotels, wash/sanitize hands after pumping gas, get used to take out meals. Take a copy of your PGY1 contract and/or something with your new posting on it (NRMP Letter) and show it to anyone who asks. A lot of nurses are travel nurses now who've moved or went cross-country and none of them had any problem. And when asked at the hotels, they told the hotel employees that they were front-line workers and got nothing but kudos.
At this time we don’t have a stay at home order where I am or where I’m going, everything is just shut down. With luck it’ll stay that way.
My school is doing a virtual ceremony via Facebook Live. Last week they had us each recite Hippocratic Oath and have it recorded, and then the school is having all stitched together into a single recording. Otherwise there's one or two dean speeches and our student speaker. Maybe superlatives?
Ours is virtual but they havent provided much other information. We’re apparently getting regalia as well? Idk lol
Ours is paying for our regalia and shipping it to us.
Us as well! Theyre even asking information for potential “hooders”. No idea how this will work though lol
I actually emailed my school to ask what exactly is a virtual graduation. They totally ignored me. Maybe they don’t even know. This might sound weird but I would rather have the dignity of saying we didn’t have a graduation than to say oh we had a FaceTime/zoom/Facebook live meeting that counted as graduation.
My school has a townhall tomorrow so i’ll see what my school’s version of it is
My school ruled in person out because it is logistically insanely hard to do
