I posted this in nontrads, but since you guys helped me with my attire: please excuse the excited typos
Ok! So I had my first job shadow with our former medical director of our hospitals sports medicine/athletic training program. He graduated finishe his residency in *gasp 1963 (DO family med with a sports med fellowship).
I called last week and was told to just show up after 8. I got there about 8:30 because I had to drop my kid off to school and right away I was going into EVERY room with patients. The patients were INCREDIBLE and so nice! I got to chat up two drug reps (who explained things in a "somewhat" medical way so I could click on) and free food
Since I was a former underling, I think he thought i was just there to kind of see what he does. During lunch I was talking to him about the fears I had with premed/MCAT. He looks at me and says, "wait what? premed? seriously??? I must have misunderstood, well lets get cracking young lady!!!" After lunch he let me get so much more involved it was AMAZING. If there were an orthopedic case he would let me chim in with ideas and treatment. I saw an AC sprain that was still causing the guy pain after a few months. I checked his posture and immediately noticed he was kyphotic. I asked if he weight lifted and he said yes. From there is was cake walk. He was overdeveloping his pecs and upper traps and under working the small intrinsic back mucles. I also got to assit in a midshaft clavicular fx, posterior impingment, and rotator cuff strain. I also got to see him do one OMM on a neck/shoulder patient (the one I suggested to doc may have some posterior impingment stuff.
We literally spend 2 HOURS talking about sudden cardiac death in athletes. And he went on by saying "all these athletes are being dx with cardia hypertrophy post mortem, thats not what killed most of them, most of the time it was mitigating factor or "Cardiac Cascade" he went on to explain hyperthermia leading to dehydration leding to hypervolemia hypernutremia, etc etc. OMG I was ENTRANCE and he didnt just spew off, he was explaining, teaching and INVOLVING me. Always asking me questions such as "what is just one simple thing we could have done to prevent this particular athlete from dying?" and "we need to also look at the circumstances SURROUNDING the death, not just the death itself".
This is where I want to be. I can no longer even imagine myself doing anything else. He wants me to come back at least once a week or every two weeks on his busiest days. He wants me to continue to assist in follow ups in the patients that we both saw today. He also said, without my even asking or prompting, that he WILL write a LOR, no questions ask
Granted, I've "know" doc for the past 10 years, but we've never really worked that closely, I just know that he was always talking highly to me to my supervisor. He's behind me 100% and even setting me up with other job shadowing opportunities!
Sorry I'm so frigging excited, I think more than my preschooler on Christmas morning!!
BTW: I work khakis, a dark grey short sleve long sweater, black "clogs"
Ok! So I had my first job shadow with our former medical director of our hospitals sports medicine/athletic training program. He graduated finishe his residency in *gasp 1963 (DO family med with a sports med fellowship).
I called last week and was told to just show up after 8. I got there about 8:30 because I had to drop my kid off to school and right away I was going into EVERY room with patients. The patients were INCREDIBLE and so nice! I got to chat up two drug reps (who explained things in a "somewhat" medical way so I could click on) and free food
Since I was a former underling, I think he thought i was just there to kind of see what he does. During lunch I was talking to him about the fears I had with premed/MCAT. He looks at me and says, "wait what? premed? seriously??? I must have misunderstood, well lets get cracking young lady!!!" After lunch he let me get so much more involved it was AMAZING. If there were an orthopedic case he would let me chim in with ideas and treatment. I saw an AC sprain that was still causing the guy pain after a few months. I checked his posture and immediately noticed he was kyphotic. I asked if he weight lifted and he said yes. From there is was cake walk. He was overdeveloping his pecs and upper traps and under working the small intrinsic back mucles. I also got to assit in a midshaft clavicular fx, posterior impingment, and rotator cuff strain. I also got to see him do one OMM on a neck/shoulder patient (the one I suggested to doc may have some posterior impingment stuff.
We literally spend 2 HOURS talking about sudden cardiac death in athletes. And he went on by saying "all these athletes are being dx with cardia hypertrophy post mortem, thats not what killed most of them, most of the time it was mitigating factor or "Cardiac Cascade" he went on to explain hyperthermia leading to dehydration leding to hypervolemia hypernutremia, etc etc. OMG I was ENTRANCE and he didnt just spew off, he was explaining, teaching and INVOLVING me. Always asking me questions such as "what is just one simple thing we could have done to prevent this particular athlete from dying?" and "we need to also look at the circumstances SURROUNDING the death, not just the death itself".
This is where I want to be. I can no longer even imagine myself doing anything else. He wants me to come back at least once a week or every two weeks on his busiest days. He wants me to continue to assist in follow ups in the patients that we both saw today. He also said, without my even asking or prompting, that he WILL write a LOR, no questions ask
Granted, I've "know" doc for the past 10 years, but we've never really worked that closely, I just know that he was always talking highly to me to my supervisor. He's behind me 100% and even setting me up with other job shadowing opportunities!
Sorry I'm so frigging excited, I think more than my preschooler on Christmas morning!!
BTW: I work khakis, a dark grey short sleve long sweater, black "clogs"
