Family Medicine Inpatient – Day 1

I was a bit concerned transitioning back to the inpatient side. I thought I would not have my chops or that I would get a bit under-stimulated after the constant fluctuation I had gotten used to in the ED. While I wouldn’t say I necessarily shined today in terms of performance, I definitely have come a long way from when I was on Internal Medicine almost a year ago, and I enjoyed working/ thinking though long problem lists and wide differentials. I do think that I maybe prefer walking rounds compared to table rounds. We have a few interesting patients and I feel like I’m missing out when I don’t get to at least briefly see or examine the other patients. But I get it, it takes a bit more time and you can’t simultaneously work as much while table rounding. As I continue to become more competent and further develop my clinical reasoning this all just becomes more fun (the main barrier is still just the anxiety of presenting/ failing/ saying something dumb to an attending who doesn’t explore why you think what you think).