scheduling 3rd year..

[exeunt]

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it's time for us to submit our rotation preferences and i'm feeling really overwhelmed🙁 the thing is we have to pick blocks.. we have to do surgery/peds/ob-gyn in one half of the year, and everything else in the other half. i originally wanted to do IM first, then surgery, then maybe an easier rotation, but now if i do surgery in my second half of the year, i'd have to end with that or ob/gyn and i feel like i'd be burned out by then. what do you guys think? should i still do the medicine block first, or save it for second (as it includes FM, ambulatory, neuro/psych)? if i do the surgery block first, would it be better to start with surgery or ob/gyn? any advice is appreciated

 

[235009]

i'd say try to put what you're interested in the most (for residency) in the second half of the year THOUGH medicine does give you a very solid foundation for all other rotation HOWEVER it is very hard to do well in as the first block.

 

[FSU2013]

it's time for us to submit our rotation preferences and i'm feeling really overwhelmed🙁 the thing is we have to pick blocks.. we have to do surgery/peds/ob-gyn in one half of the year, and everything else in the other half. i originally wanted to do IM first, then surgery, then maybe an easier rotation, but now if i do surgery in my second half of the year, i'd have to end with that or ob/gyn and i feel like i'd be burned out by then. what do you guys think? should i still do the medicine block first, or save it for second (as it includes FM, ambulatory, neuro/psych)? if i do the surgery block first, would it be better to start with surgery or ob/gyn? any advice is appreciated

I started on family med and thought it was an ideal way to start the year. I felt like I had a head start on everything else. If you are on a strong service/with a good attending, you'll see a bunch of psych, peds, gyn and see a lot of surgery for preop/followup. The hours were regular which gave me a ton of time to study, so by the time I hit the other rotations I was quite knowledgeable.
I know that conventional knowledge says to start with IM, but I wouldn't want to start with it- I think I'm getting so much more out of it now that I'm in the 2nd half of my year because I already have most of the basics down.

Just one man's opinion. Cheers.

 

[kaleerkalut]

i'd say try to put what you're interested in the most (for residency) in the second half of the year THOUGH medicine does give you a very solid foundation for all other rotation HOWEVER it is very hard to do well in as the first block.

Gulp...Just read this and I got Med first...

 

[ruiner]

it's time for us to submit our rotation preferences and i'm feeling really overwhelmed🙁 the thing is we have to pick blocks.. we have to do surgery/peds/ob-gyn in one half of the year, and everything else in the other half. i originally wanted to do IM first, then surgery, then maybe an easier rotation, but now if i do surgery in my second half of the year, i'd have to end with that or ob/gyn and i feel like i'd be burned out by then. what do you guys think? should i still do the medicine block first, or save it for second (as it includes FM, ambulatory, neuro/psych)? if i do the surgery block first, would it be better to start with surgery or ob/gyn? any advice is appreciated

i got stuck with ob/gyn first, surgery 3rd and medicine in the spring. not super happy how it turned out (want to go into surgery) but some say it is nice having ob first since you get surg and med exposure, and i'm sure it'll work out, people do it every year.