I started off the day pretty confused. I was accepted into this rotation pretty late, as in 2 weeks before it started and actually wasn’t even officially accepted until the Friday before with the last correspondence of whether or not I would be allowed in the hospital being equivocal. Fortunately, it all worked out and I was able to get my badge and everything, but didn’t have any instructions on where to go after that. So I wondered around and found the resident work-up. Meekly badged in and explained my situation with my saddest puppy dog eyes. They said they would try to help me out. I got some info about who the attend on service was. Eventually I went to the GME office once it opened and someone there was able to contact the ID attending. Lucky for me he turned out to be one of nicest guys ever. Very helpful, good teacher, super patient. It was overall a good introduction into ID and back into hospital medicine after my hiatus studying for Step 2.
At the end of the day I met the attending who will be taking over tomorrow and he tells me to go ahead and see all the patients in the morning and the text him when I’m done so we can round. It feels like a pretty intense return, but also not surprising at this point in my training, but also at the same time I’m excited to see patients on my own again.