Maybe it’s a misnomer to title all these as FM ED. Technically, this is all just FM inpatient, but it’s being split into 2 weeks of ED and 2 weeks of like wards. But to make it more confusing during these first 2 weeks I’m also spending time in the Urgent Care clinic and the normal primary care/ continuity clinic. Today I was in Urgent Care which was my first exposure to working UC as a student. It was kinda a nice blend of ED and primary care in that it’s single-problem, but there is some opportunity to do more patient education and create follow-up (just not with the UC). Note writing is also relatively simple and focused.
One of my attending today gave me some pretty high praise and I was feeling good cause I was kinda nailing my patient encounters from getting the history, to doing a focused physical, and creating assessments and plans (albeit for relatively straightforward cases), including a case of likely EBV/ mono. There was a rising 2nd year resident who was also working his first shift in the UC and I felt like I was at least keeping up with him.
Later in the afternoon we had “core conference” but today it was more of a promotion ceremony for the incoming residents, rising 2nd years, and graduating 3rd year residents. There was lot of good wisdom being thrown around. One of the things that kinda stuck with me mostly cause I thought it was kinda sweet and sounded fun was one of the residents talking about how their experience in this residency felt like “running a hospital with your friends,” and I just thought that was a nice sentiment.
nANIMOv 