Last night I emptied my dorm room of my belongings and went home to sleep, then drove back to TSH around 9:30 a.m. (we were meeting Dr. P for checkout at 11:00 a.m.) Somehow both Kyle and Randy missed hearing Dr. P saying, "Arrive at 11:00" and showed up at 7:30 a.m. instead, which gave Kyle lots of time to study. When Dr. P arrived, she first took me to her office so that I could read Dr. R's evaluation of my performance on this rotation. There was only a brief paragraph, but to summarize, Dr. R said that throughout my rotation my self-confidence and dictation skills improved, and she touched on my playing the violin to the patients, how much they enjoyed it, and how much I liked seeing their reactions to my playing. Wow...this lady is very observant. Still, if this letter is going to Dr. Budd, then I have nothing to be ashamed of. Unlike the last group that came through here...apparently their letters were not so stellar b/c they had a habit of ignoring her pages and arriving late to treatment team. Not professional. Afterwards we checked in our badges, keys, beepers, and everything else to Dr. R's nurse, and then...DONE!
Now that it's over, I'm amazed by how well David, Sital, Kyle, and I got along these last four weeks. I really couldn't have asked for better teammates. Even if we did have Dr. M for hell week, I know we would have helped each other get through it. Kyle's coming back to TSH later this year to complete part of his IM rotation; hopefully he'll do well in his other rotations.
Before we left, Dr. P also asked me what I'd be interested in specializing in. I said internal medicine, but I'm starting to contemplate psychiatry as well. It's almost never boring, and it's really satisfying to see what the the patients are like before and after treatment. We'll see =)
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