Hi all
I have fortunately been accepted for an open position and will be transferring across the country. I am a USMD and I will be an incoming PGY2 in a midtier IM program in the northeast.
It will be a completely new hospital system with 3 different EMRs, a different call and rounding structure, and I will know no one in the program. The scary thought is, I will now be responsible for the entire team as a new upper level in a setting I am unfamiliar with. I feel like I will be a Day 1 intern all over again, especially not knowing how the hospital works, working with new nursing/social work, not knowing where anything is located in the hospital. I was also told practicing medicine in the northeast may be different than where I am used to (I'm from the South).
So I expect to have a steep learning curve and may fail hard in the beginning. It doesn't help that I will be under the spotlight since I am the new person and they need to evaluate my skills. What can I do in order to make the transition more smooth?
Thanks in advance
I have fortunately been accepted for an open position and will be transferring across the country. I am a USMD and I will be an incoming PGY2 in a midtier IM program in the northeast.
It will be a completely new hospital system with 3 different EMRs, a different call and rounding structure, and I will know no one in the program. The scary thought is, I will now be responsible for the entire team as a new upper level in a setting I am unfamiliar with. I feel like I will be a Day 1 intern all over again, especially not knowing how the hospital works, working with new nursing/social work, not knowing where anything is located in the hospital. I was also told practicing medicine in the northeast may be different than where I am used to (I'm from the South).
So I expect to have a steep learning curve and may fail hard in the beginning. It doesn't help that I will be under the spotlight since I am the new person and they need to evaluate my skills. What can I do in order to make the transition more smooth?
Thanks in advance
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