off service

[yankeedoodle1]

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what does it mean to be the 'off service intern'?
thanks

 

[meconiumdelee]

It may refer to the "non peds" resident on the team. For example, we have family practice and psych residents rotate with our hospital ward team and anesthesia residents rotate in the Peds ICU and Neonatal ICU.

 

[Bernardo_11]

It may refer to the "non peds" resident on the team. For example, we have family practice and psych residents rotate with our hospital ward team and anesthesia residents rotate in the Peds ICU and Neonatal ICU.

Psych residents, eh? Are these residents in a Triple Board program or are they actual categorcals in general psych? I wonder if that is a good learning experience for them, if it's the latter.

Intrigued,
Nardo

 

[Bernardo_11]

Also, I had thought off-service had meant a resident doing an outpatient rotation (ie. developmental/behavioral, adolescent, cardiology, ID, GI, etc.) where the call is minimal to nonexistant.

 

[Freibi]

Psych residents, eh? Are these residents in a Triple Board program or are they actual categorcals in general psych? I wonder if that is a good learning experience for them, if it's the latter.

Intrigued,
Nardo

They are General Psych interns who can choose the General Pediatric inpatient rotation as an elective. It can be a useful experience for them to see the patients with chronic abdominal pain or Tylenol overdose. I don`t know how useful it is for them to know how to deal with bronchiolitis, though. During one of my General Peds months, there was a Psych resident on the team who was just awesome and liked to take care of everything. He probably read more about Pediatrics than any of us during our rotation and not just things that relate to Psychiatry.

 

[Bernardo_11]

They are General Psych interns who can choose the General Pediatric inpatient rotation as an elective. It can be a useful experience for them to see the patients with chronic abdominal pain or Tylenol overdose. I don`t know how useful it is for them to know how to deal with bronchiolitis, though. During one of my General Peds months, there was a Psych resident on the team who was just awesome and liked to take care of everything. He probably read more about Pediatrics than any of us during our rotation and not just things that relate to Psychiatry.

That's really cool. Here on Hawaii all of the general psych residents, even those who are planning on pursuing a child psych fellowship, do rotations on the medicine service during the first year. I woud think for those residents, doing their medical rotations in pediatrics would be more beneficial. I might have to see if our department can talk with the psych guys.

Thanks,
Nardo