I suppose. I do still have one month of Sr. surgery left - the way it works here is that 3rd years are sent to the OR constantly, while the 4th years stay on the floor with the interns. I was also on 2 Pedi surg rotations- one at Shriners Burns and one in regular general Pedi. We had 2 maybe 3 students on the team, with 10-15 patients, so we couldnt spread it around like the General teams that had 7-8 students and the same number of patients. And as for rounds....we had to cover all patients on the service - with 2-3 students, that leaves just enough time to shuffle papers, take notes on your current patient, and remember who the next one is before moving on to another one of your patients. Plus, in Shriners, there was a dearth of residents, so it was our responsibility to oversee our patient's management = get all the tests oredered and done, write orders, follow up on them, admit & discharge paperwork, etc... plus we also were supposed to spend time with the nurses doing central lines, IVs, adjusting respirators, etc...but burns management is also way different that say, managing an appendectomy...so... Being pure Pedi also screwed me on the exam, since management is different for kids than it is for adults, especially since kids dont usually have all those co-morbid conditions like CHF and diabetes etc.
LOL Im really not bitter, though I just read through this and i realize I sound bitter. Im just glad its over and next year I DONT have to go to the OR. (We did learn techniques, and especially in Shriners were often responsible for parts of the surgery - kind of an "everyone take a limb" thing. In other surgeries, we would bovie, suture, all that fun stuff. I even got to do one hernia repair just me and the resident once.)
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