| | The information in today's orientation was a lot more immediately applicable that the previous day's orientation. Yesterday it was mostly conceptual constructs of what it meant to be professional, practice systems-based medicine, etc... Today there was a lot more practical information in regards to ordering labs, admitting patients and writing notes.
I have 37 fellow residents in my class and have thus far only really learned about 6-7 names. No wait... make that 8.
We won't be seeing our first patients until next week and already I'm starting to feel overwhelmed by the amount of information we've been given. My only comfort is that we're basically expected to be idiots on our first day/week/month of residency. What was also striking today was how quickly residency is expected to fly by. We were told today if we want to pursue fellowship training after our 3 years of internal medicine we were expected not only to know by the end of our first year, but also be in the process of applying by the beginning of our second year. Doesn't leave much room to get the requisite research and publications done that are a given for anyone wanting subspecialty training. It's only been recently that I've admitted to myself that it's my fickleness that landed me in internal medicine so the news of this made me sweat a bit during the presentation.
I just received my schedule for my first month and I'll be working at a well renowned cancer hospital in Manhattan on their gastroenterology cancer service. I'm feeling quite intimidated about the prospect of managing cancer patients. I also found out that I'll be on call July 4th. =/ sucks to be the bitch intern. |
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