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Post by Betsy on Jun 26, 2005 0:47:49 GMT -5
This was posted by tmyeni from the Class of 2006 Forum.
Pediatric Neurology was a lot of fun!! Kids are cute (even the ones that try to bite you). If you are interested in strange and interesting cases, you will love it. Arthrygryposis, cornellia de lange, tacrolimus induced posterior leukoencephalopathy...you will see it all folks!
Hours are long..ish. Hardly any down time (unlike the neurosurgery folks). We arrive around 6am, write notes on our patients, lecture at 7:30am, round with attending at 8:30, clinic until 5pm, check on in-patients, round with attending until 6:30..ish. The night before the test we got out at 6pm, be warned!
About the test:
Blueprints, Oklahoma notes and pre-test (twice) were helpful for the test (I hope).
Work quickly! Time runs out fast.
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Post by Brad on Jul 7, 2006 0:13:01 GMT -5
Like most rotations, the experience can differ. I actually had a pretty light rotation with good hours. The inpatient service was very light. I mean seizures is the predominant reason among few to admit a kid to neuro, and most kids really don't need to be admitted for seizures. I think we had maybe 5 kids the whole 2 weeks and never more than 2 at a time. Dr. Carroll was my attending and afternoon rounds consisted of "is everyone ok" "yes" "ok see you tomorrow." So I was almost always out by 4:30 or 5:00 and did not come in on the weekend. I could see how the other attendings might be a little more tough though.
The majority of your time is spent in clinic. This was surprisingly fun for my very first rotation of 3rd year. The kids are fun and the parents are mostly pretty easy to deal with. 75% of the kids will have seizure disorders, but you do see a lot of other cool stuff as the previous poster mentioned.
Brad
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Post by lindachambers on Aug 4, 2007 14:24:32 GMT -5
I loved Peds neuro. The kids are a blast and Dr. Carroll is incredibly chill, Dr. Park is more academic and Dr. Sekul is somewhere in the middle. But theyre all fabulous. Dr. Park is the seizure guy so read up on that before hanging out with him, Dr. Sekul does more of the muscle disorders and Dr. Carroll does a bit of everything. I had a light rotation like brad sometimes even leaving at 2-3pm (granted I was in July and the attendings all took vacation at some point...) I did come in on the weekends but only for an hour or two each day so it wasnt bad. I never had any 7:30 lectures at all and never met up with my residents earlier than 8:30 when they finished morning report.
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Post by Peggy Sue on Aug 12, 2007 20:16:10 GMT -5
I had a lot of fun for the 2 weeks of peds. I ended up doing a 30 min presentation at the end of mine on an interesting case and the disease, but it was a pleasant round-table atmosphere. Lots of clinic time. Some patients from PICU and the 4th floor. It took a couple of days before my ID card gave me access, but it wasn't hard to get in when I needed to. Great people to work with, and they really gave good advice.
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Post by hirons on Aug 15, 2007 16:23:28 GMT -5
I think the experince depends on the residents and attending for the month (they rotate on the 1st of the month). Not much downtime. When there were inpatients, we came in to pre-round and write SOAP notes on consults/inpatients before clinic (usually starts at 8am), but usually not before 7am. Clinic until noonish, then sometimes a lunch lecture. Often there is free lunch by either a drug rep or a conference, but not always, so I'd always have a granola bar with me in case. Clinic begins again at 1-4pm. Then rounds. Usually we went home 6-ish, but not always. No call. Weekends are up to your residents - we never went in, but they said they would call if there was an admission. Friday mornings, the residents hold clinic and students don't see patients. We helped with slides/presented at the conference on Friday noon (fairly informal; group of ~20ppl). Although interesting - you'll see rare diseases you thought you'd only read about - not much peds neuro is on the shelf.
Heads up- in general, peds don't wear white coats. Some claim it scares the kids. I'd ask, but I didn't wear mine after the first day. Also, the "space needle" looking refelx hammer is superior to the "tamahawk" kind. You'll have more luck getting reflexes with it. They are $12 in the student bookstore. Lastly, always calculate meds in mg/kg/day.
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Post by wowposter on Nov 5, 2008 21:20:50 GMT -5
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