Post by chase on Mar 26, 2008 18:00:45 GMT -5
Ambulatory at MCG varies a lot in what you can do.
You usually do a half day from 8-12 and 1-5 in different
things. They try to get you half "general medicine"
and half "specialty adult medicine." Electives.
You are NOT allowed to miss more than two days/4
half-days without making them up. If there's a clinic
that doesn't have patients that day or is canceled,
technically you're supposed go to another clinic but
most people just write canceled on their daily eval
form *yes, they have annoying forms* and it's fine.
The department has given bad grades to people or
refused to release grades many times when people
miss to many days. There's no weekends or call so
they say no exceptions for missing those days.
At MCG you get one half day off a week.
Things I did:
Rheumatology: Great attendings who are chill. See
lots of interesting things. Give your eval to one of
the male attendings, as the female one always gives
mets expections even though she compliments you.
Uptown VA: Very boring. You do walk in clinic and
this is often all day. But you get to go home at 3:15.
Some days you just sit on the computer all day and
others you just see 2-3 patients.
GI: Not everyone's favorite if you're working with
Schade. He pimps a lot and not everyone gets along
with him but the three other attendings are great.
Usually don't start until 1:30 in afternoon.
Endo: good attendings and pertinent sights. Mulloy's
bone clinic is real busy but cool. Good evals.
ID: Starts at 9pm if you're doing Dr. Fisher's day.
Get a chance to see how good of a clinician he is
even if you don't agree with some of his principles.
Will teacher you a ton and learn P/E well. Good evals.
Geriatrics: Awesome faculty. Good teaching. Relaxed.
Great evals but sometimes very quick with patients
because of next to no pay/time from medicaid.
Things I heard about but didn't do:
H/O: Good.
Acute Care: Boring but tolerable.
Pre-Op: Lots of pimping.
Pulm: Lots of canceled clincs.
There are others but that should suffice. The final test
is annoying and takes a long time and the articles they
give don't always have most of the answers.
You usually do a half day from 8-12 and 1-5 in different
things. They try to get you half "general medicine"
and half "specialty adult medicine." Electives.
You are NOT allowed to miss more than two days/4
half-days without making them up. If there's a clinic
that doesn't have patients that day or is canceled,
technically you're supposed go to another clinic but
most people just write canceled on their daily eval
form *yes, they have annoying forms* and it's fine.
The department has given bad grades to people or
refused to release grades many times when people
miss to many days. There's no weekends or call so
they say no exceptions for missing those days.
At MCG you get one half day off a week.
Things I did:
Rheumatology: Great attendings who are chill. See
lots of interesting things. Give your eval to one of
the male attendings, as the female one always gives
mets expections even though she compliments you.
Uptown VA: Very boring. You do walk in clinic and
this is often all day. But you get to go home at 3:15.
Some days you just sit on the computer all day and
others you just see 2-3 patients.
GI: Not everyone's favorite if you're working with
Schade. He pimps a lot and not everyone gets along
with him but the three other attendings are great.
Usually don't start until 1:30 in afternoon.
Endo: good attendings and pertinent sights. Mulloy's
bone clinic is real busy but cool. Good evals.
ID: Starts at 9pm if you're doing Dr. Fisher's day.
Get a chance to see how good of a clinician he is
even if you don't agree with some of his principles.
Will teacher you a ton and learn P/E well. Good evals.
Geriatrics: Awesome faculty. Good teaching. Relaxed.
Great evals but sometimes very quick with patients
because of next to no pay/time from medicaid.
Things I heard about but didn't do:
H/O: Good.
Acute Care: Boring but tolerable.
Pre-Op: Lots of pimping.
Pulm: Lots of canceled clincs.
There are others but that should suffice. The final test
is annoying and takes a long time and the articles they
give don't always have most of the answers.