Friday Morning was about infection control. You know, like, washing your hands and knowing about personal protective equipment, and isolation. It was also more talk from the program director about clinic. And talk about logging in work hours which I completely zoned out from. And we had a tour of the clinic and met the LVNs and MAs who will be working with us. The good thing is they have all been there for atleast a few years. The LVN that works in my corner of the clinic has been there for over 20 years so she will be very valuable in knowing lots of stuff.
As a first year resident, we have clinic 1 to 2 half days per week and start off by seeing 3-4 patients. We get atleast 1 hour per patient and present to the preceptor. The first few clinics will be either mock patients or shadowing the preceptor. So it's a slow transition. It also gives us time to learn more about the EMR since it's a completely paperless clinic.
Then we had pictures taken in the afternoon. It was going to be our picture for the next 3 years and the picture they use on the website and post on the clinic wall. Then we went over the residency manual. This manual basically covered the contract we signed and explained what was required of us to complete residency. It mentioned that I should be reading 3 journals per month (#1 was American Family Physician journal which I've received for the past 4 years, but hardly read). I guess I have to start opening the journals I get in the mail now.
This evening was the Senior Banquet. Food was good and we all dressed up for the occasion. I wore the same dress I had on for the graduation/awards banquet at TCOM. I'm actually tired of going to socials. I really wanted to just stay home and do nothing. But I knew that I should probably participate. I finally learned where all the graduates were going since it was on the program. I was surprised to see that most weren't immediately joining a group practice.
Here's what they are doing:
a few doing hospitalist, a couple doing emergency medicine, one doing a fellowship at MDAnderson for palliative care, a couple doing group clinic practice, and the rest still looking for local jobs, but working temp jobs in the meantime.
As a first year resident, we have clinic 1 to 2 half days per week and start off by seeing 3-4 patients. We get atleast 1 hour per patient and present to the preceptor. The first few clinics will be either mock patients or shadowing the preceptor. So it's a slow transition. It also gives us time to learn more about the EMR since it's a completely paperless clinic.
Then we had pictures taken in the afternoon. It was going to be our picture for the next 3 years and the picture they use on the website and post on the clinic wall. Then we went over the residency manual. This manual basically covered the contract we signed and explained what was required of us to complete residency. It mentioned that I should be reading 3 journals per month (#1 was American Family Physician journal which I've received for the past 4 years, but hardly read). I guess I have to start opening the journals I get in the mail now.
This evening was the Senior Banquet. Food was good and we all dressed up for the occasion. I wore the same dress I had on for the graduation/awards banquet at TCOM. I'm actually tired of going to socials. I really wanted to just stay home and do nothing. But I knew that I should probably participate. I finally learned where all the graduates were going since it was on the program. I was surprised to see that most weren't immediately joining a group practice.
Here's what they are doing:
a few doing hospitalist, a couple doing emergency medicine, one doing a fellowship at MDAnderson for palliative care, a couple doing group clinic practice, and the rest still looking for local jobs, but working temp jobs in the meantime.
1 comment:
Man its nice to see you changed your background to your blog. You should give your blog a snazzy new title too. Yea we kinda did the same thing, we went over this 2in-binder of resident rules and manual, and told to log our procedures. Yea socials are fun but 4 in a row is exhausting for me too. Glad to hear someone also likes just couch and do nothing at home for a bit to "re-charge".
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