M3 year is a completely new, fascinating world. I'm glad I started on OB/GYN... I truly love it. Not that I'm surprised, I always figured it'd be my second choice behind peds. However, I'm putting a lot more thought into that than I ever imagined. I have one more week on the OB side, then I'll be on GYN... after that, I'll be able to make a rational decision as to my overall experience. But so far:
*GREAT small group (C, S, and S are fantastic partners and we work really well together)
*awesome interns
*surgery isn't as bad as I expected... never passed out, and I'm getting more used to the OR. Granted so far I've been on C-sections (but a couple of them were quite complicated).
*enough autonomy to make you feel like you're doing something, enough supervision to make you feel like you're not going to screw up
*baby-catching is AMAZING. Shocker, right?
*there's this emergency feel to L&D.. it's either super slow or crazy busy.
I don't think I'd do so well in small, "happy" (normal) practice... but I LOVE the critical care aspect of our population. OB/GYN with a Maternal Fetal Medicine fellowship is certainly not out of the question.
Tonight we switch to night schedule, which should be an interesting chain of events. I'm not sure how my body will handle the adjustment, but hopefully there'll be just enough activity to keep us awake. Plus side to nights: no lectures!!
Sunday, June 19, 2011
baby-catching
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Ha! I love the OB part...to me, GYN was miserable!!! We shall see what you think. ;-) In OB, at least there is a baby at the end.
As to the duty hours, I do think you're right. Eventually, everything is going to be shift work and I do see residencies ending up being 4 years long...fellowships, not sure about that. I could see them still being three (though for some of them even THAT is too long!).
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