on call july 1st! as an intern!!

[adpi_med]

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Great-
so i found out that i'm the intern on call for my program on Saturday July 1st. I haven't taken care of a kid in the inpatient setting since, oh, january 2005.

I'm scared-new hospital, don't know my senior, don't know the computer system, don't know the nurses!!

any advice?

thanks!

 

[Os4prez]

Count your blessing man... Ive got it one worse than you. Its all new for me PLUS i Start in the NICU. Oh well, asi es la vida.

 

[adpi_med]

let's trade-i hope to be a neonatologist. i feel much safer with the babies. i would rather take a 23 weeker than a 6 year old. those big kids scare me!

any advice for the floors?

 

[Palmetto]

25% chance of starting on NICU night float. Do I win something? Of course, I'll have a senior resident to guide me a la Virgil*.

* not that I want to imply that the NICU is any circle of hell, especially with OBP monitoring this thread... 😛

 

[beaner]

I win... on call the first night, in the NICU, never done NICU before, haven't SEEN a kid in about 6 months, and it is a new hospital with a foreign computer system... Can't wait! 🙂 Nothing like being thrown in the fire...

 

[oldbearprofessor]

25% chance of starting on NICU night float. Do I win something? Of course, I'll have a senior resident to guide me a la Virgil*.

* not that I want to imply that the NICU is any circle of hell, especially with OBP monitoring this thread... 😛

Listen guys, I know YOU'RE worried about being on call on July 1st, but I'm on call that night too and doing rounds all weekend . Not only is it interns just starting that I'm dealing with but it's new seniors rounding in the NICU where I'll be doing rounds. I don't exactly expect a quick day 😡

You guys will all do fine anyway. Just try not to say "Who me?" when they call you "doctor." Interestingly, I've always considered internship to be one of the 3 great transitions in medicine. Two are obvious - the first month of clinics as a 3rd yr med student and the start of internship. The other is much less obvious - it's the first month as an attending!

No matter how good your residency and fellowship, it's always different to be the final arbitrer of what happens to a patient as an attending. There are people you can ask, but even new attendings, whether general pedi or specialists are the final go-to person. It's a very different sense and a big transition.

Now go celebrate the end of med school, get ready to take the NRP (and PALS?) courses and good luck.

Regards

OBP

 

[AnnaMags]

I'm also on call on July 1st. While many people worried that this might be the case, I never even thought about it. So, I was a bit surprised to see my name on the schedule! It brings a little more nervousness into the picture, that's for sure.

Here's another way to think about it though. You'll be a veteran on Sunday. While everyone else is still worried about that first night on call, you will have already conquered it. Now, I know there will still be so much to learn!! But it does help to think of it in a different perspective.

And, for now, I'll just keep praying that the seniors want to help me get through it.

 

[Homunculus]

i would rather take a 23 weeker than a 6 year old

😕 😱 😕

--your friendly neighborhood 23 weekers never let him sleep when on call caveman

 

[adpi_med]

😕 😱 😕

--your friendly neighborhood 23 weekers never let him sleep when on call caveman

Yeah, I'm crazy...
But I have been exposed to the NICU since day 1 of med school, so I'm "comfortable" there. I use "comfortable" in a relative way. I would rather be up all night with a 23 weeker, for some weird reason. The 23 weekers never let me sleep either 😉 But I like taking care of them.

 

[edmadison]

Yeah, If you are comfortable with a 23 weeker than you are the only one -- including the neos.

 

[dtn3t]

😕 😱 😕

--your friendly neighborhood 23 weekers never let him sleep when on call caveman

If I remember correctly, I too took call on 1 July in the NICU as an intern, but fortunately had a very good Caveman guiding me throughout that night. Don't worry, you will all be fine. You're interns, you're not supposed to know anything...yet.

 

[Doc-Hollywood]

I don't think it's the interns that should be worried.

It's the patients and their families who ought to be scared to death!

Don't get sick in July!


-just kidding ( sort of )