Ortho: Day One

Nothing much happened today. I went to All Saints to get "certified" (took a HIPAA quiz) and then swung by JPS to talk to Margie about not being able to evaluate my surgery rotation online. I stopped by the call room to use the nearby computer and saw Jacob and Natacha there waiting for their residents to call them to tell them where to go. They, like me the first time, forgot to press the # sign after entering the number. Jacob was on my old team, so I paged JB first to see if he was in surgery (he was), and then paged BR. It was pretty coincidental that I looked at my calendar last night to see what my team would be doing this morning, and so I knew only JB and BR were here today (BB and RB had the day off). And since today was pre-call day for my team, BR just told Jacob to go home and come back tomorrow morning. Lucky him =)

In the meantime, I swung by the Med Education office to fill in a request for an academic month, then talked to one of the ladies in there (Ann, I think) about what rotations were good for 4th year. She showed me a list of potential openings for ICU rotations at JPS and radiology rotations at JPS or the VA hospital nearby. I was amazed to see ICU spots almost completely filled and wondered if I should sign up for a spot too. Then Ann told me that I could also schedule a radiology/radiation oncology rotation over at the cancer center near my house. I think I may do that, it's just a matter of scheduling when to do it since radiology spots fill up fast. *sigh* I don't know what to do for my August rotation, where can I do a medicine sub-I?

Afterwards I went to the ortho doc's clinic to find that he wasn't there (probably still doing surgery and I didn't know if I was supposed to find him in the hospital or not). His PA was there, though, so I just followed him on a few patients. So far ortho doesn't seem very interesting (there probably would have been more to see at JPS), but I'll give it a shot. The schedule seems a lot better (weekends off for sure) so I'll have more time to study. This doc does some surgeries in the clinic, so I'll have to be there at 7 a.m. tomorrow. *sigh* Still, better than 6:15 a.m.