what did you learn in your rotation?

[lealf-ye]

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I just finished my first rotation in Family medicine. I felt that I learned nothing besides how to present my patient. I did OK in the shelf( >80%ile), but I don't feel I can write order, work up a patient or write progress note with A/P completely by myself. Is this normal or I am a ******ed MS3? 🙁

 

[(nicedream)]

I just finished my first rotation in Family medicine. I felt that I learned nothing besides how to present my patient. I did OK in the shelf( >80%ile), but I don't feel I can write order, work up a patient or write progress note with A/P completely by myself. Is this normal or I am a ******ed MS3? 🙁

I don't think you're expected to be able to function completely autonomously after one month of a specialty. This is beginning of 3rd year, it's still quite early.

 

[Syranope2]

I just finished my first rotation in Family medicine. I felt that I learned nothing besides how to present my patient. I did OK in the shelf( >80%ile), but I don't feel I can write order, work up a patient or write progress note with A/P completely by myself. Is this normal or I am a ******ed MS3? 🙁

i'm not exactly sure what is in a family medicine rotation as my school doesn't do them, but I have spent two months on inpatient medicine and one month on outpatient medicine, and I can say I learned toooooons more on inpatient about patient care, A/P, etc. than I did on the outpatient service. You did fine on the shelf, so I'd just trust that you're doing fine and wait for the inpatient stuff to really solidify some of your skills

 

[fang]

I just finished my first rotation in Family medicine. I felt that I learned nothing besides how to present my patient.

I learned that I didn't want to be a family physician!! 😀

 

[Dr JPH]

I just finished my first rotation in Family medicine. I felt that I learned nothing besides how to present my patient. I did OK in the shelf( >80%ile), but I don't feel I can write order, work up a patient or write progress note with A/P completely by myself. Is this normal or I am a ******ed MS3? 🙁

Your knowledge base will grow exponentially in the next two years.

If you can present a patient then you are off to a good start.

Writing orders and knowing waht to do for a thorough workup comes with time.

Even interns and junior residents dont always hit all the points of the Assessment/Plan...at least not to the full liking of the attending.

You will get there. Just keep working and paying attention.

 

[AmoryBlaine]

Your knowledge base will grow exponentially in the next two years.

If you can present a patient then you are off to a good start.

Writing orders and knowing waht to do for a thorough workup comes with time.

Even interns and junior residents dont always hit all the points of the Assessment/Plan...at least not to the full liking of the attending.

You will get there. Just keep working and paying attention.

Really dude, if you can present intelligently and succintly you will be miles ahead of many of your classmates and even some of the 4th years IMHO.

When I'm a resident I will be looking for M3s that can gather info, burn off the chaff, and present me what I need to know; not for a student that can manage pts him/herself...

 

[Anka]

The odd thing about most of the learning you do during the clinical years is that you don't know you're doing it. I mean, in basic science, you can go home and say "today I learned the Krebb's cycle". In the clinical years, it's more like one day you realize, "Wow, I actually know what to do about this," or "Wow, I'm not struggling with presentations as much as I used to." On a day to day level, though, you often feel "Ugh... all I did today was run around seeing another patient every 15 minutes, and I didn't even get a chance to read about half the things that came up." or, on an inpatient rotation, "Ugh, all I did today was find films, round for five hours, draw blood, and get coffee for my team! When are they going to teach me something in exchange for all this scut? This is so useless."

That said, some rotations are more high yield than others, as previous posters have pointed out.

Best,
Anka

 

[mdphd2b]

I learned that I didn't want to be a family physician!! 😀

I totally agree!!! I finished my month-long Fam Med clerkship last Friday, and realized that although I learned a lot, it just wasn't for me. Plus, I had to commute to an off-site location qday. The next 2 mos I will be on campus, so saving gas money for a change 🙄

 

[Dunce]

I learned that I didn't want to be a family physician!! 😀

I'm not the only one!

I started on family medicine backin July and I learned that I really hate the idea of outpatient primary care clinic. This was confirmed this past week on my peds rotation where I had the pleasure of some more clinic duties.

I switched from f/u DM, HTN on my family med rotation to a mind-numbing non-stop flow of WCCs and otitis media on Peds. 😴