My 3rd Year Schedule

[blondemed]

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So my school is a bit different in terms of scheduling:
1) There are four blocks: Ob/Gyn & Peds, Neuro & Psych, Internal Med, and Surgery
2) In combined blocks, we are randomly assigned to which clerkship will occur first in the block
3) There is no Family Med block as most of our outpatient experiences occur during an ambulatory clerkship in MS I and II years

So, that said, I am probably most interested in int med with psych/neuro also as possibilities. Surgery is a big "No" and peds, ob/gyn are a toss up since I haven't had much experience in those areas as of yet. My plan is:

Ob/Gyn-Peds --> Neuro/Psych --> Int Med --> Surgery

I think neuro/psych will be a nice break between two intense clerkships and that having peds early on will be helpful for internal medicine. I also have med before surgery but am concerned that having the two back to back at the end of the year could lead to burn out. What do you guys think?

 

[Law2Doc]

So my school is a bit different in terms of scheduling:
1) There are four blocks: Ob/Gyn & Peds, Neuro & Psych, Internal Med, and Surgery
2) In combined blocks, we are randomly assigned to which clerkship will occur first in the block
3) There is no Family Med block as most of our outpatient experiences occur during an ambulatory clerkship in MS I and II years

So, that said, I am probably most interested in int med with psych/neuro also as possibilities. Surgery is a big "No" and peds, ob/gyn are a toss up since I haven't had much experience in those areas as of yet. My plan is:

Ob/Gyn-Peds --> Neuro/Psych --> Int Med --> Surgery

I think neuro/psych will be a nice break between two intense clerkships and that having peds early on will be helpful for internal medicine. I also have med before surgery but am concerned that having the two back to back at the end of the year could lead to burn out. What do you guys think?

I like your schedule. Neuro and Peds will give you good practice working up and presenting patients and writing SOAP notes, so you won't be so green when you get to IM, so I like the idea of having those before IM. And the gyn surgery is going to be a mini-primer on working in the OR, so it's not bad having that before surgery. If you have a spring break after IM, then I would leave your schedule as is -- you will have enough rest going into surgery to get you through.

 

[lord_jeebus]

I think this will work well.

 

[MrBurns10]

I guess I'll be the first to disagree. It's March, I'm 7 months into rotations, and I'm really burned (burnt?) out. Granted I've already had both surg and medicine, but if I had to do those now back-to-back, I think I'd hurt someone...probably myself. I had surgery first, which was tough but I loved getting the hardest one over with (and I had no interest in pursuing it).

 

[Law2Doc]

but I loved getting the hardest one over with (and I had no interest in pursuing it).

But if you have to take one after you are burnt, why not one you have no interest in pursuing?

 

[MrBurns10]

But if you have to take one after you are burnt, why not one you have no interest in pursuing?

Sure, which is why if I were the OP and interested in going into IM, I'd do:
Surg --> Neuro/Psych --> IM --> OB/Peds

In the end it doesn't matter. But I would never recommend taking Surg and Med back to back in the second semester if you can avoid it. Just my opinion.

 

[blondemed]

I should have ~1 month of elective time between medicine and surgery according to my preference dates ... hopefully it will be enough time to recuperate 🙂