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I need guidance on how to be efficient in our IM rotation, we started about a week back.
I go in hospital before my co-intern does, I get started before him, but, my work seems to be lacking. To give you an example, we have night shift and have to sign out by 5 pm.
I am always finishing my notes later than the co-intern and end up staying later. I thought this was due to hard patients (I get called on an hourly basis about some of my pts), but hard patients can't explain everything.
A day before, I made a careless mistake, where one of my notes had carried over from yesterday in physical exam. Though things hadn't changed drastically, but, still my attending had to call and inform me.
Similarly, I had a pt, we are looking at from the perspective of an infection, which can cause anemia, pt. signs and sxs included dizziness, pt.s hgb had trended around 10.2-4. I forgot to present this as a problem to my attending the day before and the day I was off, her hgb dropped down to 9 something and my senior included anemia as a problem in his note. *** and this was the day I though had been nothing less than perfect for me.
Things have gotten to the point, I double, triple check my notes after writing them. I am also scared of presenting in front of attendings and present plans to senior before attendings, but, still mess up.
As a this year medical student, I had an extremely poor Internal Medicine rotation, with regards to their attitude towards me and in all fairness mine towards them. things had gotten to the point that I was terrified in any rotation to come, ended up failing my next rotation and almost got kicked out of medical school and had to take a few months of leave just to get life back on track with regards to step exams, recovering from that attending and such.
As a fourth year, I used to look at any wards experience, either as a thing to avoid altogether or wanted it to be quickly over with.
Every time I find myself on ward, I see myself as that third year who was the proverbial screw up.
I know there isn't a magic bullet or a medication that can fix this in an instant. This will take hardwork on my part, but, I don't want to hate wards. I want to look at it as an enjoyable experience, something where I don't want to worry each night that tomorrow I will have to face my attending. I don't want to have to worry after each mistake, they going to fail me. Is there a way to move forward in this rotation and do steps to address this?
I go in hospital before my co-intern does, I get started before him, but, my work seems to be lacking. To give you an example, we have night shift and have to sign out by 5 pm.
I am always finishing my notes later than the co-intern and end up staying later. I thought this was due to hard patients (I get called on an hourly basis about some of my pts), but hard patients can't explain everything.
A day before, I made a careless mistake, where one of my notes had carried over from yesterday in physical exam. Though things hadn't changed drastically, but, still my attending had to call and inform me.
Similarly, I had a pt, we are looking at from the perspective of an infection, which can cause anemia, pt. signs and sxs included dizziness, pt.s hgb had trended around 10.2-4. I forgot to present this as a problem to my attending the day before and the day I was off, her hgb dropped down to 9 something and my senior included anemia as a problem in his note. *** and this was the day I though had been nothing less than perfect for me.
Things have gotten to the point, I double, triple check my notes after writing them. I am also scared of presenting in front of attendings and present plans to senior before attendings, but, still mess up.
As a this year medical student, I had an extremely poor Internal Medicine rotation, with regards to their attitude towards me and in all fairness mine towards them. things had gotten to the point that I was terrified in any rotation to come, ended up failing my next rotation and almost got kicked out of medical school and had to take a few months of leave just to get life back on track with regards to step exams, recovering from that attending and such.
As a fourth year, I used to look at any wards experience, either as a thing to avoid altogether or wanted it to be quickly over with.
Every time I find myself on ward, I see myself as that third year who was the proverbial screw up.
I know there isn't a magic bullet or a medication that can fix this in an instant. This will take hardwork on my part, but, I don't want to hate wards. I want to look at it as an enjoyable experience, something where I don't want to worry each night that tomorrow I will have to face my attending. I don't want to have to worry after each mistake, they going to fail me. Is there a way to move forward in this rotation and do steps to address this?