Post by Betsy on Jun 26, 2005 0:37:30 GMT -5
This was posted by KristinDavis from the Class of 2006 Forum.
I was on heme/onc, but there are some things that apply to any medicine rotation at MCG. Here's a list of some important locations:
Medicine Library - 5N; if you get off the west elevators on the 5th floor, take a left and then another left down the hallway, it's straight ahead of you. The code is written in ink on the corkboard to the right of the door. This is the location of your Intern Morning Report and meetings with the Chief Resident, Teaching Resident, and Dr. Fisher and Haburchak.
Medicine Conference Room- Room BI-5080, also 5N, located to the left of the medicine library. This is the location of student morning report on Monday mornings (and there are ususally donuts).
Radiology- all on the 2nd floor; to get to the abdominal CTs and ultrasound readings, go to the left if you get off the West elevators, make another immediate left and go all the way straight down the hall (through the door, pass the kitchen area on the right, and on into the back room). To get to the rest of the radiology, go to the right after you get off the West elevators, and turn right at the end of the hall, passing elevators on your right. Go through the double doors (you may have to swipe your id), and take a left at the end of the hall. The other CT's are on your right and the X-ray reading room is down on your left.
Hematology Micro Lab, Nuclear Medicine Imaging, and Phlebotomy- also on 2nd floor; if you get off the West elevators, take a right like you are going to the VA, and turn left in the last hallway before the VA crosswalk. The nuclear imaging lab is the 1st room and the hematology lab is the second room on your right. The place to meet for phlebotomy is down to your left.
Radiology File room- on the 1st floor, along the main hallway between the west and south elevators; here you can check out older films on your patients
ECHO lab-on 6S; if you get off of the west elevators and to the left, go down the hall and you'll see the sign for the ECHO lab to your left before you get to the 6S nurses station; the results of the last few days ECHOs are in a folder on the door of the reception room which is the room just past the waiting room on the right.
A few other notes:
-Computer access- For right now, we don't have access to PowerChart, a much easier and better system that everyone else uses to access the patients labs, notes, and radiology reports. Dr. Szerlip is working on fixing this. For the time being, there is Webview and Web2host (or just "host" or healthquest). You'll have a webview training that sets you up with a login and password. Webview does not have any current patient notes or labs, but does have all the info from previous admissions and some radiology reports. Mostly you'll use Host--an old MS-DOS based system that has labs and radiology reports as soon as they are transcribed (which often takes > 24 hrs). The first time your userid and password is your first name and first 7 characters of last name. It will ask you to change your password the first time you login. If it doesn't work, call 1-3817 to see if your login is different. Once you login, you hit "1" to really get in, and then place a "1" in front of either labs or radiology to go where you want to go. Then you'll enter your patients MRN to get the info on your patient. Once you get into a record, hit F1 to go forward a page or F2 to go back. If you want to go back an entire level (i.e. look up another patient), hit ALT-F2.
-you're also going to want to go get your own code to check the radiology dictations over the phone (you're not supposed to use someone else's). this is the fastest way to get radiology results other than actually going and looking at the labs yourself (which is really good too--but it's nice to have the actual radiologists read on it). Anyway, go to the radiology file room (directions above), and ask for Denise Davis--her office is down on the left and she'll give you your own codes and a little card with all the info you need. I suggest doing this the first day as it takes a few hours to get it working.
-be certain you always have that little yellow card with all the important phone numbers that you got at orientation--you'll need it for your own calls as well as helping your superiors out with numbers
-there are resident/intern noon conferences every day in the small auditorium; they're usally very good lectures and almost always have food--but be sure that if you come for the food, you stay for the lecture!
And lastly, here's a typical week:
Monday 8am- Student report in Medicine Conference Room
Wednesday 8am- Grand rounds in small auditorium
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday- 8:30 or 9am, intern/resident morning report (recommended--basically depends on your team)
Tuesday and Thursday- 1:30pm; Rounds with Chief Resident one day and rounds with Dr. Haburchak or Fisher the other day
Monday, Wednesday, or Friday- 1:30pm; Teaching Resident
*Some of these activities may change due to our feedback about having too many meetings throughout the day
Ok--that's all I have for now--hope that helped! Please let me know if you have questions.
I was on heme/onc, but there are some things that apply to any medicine rotation at MCG. Here's a list of some important locations:
Medicine Library - 5N; if you get off the west elevators on the 5th floor, take a left and then another left down the hallway, it's straight ahead of you. The code is written in ink on the corkboard to the right of the door. This is the location of your Intern Morning Report and meetings with the Chief Resident, Teaching Resident, and Dr. Fisher and Haburchak.
Medicine Conference Room- Room BI-5080, also 5N, located to the left of the medicine library. This is the location of student morning report on Monday mornings (and there are ususally donuts).
Radiology- all on the 2nd floor; to get to the abdominal CTs and ultrasound readings, go to the left if you get off the West elevators, make another immediate left and go all the way straight down the hall (through the door, pass the kitchen area on the right, and on into the back room). To get to the rest of the radiology, go to the right after you get off the West elevators, and turn right at the end of the hall, passing elevators on your right. Go through the double doors (you may have to swipe your id), and take a left at the end of the hall. The other CT's are on your right and the X-ray reading room is down on your left.
Hematology Micro Lab, Nuclear Medicine Imaging, and Phlebotomy- also on 2nd floor; if you get off the West elevators, take a right like you are going to the VA, and turn left in the last hallway before the VA crosswalk. The nuclear imaging lab is the 1st room and the hematology lab is the second room on your right. The place to meet for phlebotomy is down to your left.
Radiology File room- on the 1st floor, along the main hallway between the west and south elevators; here you can check out older films on your patients
ECHO lab-on 6S; if you get off of the west elevators and to the left, go down the hall and you'll see the sign for the ECHO lab to your left before you get to the 6S nurses station; the results of the last few days ECHOs are in a folder on the door of the reception room which is the room just past the waiting room on the right.
A few other notes:
-Computer access- For right now, we don't have access to PowerChart, a much easier and better system that everyone else uses to access the patients labs, notes, and radiology reports. Dr. Szerlip is working on fixing this. For the time being, there is Webview and Web2host (or just "host" or healthquest). You'll have a webview training that sets you up with a login and password. Webview does not have any current patient notes or labs, but does have all the info from previous admissions and some radiology reports. Mostly you'll use Host--an old MS-DOS based system that has labs and radiology reports as soon as they are transcribed (which often takes > 24 hrs). The first time your userid and password is your first name and first 7 characters of last name. It will ask you to change your password the first time you login. If it doesn't work, call 1-3817 to see if your login is different. Once you login, you hit "1" to really get in, and then place a "1" in front of either labs or radiology to go where you want to go. Then you'll enter your patients MRN to get the info on your patient. Once you get into a record, hit F1 to go forward a page or F2 to go back. If you want to go back an entire level (i.e. look up another patient), hit ALT-F2.
-you're also going to want to go get your own code to check the radiology dictations over the phone (you're not supposed to use someone else's). this is the fastest way to get radiology results other than actually going and looking at the labs yourself (which is really good too--but it's nice to have the actual radiologists read on it). Anyway, go to the radiology file room (directions above), and ask for Denise Davis--her office is down on the left and she'll give you your own codes and a little card with all the info you need. I suggest doing this the first day as it takes a few hours to get it working.
-be certain you always have that little yellow card with all the important phone numbers that you got at orientation--you'll need it for your own calls as well as helping your superiors out with numbers
-there are resident/intern noon conferences every day in the small auditorium; they're usally very good lectures and almost always have food--but be sure that if you come for the food, you stay for the lecture!
And lastly, here's a typical week:
Monday 8am- Student report in Medicine Conference Room
Wednesday 8am- Grand rounds in small auditorium
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday- 8:30 or 9am, intern/resident morning report (recommended--basically depends on your team)
Tuesday and Thursday- 1:30pm; Rounds with Chief Resident one day and rounds with Dr. Haburchak or Fisher the other day
Monday, Wednesday, or Friday- 1:30pm; Teaching Resident
*Some of these activities may change due to our feedback about having too many meetings throughout the day
Ok--that's all I have for now--hope that helped! Please let me know if you have questions.