Post by Betsy on Sept 19, 2005 20:42:31 GMT -5
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This rotation was awesome! You work a lot, but you also get to see a ton! Some of the more interesting cases I have seen was Hodgkin’s lymphoma, recurrent craniopharyngioma, Joubert’s syndrome (cerebellar atresia), Kulgerberg-Welander syndrome (spinal muscle atrophy), pneumomediastinum, IgA deficiency, amniotic band syndrome, paraplegia, infected branchial cleft cyst, and brown recluse bite. So who says general outpatient pediatrics is boring!
Housing: I did not stay at the housing, since I am from Gainesville. Stayed with the parents. Yay! (please note extreme sarcasm). I have heard that there is 2 bedrooms in the apartment, and depending on the number of students in Gainesville, you may have to share a room.
Attendings: You work with Dr. Susan Traxler and Dr. Michael Hosford. Both are excellent physicians, but they are like night and day. Dr. Traxler just finished her residency at MCG, and she is an EXCELLENT teacher. She is very involved in everything that you are doing, including stuff for the clerkship like the clinical cases. She always ask you to look up more information on patients, practice calculating dosages, etc. And trust me, MOST of the stuff she got me to research on and practice with showed up on the midterm and shelf exam. She knows her stuff and is very conservative with antibiotics. Dr. Hosford is old school (he was my pediatrician since I was born, so he has been in practice for a great while). You will learn to read a CBC with him, because Dr. Hosford gets them all the time. He is very liberal with antibiotic usage. He is a great guy, and a great doctor. You can learn a lot by his bedside manner.
Schedule: Hours are usually 8am-6:30pm during the week. You work with the doctor on call. They rotate call every other day, so one day is with Dr. Traxler and the next with Dr. Hosford. You must work 3 out of the 5 Saturdays, where you get to see a lot of sick visits, as Saturdays are mostly walk-ins. Saturdays are half days, but I usually stayed until 1-2pm. I also got every Wednesday afternoon off, to work on the CLIPP cases at home. So, this was nice. I was supposed to be on call once per week, but I never got called in.
Typical day: Do rounds at the hospital (Northeast Georgia Medical Center, located 1mile from office) starting usually around 8am. Mostly healthy newborns. I only got to see 2 pediatric inpatients during the whole time. I also only got to see 2 newborns that were in the NICU. You usually finish rounding at the hospital at 8:30-8:45 and head over to the office. Clinic hours are 9am-5:30pm. See about 20-30 patients/day. I would say about 1/3 was well-check ups, and I did my rotation in late fall. Winter time is usually 95% sick visits. You do evening rounds at the hospital from 5:30-6pm. Sometimes you don’t finish until 6:30pm. The latest I stayed was 7:30 because we had 7 newborns.
Lunch: Only got 2 free lunches from pharmaceutical reps. Plan to eat lunch with the office ladies. We went out for lunch every day that I was there. This is the only break of the day, so its nice to enjoy yourself. The nurses and office staff are great, so its always a good time.
Overall: EXCELLENT ROTATION! Highly recommend to anyone! Even if you aren’t from the area, it’s a great rotation and a great break from Augusta. Its only 45 minutes north of Atlanta, and about 20 min to the Mall of Georgia. For any other questions, please feel free to email me at bhughesmd@students.mcg.edu
This rotation was awesome! You work a lot, but you also get to see a ton! Some of the more interesting cases I have seen was Hodgkin’s lymphoma, recurrent craniopharyngioma, Joubert’s syndrome (cerebellar atresia), Kulgerberg-Welander syndrome (spinal muscle atrophy), pneumomediastinum, IgA deficiency, amniotic band syndrome, paraplegia, infected branchial cleft cyst, and brown recluse bite. So who says general outpatient pediatrics is boring!
Housing: I did not stay at the housing, since I am from Gainesville. Stayed with the parents. Yay! (please note extreme sarcasm). I have heard that there is 2 bedrooms in the apartment, and depending on the number of students in Gainesville, you may have to share a room.
Attendings: You work with Dr. Susan Traxler and Dr. Michael Hosford. Both are excellent physicians, but they are like night and day. Dr. Traxler just finished her residency at MCG, and she is an EXCELLENT teacher. She is very involved in everything that you are doing, including stuff for the clerkship like the clinical cases. She always ask you to look up more information on patients, practice calculating dosages, etc. And trust me, MOST of the stuff she got me to research on and practice with showed up on the midterm and shelf exam. She knows her stuff and is very conservative with antibiotics. Dr. Hosford is old school (he was my pediatrician since I was born, so he has been in practice for a great while). You will learn to read a CBC with him, because Dr. Hosford gets them all the time. He is very liberal with antibiotic usage. He is a great guy, and a great doctor. You can learn a lot by his bedside manner.
Schedule: Hours are usually 8am-6:30pm during the week. You work with the doctor on call. They rotate call every other day, so one day is with Dr. Traxler and the next with Dr. Hosford. You must work 3 out of the 5 Saturdays, where you get to see a lot of sick visits, as Saturdays are mostly walk-ins. Saturdays are half days, but I usually stayed until 1-2pm. I also got every Wednesday afternoon off, to work on the CLIPP cases at home. So, this was nice. I was supposed to be on call once per week, but I never got called in.
Typical day: Do rounds at the hospital (Northeast Georgia Medical Center, located 1mile from office) starting usually around 8am. Mostly healthy newborns. I only got to see 2 pediatric inpatients during the whole time. I also only got to see 2 newborns that were in the NICU. You usually finish rounding at the hospital at 8:30-8:45 and head over to the office. Clinic hours are 9am-5:30pm. See about 20-30 patients/day. I would say about 1/3 was well-check ups, and I did my rotation in late fall. Winter time is usually 95% sick visits. You do evening rounds at the hospital from 5:30-6pm. Sometimes you don’t finish until 6:30pm. The latest I stayed was 7:30 because we had 7 newborns.
Lunch: Only got 2 free lunches from pharmaceutical reps. Plan to eat lunch with the office ladies. We went out for lunch every day that I was there. This is the only break of the day, so its nice to enjoy yourself. The nurses and office staff are great, so its always a good time.
Overall: EXCELLENT ROTATION! Highly recommend to anyone! Even if you aren’t from the area, it’s a great rotation and a great break from Augusta. Its only 45 minutes north of Atlanta, and about 20 min to the Mall of Georgia. For any other questions, please feel free to email me at bhughesmd@students.mcg.edu