What to pick for Electives

[Venus21pam]

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I will be starting my internship this July and I only have two months of electives.
Any advise on what rotations to pick for those?

I want to do something that will be beneficial for my future anesthesia training but not anesthesia rotation per se.

Thanks in advance for your input.

 

[Coastie]

Excellent question. I'm in the same boat.

I'm thinking cards and pulmonology, but I'm shooting in the dark.

 

[VentdependenT]

cards and pulm are good choices.

Make sure to do a unit month or two no matter how painful it is. It'll serve you well.

If you have a rough year ahead of you then I suggest taking a chill elective. Give yourself some breathing room. Rads or path will suffice. This is good advice people.

 

[Venus21pam]

Thanks you guys.

I was actually thinking the same thing: card and pulmonology.

But rads sounds really good though. I mean my prelim is mostly medicine (even though it is labeled as TY) so a breather like that would be nice.

 

[Unconscious]

I will be starting my internship this July and I only have two months of electives.
Any advise on what rotations to pick for those?

I want to do something that will be beneficial for my future anesthesia training but not anesthesia rotation per se.

Thanks in advance for your input.

I would recommend to take a month of ENT if you can. if you have an ENT dept. that is busy, you'll get to do tons of scopes (I got 30-40) plus get to go to OR and ask to use the anterior Commissure scope (it gets handy to know how to use it in difficult airway, ie using miller 3, etc...) this rotation can be cush as well so you get the best of 2 worlds. also a unit month will get you lots of IJ/SC/A-lines.

 

[Trisomy13]

pediatric ICU if your institution has a large and active unit. probably my best month this year. when is the last time you cared for a post-op repair of transposition of the great vessels? you have the opportunity to brush up on some core cardio/pulm physiology, drips, infant-sized a-lines, 6 day old with an open chest...

i also second the ENT suggestion, for the exact reasons noted in the previous post.