Drinking Water from a Firehose
I attended the orientation session for the Internal Medicine Clerkship this morning.
First, the bad news: I felt overwhelmed after only 3 hours of the director telling us what was expected of us.
The good news: Everyone else feels the exact same way.
The medical students' day begins around 6:30 am, pre-rounding on patients. Afterwards there are Morning Rounds, seminars, Attending Rounds, presentations, and more seminars. Plus there's this long-call/short-call thing that nobody understands - yet. Depending on whether the student's team is on call, the day could end at 5pm, or 7pm, or 10pm, or midnight. Plus the clerkship director estimates that we need to do about 10-15 hours of reading every week to keep up. Looks like I'll need at least that to take in all the material that we're expected to know. Here's a picture of all the reference books that I'll have my nose buried in for the next 11 weeks:
Yep. Should be a party.
First, the bad news: I felt overwhelmed after only 3 hours of the director telling us what was expected of us.
The good news: Everyone else feels the exact same way.
The medical students' day begins around 6:30 am, pre-rounding on patients. Afterwards there are Morning Rounds, seminars, Attending Rounds, presentations, and more seminars. Plus there's this long-call/short-call thing that nobody understands - yet. Depending on whether the student's team is on call, the day could end at 5pm, or 7pm, or 10pm, or midnight. Plus the clerkship director estimates that we need to do about 10-15 hours of reading every week to keep up. Looks like I'll need at least that to take in all the material that we're expected to know. Here's a picture of all the reference books that I'll have my nose buried in for the next 11 weeks:
Yep. Should be a party.
posted by Mikey at 5:15 PM
4 Comments:
I love the big splat on the spine of Harrison's Principles.... But wouldn't that be more appropriate for either surgery or Gastro-enterology?
Good guess. The splat represents what the third-year medical student looks like 3 weeks into the medicine rotation.
very very funny you two~! prefer the gastro angle mahselm(special way to myself)
chow
kat
But it's so true. That was me after 'Attending Rounds' today. Argh.
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