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Post by justin on Jul 30, 2007 10:46:25 GMT -5
I did this subspecialty 7/2-/13.
Plastic Surgery is a good rotation if you want some OR time. You don't do a lot of patient management, but you will probably get to scrub a lot, suture, etc.
The day starts between 6 and 7am and ends usually around 4pm. You will have some down time throughout the day, but not a lot. Plastics tends to have a lot of small/quick surgeries, so your time 'off' will probably be while the OR is turned over for the next patient. In clinic you get some time you write notes and present to the attending. Sometimes you will get to do some clinic procedures like suture removal or draining things. Weekend duty included rounding, that's about it. Pre-rounding may not be done, the residents I was with liked for all of us to just round together and they wrote the notes.
They do have a bit of conference time. The residents are nice and the clinic nurses are very patient. The patients themselves are on 7W, with consults in almost every patient wing. Most post-op patients either go to PACU or straight back up to 8.
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Post by Kim on Oct 23, 2009 18:57:54 GMT -5
I had Plastic Surgery as my first SS (I did medicine, then core, then ss). I loved it!!!!! It was my favorite 2 weeks of 3rd year so far (done w/ medicine and surgery). I was hoping the days would be shorter b/c it's a subspecialty, but I got to the hospital at 5:30 and didn't leave until anywhere b/w 5 and 8pm (usually at 5 after lecture unless a surgery was still going). There was very little downtime.
I'd get there at 5:30 to get the vitals on all the patients for the Intern. We'd round at 6. Then we'd either go to conference or the OR (sometimes clinic).
This rotation was great b/c of all the OR time. There are lots of attendings who are all operating at the same time and only a few residents so they REALLY want students in the surgeries to help them. They also let students do a good bit during the surgeries (particularly in the 2nd week of the rotation). I got to do a lot of suturing, some liposuctioning, and unsupervised mole removal (the attending was on the other side of the patient not even looking - it was my 2nd time ever holding a scalpel!!!). I definitely learned all kinds of different sutures.
Clinic wasn't bad b/c there was often suture removal and at least once a day there was some kind of procedure in clinic - generally simple things like mole removals, but there were some mini-facelifts!
The residents and interns were all great and really appreciated our help. They were also good about making sure that whichever student went to clinic one day went to the OR the next day.
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Post by abner3 on Jan 3, 2013 14:01:05 GMT -5
Hello the Plastic surgery is a medical specialty concerned with the correction or restoration of function. Though cosmetic or aesthetic surgery treatment is the best-known kind of plastic surgery treatment, most plastic surgery is not cosmetic.Thanks a lot!!
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