Third Year Skut Monkey

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9am - 5pm

I will be doing the most tedious skut work on record. Blood taking, talking on the phone, trying to get people on the phone and generally being a dog's body for all the more important people.

I will be so glad when this rotation is over and I get to move onto the next. (Not that there'll be any less skut work.) But I swear the current attending is some kind of lesser demon.

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yep. sounds about right for 3rd year rotations.

the sad part is when you have more experience than some of the people working there... (though not the attending. ever)

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At least when I get to the surgical rotation I won't be completely terrified given my experience here - but the first one I managed to get was 6 weeks in psychiatry - not my favourite. At least I'll get to rotate out to another site after three weeks. The Grand rounds aren't too bad though.

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that one wasn't my fave, but peds was worse.

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I don't mind babies so much - I've been thinking of looking into doing some emergency medicine electives in fourth year - might help me out a lot around this place.

Neurology and Surgery look the most interesting right now though. (I have a feeling I may change my mind at any moment, depending on how rotations go. )

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ER/surgery was my faves, but I also suspected they would be since that's where I have the most experience, too.

The thing with kids is I hated seeing them in pain or causing them pain or anything like that. They thought being purple was kinda cool though usually.

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It gets better, I Swear.

Surgery was obviously my favorite rotation, even though it's exhausting as hell.
Psych is by far the worst. Worst worst worst hours, and it's not even remotely fun.