Well, day 3 of family medicine which is not family medicine, it is internal medicine. We admit patients, round of patients, follow them to discharge. Granted, I am sure I will continue to learn a lot and this will help me for fourth year but the hours suck. Monday I left "early" (around 4 but still had a 7 hour day). I was feeling sick and ended up throwing up in the ER bathroom right before I was going to do an admission. I left early which probably wasn't the best first impression on my team (4 med students and a resident) but whatever, I felt like shit. When I got to work on Tuesday I heard the students saying "we got slammed with admits" only to find out they added 4 patients- meaning they each did 1 admit. I'm not sure if it's just this service or what, but I've rounded, admitted, consulted on a lot more patients...by myself. i didnt feel too bad about leaving after that.
Tuesday I worked 8am till 4pm which was great. But sadly, this is the shortest shift I will have and it won't happen often.
Today I am working from 10am to 11pm. Got here at 10, wrote notes (I had 1 patient...not too crazy) rounded at 3 to 4:30 and then sat in the residence/student lounge and waited for admits.
Tomorrow I will do the same shift, 10am to 11pm. Then I have Friday off, work 8am to 8pm Saturday then off on Sunday. Then we start nights next week, 8pm to 8am.
I'm not really enjoying it but maybe I will later once I get the hang of it. Haven't done or seen anything too exciting yet
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