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Post by mcg2007 on Sept 23, 2005 17:02:20 GMT -5
This was actually a good rotation contrary to what I had heard. Typical day starts at 8 am with morning report until 9am. Then you work in the clinic till 12 or 12:30. then you have lumch till 1 and it is often provided by the site. On mondays and fridays, you are required to go to lunch confrences but again you have free lunch. Then you go back to clinic till about 5 pm except on thursdays b/c you have lecture at 1 till about 3:30 and then you go home. You have call one night each week and one of these nights will be a weekend call. You are in house for calls. The only bad thing about call is you don't get to leave the next day at noon. You must stay a full day. However, you usually get plenty of sleep when you are there. Other requirements include a house call that you can do at your leisure, a mid term and final essay exam done at site, and working the homeless clinic one Monday after clinic for 2 hours. The exams are "graded" by your attending and they influence your overall grade. You are required to dictate most of the patients you see and these dictations will also be evaluated. You also are required to record all the pts you see. You must see at least 120 but you will definately exceed this number. The people there are really nice for the most part. They are VERY helpful and want you to learn. You are pimped but not in a bad way. Finally the shelf at the end is kind of tough especially if this is one of your first rotations. However, I wouldnt suggest buying any study guides b/c the site gives you plenty and there arent any real good ones.
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Post by MCG on Jul 7, 2006 13:18:25 GMT -5
This was a good rotation. The dictation that you do to do your notes is actually really good practice -- I feel like I can fire off a good, organized presentation off the top of my head now. Dr. Forney, Dr. Nixon, Dr. Schwartz, Dr. Manmen, etc are all really cool -- Dr Coffin is awesome. The rotation is very well organized. Unlike some other rotations at MCG where you get the feeling that as a student, your mere presence is annoying the crap out of the faculty and staff as you are adding to their workload, the family med people actually seem like they don't mind you being there, and actually talk to you as one human being would normally address another.
The call kind of wears you out as you don't know any of the patients on inpatient, and you're not really busy admitting people for the most part (with an exception - I went like 4 call nights without doing an admisison or anything really, then had one where the intern and myself admitted like 5 in a row from the ER starting right at 5 pm). Basically, you go to school that day, do a full day of clinic with a conference in between morning and afternoon, start call at 5 pm, do a bunch of admissions or sit around and not do anything, sleep in the family medicine room, wake up and try to clean yourself up, change into the extra set of clothes you brought, then go do another whole day of clinic looking like crap. I know I know, good practice for the coming years, but if you aren't admitting someone you're basically not doing anything as you don't know the patients on the floor.
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Post by gkalv on Nov 18, 2007 0:16:55 GMT -5
i did family after peds and ob/gyn, which i think helped a lot. this rotation is almost all clinic patients, so study up on dm, htn, hyperlipid, etc. also, the shelf can be tough b/c there is a lot of variety. don't wait until the last minute to do your home visit.
there are department exams which are somehow counted toward your subjective grade. the entire test will be stuff like dm for one version, peds acute otitis media/pharyngitis for another, low back pain, etc, etc. this could be a tough rotation to do first b/c you'll be busy and it's all outpatient so you stay busy all day
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