MCW class of '08

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Ashers said:
Wow. I love the dance.

If you look hard, you can see me:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnpB4ducmUc[/YOUTUBE]

Ok, maybe you can't see me, but I'm in the pin ball game poop shoot, outer side 2nd from the back.
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Wow, some of your trumpet players have great chops.
 
Gimlet said:
Wow, some of your trumpet players have great chops.
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None of which was me (the soloists I mean, I can play loud and in tune). Some were really good though, and 1 guy just kept coming back to the band and was in it for 9 years, he just kept retaking marching band.
 
Let's see how many problems you guys can find with the following hypothetical scenario. Hypothetical sub-intern, we'll call him "yeasterbunny," is being pressured by his senior resident to attend a noon lecture. Yeasterbunny is post-call and is struggling to finish all the work needed on the 8 patients he is following, made worse by the fact that he had to set his work aside to present a topic to his team immediately prior to the hypothetical noon lecture. In the end, yeasterbunny decides not to attend the noon lecture, but instead continues working so he can go home 32 hours after arriving to the hospital, at 2 pm.

If yeasterbunny had desired this kind of punishment, he would have done his medicine sub-I at Froedtert.
 
Wait, there's a hypothetical sub-intern at Froedtert next month, let's call her Xandie, and she doesn't want that kind of punishment either! Hmm...
 
Xandie said:
Wait, there's a hypothetical sub-intern at Froedtert next month, let's call her Xandie, and she doesn't want that kind of punishment either! Hmm...
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The difference is at Froedtert you only admit when you are on call. On FM at St. Joes it is generally not as freakishly busy, but you admit patients every single day, so it ends up balancing out. But at Froedtert there are caps and safeguards in place to prevent students from getting overloaded. On my rotation there are no such caps (except I am only supposed to follow 6 patients at once), so when it's crazy busy, we get extra killed.

Did I mention I am the only one from the team in-house overnight when I'm on call?
 
Well, here's hoping.

I'm still waiting for my actual assignment, as far as what team, call schedule, etc. I don't even really "know" that I'm at Froedtert, except that I obviously am.
 
Xandie said:
Well, here's hoping.

I'm still waiting for my actual assignment, as far as what team, call schedule, etc. I don't even really "know" that I'm at Froedtert, except that I obviously am.
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I would have been if I hadn't gotten the FM one. Actually I think someone told me they reorganized the IM rotations at Froedtert to make them less brutal.
 
I've actually heard the sub-Is at Froedtert aren't bad at all, even when it's busy, because they take good care of you. I've heard the VA is much more brutal; I enjoyed the VA as a 3rd year, so I'm reasonably happy with it. I would like my call schedule at some point, but as long as I'm either not on the first night or I know about it in advance, I'm fine. Plus, we're off at 10 am on Match Day, so I know I'm good then.
 
Xandie said:
I've actually heard the sub-Is at Froedtert aren't bad at all, even when it's busy, because they take good care of you. I've heard the VA is much more brutal; I enjoyed the VA as a 3rd year, so I'm reasonably happy with it. I would like my call schedule at some point, but as long as I'm either not on the first night or I know about it in advance, I'm fine. Plus, we're off at 10 am on Match Day, so I know I'm good then.
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I'm looking forward to q2 call x 3 on the 20th, 22nd, and 24th. Yeah.
 
Just yuck. Yuck. That sucks mightily... you going to be under 80 average still? I'm hoping the rest of your call is less frequent...
 
Xandie said:
Just yuck. Yuck. That sucks mightily... you going to be under 80 average still? I'm hoping the rest of your call is less frequent...
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I don't know how that works exactly. It will undoubtedly end up being 90 hours on just those 6 days plus 11 hours on the 7th day brings me up over 100 in a consecutive 7 day period (not sun-sat though). But it probably averages out because I'm only on call 6 times total in the month. So does that count as being over? It dang well should.
 
Yay, my ROL is submitted! I finally feel I can go to full slacker mode now, because everything I do from here on out is completely pointless! Assuming I don't fail anything.

Anyone going to varietyfest tonight?
 
yeasterbunny said:
Yay, my ROL is submitted! I finally feel I can go to full slacker mode now, because everything I do from here on out is completely pointless! Assuming I don't fail anything.

Anyone going to varietyfest tonight?
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What's an ROL?

Not going to Variety Fest. I haven't been since M1 year when I had to go because I was in it for Jazz Band. I might've gone if I didn't have to work tomorrow.
 
Congrats on essentially being done for the year!

I'm going to variety fest. Good times.


Ashleigh - ROL is rank order for the match.
 
akpete said:
Congrats on essentially being done for the year!

I'm going to variety fest. Good times.


Ashleigh - ROL is rank order for the match.
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Ahhhh... Rank Order List, I presume.

We graduate in 1 year & 3 months from yesterday. And, 12 days left of surgery. Not that I'm counting anything.

And no more Froedtert for the rest of M3 year. 4.5mo at the Dert is enough. I've got medicine at the VA team 3 then Joe's team B.
 
Yay, I graduate in two years and three months. Medulloblastomas suck. I'm pretty sure that oncology is not for me.
 
And we graduate three months from today!!
 
Ashers said:
Ahhhh... Rank Order List, I presume.

We graduate in 1 year & 3 months from yesterday. And, 12 days left of surgery. Not that I'm counting anything.

And no more Froedtert for the rest of M3 year. 4.5mo at the Dert is enough. I've got medicine at the VA team 3 then Joe's team B.
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I've got Geriatrics, then Froedtert Team 1. Got peds outpatient second, which will be nice for shelf-studying.
 
I nominate Geriatrics as being awesome. The juniors that were with me that month may not agree, but they're short-sighted, me thinks.

I'm at Froedtert next month. WHEEEE! No complaining though, because I'm on vacation in April. More wheeee!
 
Gimlet said:
I've got Geriatrics, then Froedtert Team 1. Got peds outpatient second, which will be nice for shelf-studying.
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I've got peds outpt second. So, I think if we're going to have a little party with the 08ers like Xandie suggested in April or May, it should be April. 😀
 
Xandie said:
I nominate Geriatrics as being awesome. The juniors that were with me that month may not agree, but they're short-sighted, me thinks.
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What do you mean by that, Xandie? I requested Geriatrics, and am happy I got it, although I've heard mixed things about the work hours.
 
Gimlet said:
What do you mean by that, Xandie? I requested Geriatrics, and am happy I got it, although I've heard mixed things about the work hours.
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There are no weekends and no call. Anyone that complains about hours like that on an inpatient month are exercising their whining muscles and not their brain.

I got there between 8 and 830 most days, and was almost never there after 5. You only write notes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, unless something happens or you admit or discharge the patient.
 
I love tuna. Mine eat the tuna water that I drain after I eat the tuna meat (mixed with mac and cheese... yummy). Good times!
 
Xandie said:
There are no weekends and no call. Anyone that complains about hours like that on an inpatient month are exercising their whining muscles and not their brain.

I got there between 8 and 830 most days, and was almost never there after 5. You only write notes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, unless something happens or you admit or discharge the patient.
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Sounds like the bee's knees.
 
Agent Splat said:
Actually, I prefer dog breath. Cat breath is nas-tee.
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But the nice thing is that USUALLY it only smells like cat food when they've just eaten. This is nice when you're part of a couple; it circumvents the "Lady, the man didn't feed me--Dude, the lady didn't feed me!" loop cats like to create. The lie doesn't work when it's wafted on a miasma of fish breath.
 
Hey Xandie, how long til we graduate?
 
samenewme said:
But the nice thing is that USUALLY it only smells like cat food when they've just eaten. This is nice when you're part of a couple; it circumvents the "Lady, the man didn't feed me--Dude, the lady didn't feed me!" loop cats like to create. The lie doesn't work when it's wafted on a miasma of fish breath.
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10 points for "miasma." I would have saved my s to build off another word though. Hopefully one of those m's is on a triple letter score.
 
So I think I killed someone today. Actually he had PEA and I went to auscultate his chest and the very act of touching him put him over the top and he went immediately into asystole. Coincidence? Maybe. I like to think it's the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle at work. The very act of my observation had an impact on the outcome. Anyway, no code. He was pretty sick. So that was the highlight of my day.
 
I got my call schedule today: A Monday, two Saturdays, a Friday, a Sunday, and the day before Match Day. Whoopee! It's nice to have my schedule though. I can schedule hair appointments now.
 
Xandie said:
I got my call schedule today: A Monday, two Saturdays, a Friday, a Sunday, and the day before Match Day. Whoopee! It's nice to have my schedule though. I can schedule hair appointments now.
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You mean we get to find out our schedule in ADVANCE during 4th year? What a concept!


That has got to be one of the hardest things to explain to my mom - why on the 30th of the month I can't tell her my schedule for the 5th.
 
akpete said:
You mean we get to find out our schedule in ADVANCE during 4th year? What a concept!


That has got to be one of the hardest things to explain to my mom - why on the 30th of the month I can't tell her my schedule for the 5th.
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My parents KNOW about the whole medical establisment/med school crap, yet they still bug me until I know my schedule. It drives me nuts.
 
So what's the official word on the Blood Bank elective, Xandie and Don? You two have been suspiciously quiet around here lately, which makes me worried that you are working too hard. 🙂

Would that elective be at all interesting or useful for somebody going into anesthesiology?
 
Gimlet said:
So what's the official word on the Blood Bank elective, Xandie and Don? You two have been suspiciously quiet around here lately, which makes me worried that you are working too hard. 🙂

Would that elective be at all interesting or useful for somebody going into anesthesiology?
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I personally can't think of anyone it could possible be interesting or useful for.

Or at least there are certainly more useful things available for anesthesiology. Like the ICU. Pain management. Pulm. Peds anesthesia, OB anesthesia, I think there's a trauma anesthesia rotation that would be cool. Anesthesia has its own research month too. I'm doing that next month.
 
yeasterbunny said:
I personally can't think of anyone it could possible be interesting or useful for.

Or at least there are certainly more useful things available for anesthesiology. Like the ICU. Pain management. Pulm. Peds anesthesia, OB anesthesia, I think there's a trauma anesthesia rotation that would be cool. Anesthesia has its own research month too. I'm doing that next month.
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Cool! What research program are you doing? I was thinking of doing the "Cardiovascular and Respiratory Regulation during Anesthesia" one with Dr. Ebert. Did you have to set up a project to work on with the director beforehand?

I'm definitely doing an ICU month next year, as well as hopefully an Anesthesia Sub-I and possibly the Trauma Anesthesia integrated selective.
 
Gimlet said:
Cool! What research program are you doing? I was thinking of doing the "Cardiovascular and Respiratory Regulation during Anesthesia" one with Dr. Ebert. Did you have to set up a project to work on with the director beforehand?

I'm definitely doing an ICU month next year, as well as hopefully an Anesthesia Sub-I and possibly the Trauma Anesthesia integrated selective.
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I think it was called Anesthetics and Cardiac Signal Transduction or something like that. Dr. Bosnak is in charge of the course. I did my first summer research with Dr. Stowe, so I'm just going back to his lab to do a little more of what I did then although it obviously has little to do with my ultimate career interests. Pretty interesting projects though, anesthetics and especially preconditioning mechanisms in isolated cardiac mitochondria. Actually I just miss chopping off guinea pig heads.
 
anyone here had a med sub-i at dert? what is a typical day like? just wondering because i have mine in two months and i have heard horror stories. one guy told me that on a non-call day he would show up at 6 and leave at 10 pm. this doesn't sound right to me. can some of the wise shed some light on this, please? thank you
 
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