I have always enjoyed working in hospitals, and really missed it for my GP rotation, in spite of the ease of parking and close proximity to the real world.
We received our rosters and information about the sessions that we will be attending as well as planned teaching slots.
Fingers crossed that it goes well!
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I hate medicine (internal medicine here). It's so depressing. How long is your rotation? I was counting the days...
It is 8 weeks long, and then we get a couple more next year. :)
Sad that you didn't like it, but then I think (hope) there is an area in med for everybody.
I guess there is. It also depends on the population. General internal medicine can be interesting if the internists do a lot...or hell if it is an entire ward of vegetables. That's what it was where I did my first rotation (12 weeks, doh!) and it was so depressing. One day we went to lunch and came back and six patients were taken off the list. It all seemed so futile. Long discussions about what exactly was wrong with people with 0 prognosis.
BUT - that's where you really learn the basics of medicine and medical thinking. We are set up so you always do it first...because there's so much you probably don't get on GP rotations and others without that strong base.
Your internal medicine sounds like it might be slightly different to ours.
I used to find being around ICU patients and dying ED patients depressing, but I got used to it a few years ago when I first started working in hospitals full-time. I'm glad I had that experience prior to medicine. Learning how to switch off but still be there is a valuable skill. I like to focus on the small victories, hopefully I'll be able to do the same in med when it gets gloomy.
I have been doing GP and missing hospital stuff as well, though GP is always good. Maybe one of those GP/anasthetist combos would give me the best of both worlds.
I have gen med coming up and am looking forward to that...
Dragonfly, sounds like you might be keen for rural generalist training. ;)
All things are possible. (Well, ortho is pretty much out, as is sports med). :-)
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