Rotations Underway
Hey! Long time since my last entry. No surprise, really, I had a lot keeping me busy since January... I mean first there was skit night , that took a while, and then I had to study for the boards, that took almost as long, and now I'm already just about done with my second rotation. Time flies when you're chronically sleep-deprived. We started 3rd-year rotations in June. The point of these rotations is to expose us to many fields and get our wards senses to sprout. We have to do Internal Medicine (12 wks), Surgery (8wks), Psychiatry (6wks), OB/GYN (6wks), Geriatrics (2wks), Pediatrics (8wks), Radiology (2wks), and Family Medicine (4wks). We have little input regarding the order of our rotations - we get assigned a specific schedule, but we can trade with a classmate - but the order isn't really that important, anyway, unless what you want to do is last. (Well, that depends who you ask, truthfully. Some would tell you it's really important and determines what...