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Hello all! I am faced with a decision that I could use some input on. Suppose for a moment please you were a 4th year medical student who is dead set on EM and have two four week elective blocks to fill. Your choices are the following:
1) Trauma surgery at hospital A which you did one of your 2 EM rotations at and which is one of the sites affiliated with an area EM residency (Big deal for you as you went to a caribean school and EM residencies in your area usually don't take students from these schools for rotations.
2) Ortho surgery at hospital B where you did your surgery core rotation to gain more exposure in fracture managment and repair though you did receive some exposure during your surgical core.
3) Anesthesia at hospital B where you are fairly certain you will get some good practice with intubations and maybe a few LPs
Again you have to pick 2. My thoughts now are probably Trauma surgery due to the chance at getting more face time with the faculty of that local EM residency and then Anesthesia since I have little experience with intubations but do have some experience with splinting/casting and reductions. Any and all thoughts are greatly appreciated. 🙂
1) Trauma surgery at hospital A which you did one of your 2 EM rotations at and which is one of the sites affiliated with an area EM residency (Big deal for you as you went to a caribean school and EM residencies in your area usually don't take students from these schools for rotations.
2) Ortho surgery at hospital B where you did your surgery core rotation to gain more exposure in fracture managment and repair though you did receive some exposure during your surgical core.
3) Anesthesia at hospital B where you are fairly certain you will get some good practice with intubations and maybe a few LPs
Again you have to pick 2. My thoughts now are probably Trauma surgery due to the chance at getting more face time with the faculty of that local EM residency and then Anesthesia since I have little experience with intubations but do have some experience with splinting/casting and reductions. Any and all thoughts are greatly appreciated. 🙂