After orientation (Thursday & Friday), I spent the entire weekend moving and unpacking. Also, I went to a baseball game on Sunday night hosted by the Dr. E for all the medical students and a few attendings. It was a nice set up. We had a shaded tent area reserved with a private swimming pool and hot tub (I never imagined that a baseball field would ever have a swimming pool.) We had hamburgers, hot dogs, soda, and unlimited beer (but, of course, I can't stand the taste of beer). I was surprised at how laid back everyone was, especially in front of the attendings.
Monday arrived sooner than I wanted it to. Getting up at 5:30 am was really hard. So I got up at 5:45 instead. I'm supposed to arrive at the hospital at 7 am for morning report, so I left semi-early. I drive to the employee parking lot to discover that it's completely full. Now I only have 4 minutes to get to the conference room before I'm late. So I hurry up and park at the visitor parking lot (actually, I didn't know where I was parking. I just parked at the first empty lot I found). I rushed to the elevator (btw, I didn't exactly know where the conference rm was exactly except that it was on the 5th floor) and I notice a couple of interns/residents in the elevator also going up to the 5th, one of whom would be the resident I follow because I recognized his name on his white coat. So when we all got off the elevator, I just followed them and arrived at morning report with, literally, a few seconds to spare.
Morning report, I learned, was basically presenting new admits that came in last night in the emergency room. Whoever had night call (6pm-7am) would report their findings (SOAP note) to everyone at morning report (7-8 am). They discuss their plan with the attending and the attending gives feedback and also pimps the presenter about the case. Then they can go home and go to sleep. The residents & students who work in the day would follow up on the patients. I find morning report to be most intimidating because it's a large group of 20 physicians & students. When I say intimidating, I mean I won't look forward too much to presenting the case when I have my week of night call.
My first assignment was to check up on 2 patients. Dr. R (who is a 3rd year resident, was an orthopedic surgeon in another country for many years before deciding to come here which requires doing residency) is very knowledgeable & laid back and basically said "see patient A in room 100 and patient B in the ER, and write a SOAP note with updated labs and page me when you're done."
Monday arrived sooner than I wanted it to. Getting up at 5:30 am was really hard. So I got up at 5:45 instead. I'm supposed to arrive at the hospital at 7 am for morning report, so I left semi-early. I drive to the employee parking lot to discover that it's completely full. Now I only have 4 minutes to get to the conference room before I'm late. So I hurry up and park at the visitor parking lot (actually, I didn't know where I was parking. I just parked at the first empty lot I found). I rushed to the elevator (btw, I didn't exactly know where the conference rm was exactly except that it was on the 5th floor) and I notice a couple of interns/residents in the elevator also going up to the 5th, one of whom would be the resident I follow because I recognized his name on his white coat. So when we all got off the elevator, I just followed them and arrived at morning report with, literally, a few seconds to spare.
Morning report, I learned, was basically presenting new admits that came in last night in the emergency room. Whoever had night call (6pm-7am) would report their findings (SOAP note) to everyone at morning report (7-8 am). They discuss their plan with the attending and the attending gives feedback and also pimps the presenter about the case. Then they can go home and go to sleep. The residents & students who work in the day would follow up on the patients. I find morning report to be most intimidating because it's a large group of 20 physicians & students. When I say intimidating, I mean I won't look forward too much to presenting the case when I have my week of night call.
My first assignment was to check up on 2 patients. Dr. R (who is a 3rd year resident, was an orthopedic surgeon in another country for many years before deciding to come here which requires doing residency) is very knowledgeable & laid back and basically said "see patient A in room 100 and patient B in the ER, and write a SOAP note with updated labs and page me when you're done."
3 comments:
Getting up at 5:30 am was really hard. So I got up at 5:45 instead.
Classic Jennifer.
LOL, I got to agree with him there =D
hey, I'm just being honest! :P
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