MD & DO What was the Chillest You've been in a Rotation?

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In my case i vividly remember this one time i was in psych rotation and had the opportunity to play table tennis after lunch. Some patients joined in. Can we classify this as occupational therapy?
There are definitely chill rotations, share some of your experiences.
 
Overnight shift in the ED from 8pm to 6am. Had 3 patients all night and all of them came in before 11. Talked about music festivals with my attending and co-student for 2 hours then got to sleep from around 1 until 6.

Attending also gave me match day off with the condition that I texted to let him know where I matched so he could offer congratulations or condolences.
 
Stagg737 said:
Overnight shift in the ED from 8pm to 6am. Had 3 patients all night and all of them came in before 11. Talked about music festivals with my attending and co-student for 2 hours then got to sleep from around 1 until 6.

Attending also gave me match day off with the condition that I texted to let him know where I matched so he could offer congratulations or condolences.
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Which one did you get?
 
Stagg737 said:
Overnight shift in the ED from 8pm to 6am. Had 3 patients all night and all of them came in before 11. Talked about music festivals with my attending and co-student for 2 hours then got to sleep from around 1 until 6.

Attending also gave me match day off with the condition that I texted to let him know where I matched so he could offer congratulations or condolences.
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Had a 12 hour day shift in the ED. During a major blizzard. Not a single patient. Kind of creepy really.
 
MS3 psych rotation. Doing mindfulness meditation/napping on a yoga mat on the floor of my attending's office for 30 min at lunchtime each day, followed by post-lunch walks (with the said attending) on beautiful old state hospital premises. Never wavered in my specialty choice since.
 
My entire psych rotation. Was never there past 2 lol
 
My surgery rotation surprisingly... The general surgery half was with a nearly-retired surgeon who was barely in the OR. I drove over an hour each way without traffic, but still made it home in time every day to go to the dog park and then study. I regretted this later when I actually ended up enjoying OBGYN and then applying for it. The second half of my rotation was ophthalmology, which was regular office hours.

My psych rotation was usually done by 11AM. Once again I wished that I had a better experience.

On my very last cardiology rotation as an MS-4, my fellow classmate did not show up for a single day of the rotation (probably knew the attending or something). I would never have the balls to do something like that! 😵 He kind of has an attitude that may not go well with residency, so I'm not sure how he's doing. So I think his experience would take the cake.
 
4th year anesthesia. Went in from 6-11:30 the first 4 days, sat in on ECT for 2 hours one day, and was given the rest of the month off after that. Got honors. Plus my apt. was literally a 30sec walk from the hospital so I could pretty much just roll out of bed and show up.
 
4th year my med school had an international elective. I "worked" with my uncles who were physicians there the whole time. Wonderful month. Got pretty good evals too.
 
Consult service in Palliative. I'd show up around 9, check to see if my attending had dropped me a message on when to meet/which patient to see. Usually it'd be something like "mehc012 go see Mr B, we'll all meet at 1pm to round". I'd go see my patient, write a quick note, and then nap in the call room until 1pm. We'd round in an hour and I'd go home.

Some days, though, there were no patients, so I literally text paged my attending the call room number and napped until they sent me home, having done nothing. Others they wouldn't be in until late, so they'd have me see a patient, drop a note, and just leave. I'd never even see the attending that day, just be on my own all day working, with only 1 patient to see.

It was truly glorious.
 
I did a combined rheumatology/derm elective during my intern year. Rounded with rheum attending twice a week and derm attending twice a week. We’d average 5-10consults per week. My weekly work commitment was 10-12hrs/week. Enjoyed NYC the rest of the time.

As an aside, the derm attending was a society lady who wore big hats and designer suits to rounds. Sometimes we’d have no consults and just talk derm topics over lunch.
 
nimbus said:
As an aside, the derm attending was a society lady who wore big hats and designer suits to rounds. Sometimes we’d have no consults and just talk derm topics over lunch.
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This is perhaps as much a society thing as it is a Derm thing - for the UV protection and such.
 
LoGo said:
This is perhaps as much a society thing as it is a Derm thing - for the UV protection and such.
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UV protection from all the fluorescent lighting during rounds? :laugh:
 
During match week I was on MICU and I just decided to not show up the whole week. After match I strolled in and the attending noticed I was back.
Him: “where have you been? Walking around in a drunken haze?”
Me: “yes.”
Him: “welcome back.”
 
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Radiology 4th year. Showed up the first day for 2 hours and that was it. Basically a month of vacation.

Not exaggerating.
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As a radiology resident, I admit that this is what I used my radiology rotation for if I wasn't sneaking off into the IR suite.

Watching someone reading studies is boring as fuk unless you know what's going on and you're engaged. I liked radiology (and still love it now), but I would nod off in the reading room when I wasn't engaged.

And I can't speak for all radiology residents, but I don't mind if students peace-out early. I enjoy teaching students and it does force one to know their stuff lest they appear stupid, but you guys do slow my work flow down.
 
Actually on rotation rather than just short hours was Peds PM&R. After rounding on the 3-4 inpatients in the morning my role several days a week was to go to therapies with the kids for the rest of the day, which meant I was playing cards and playing with clay and baking brownies and playing wii. It was fun and one of the times I felt most useful on a rotation as the kids and therapists both loved having an extra person around and I could make different kinds of games possible then the usual they do with just 1 therapist and 1 kid. It was also incredibly depressing overall as a rotation, but those days were fun.
 
"Special elective in research" (granted this was in place of normally vacation, but most people do something during their vacation months)

Did all of my "work" from home. Maybe put in about 50 hours work the entire month. Got a 2nd author publication from it. Played video games the rest of the time.

Family med was chill as well, only about 5-7 hours per day 4 days per week. I suspect MS4 will be V chill.

As an aside, internal med was disgusting. Worked 90 hours some weeks.
 
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