Post by tracylee2009 on Sept 11, 2008 11:10:11 GMT -5
This rotation is awesome! One of my favorite rotations definitely.
CONTACT: Dr. Rick Lipman (mblipman@hotmail.com) - Director of Atlanta VA ER.
REGISTRATION: I set this rotation up myself so it's under EMED 5012 and requires a green sheet, confirmation letter, and syllabus.
SCHEDULE: AM lecture at 8-9am except Tuesdays where you have "Hardison rounds" - old school internal med doc that takes you to see a pt and does some teaching. Shift ends 5-6pm. No weekends - M-F.
EXPERIENCE: You work with Emory internal medicine residents doing their ER rotation. Residents were cool and actually took the time to teach you. All the ER docs there are ER or family med or moonlighters and were all super nice. Lots of flexibility in what you want to do. They try to give you interesting pt's. Nurses are nice and will teach you how to draw blood or whatever you want. Basically, you have a lot of flexibility depending on what you want to learn.
So basically you go see the pt, present to resident and discuss, then present to attending. Then follow pt through their stay and keep tabs on all the tests/procedures to make sure they get done. Then you write a note in the CPRS system. You usually carry 3-4 pt's simultaneously.
I got to start a lot of IV's, I&D's, suture lacerations. Pt population is restricted (old guys) and you don't see a lot of critical pt's.
PERKS: They feed you lunch everyday from the internal medicine department during lecture 12-1pm. Sometimes you don't get to stay for lecture if it's busy in the ER
CONTACT: Dr. Rick Lipman (mblipman@hotmail.com) - Director of Atlanta VA ER.
REGISTRATION: I set this rotation up myself so it's under EMED 5012 and requires a green sheet, confirmation letter, and syllabus.
SCHEDULE: AM lecture at 8-9am except Tuesdays where you have "Hardison rounds" - old school internal med doc that takes you to see a pt and does some teaching. Shift ends 5-6pm. No weekends - M-F.
EXPERIENCE: You work with Emory internal medicine residents doing their ER rotation. Residents were cool and actually took the time to teach you. All the ER docs there are ER or family med or moonlighters and were all super nice. Lots of flexibility in what you want to do. They try to give you interesting pt's. Nurses are nice and will teach you how to draw blood or whatever you want. Basically, you have a lot of flexibility depending on what you want to learn.
So basically you go see the pt, present to resident and discuss, then present to attending. Then follow pt through their stay and keep tabs on all the tests/procedures to make sure they get done. Then you write a note in the CPRS system. You usually carry 3-4 pt's simultaneously.
I got to start a lot of IV's, I&D's, suture lacerations. Pt population is restricted (old guys) and you don't see a lot of critical pt's.
PERKS: They feed you lunch everyday from the internal medicine department during lecture 12-1pm. Sometimes you don't get to stay for lecture if it's busy in the ER