Another End

I am finished with my OB rotation...W-O-W it went fast! The most frustrating/annoying/difficult thing about 3rd year is that just as soon as you start to feel comfortable on a rotation (you know where everything is, you get along with your residents, the attendings remember your name, you know what is expected of you and can stop worrying about doing something wrong and start actually thinking critically about the patients and their problems) you switch to a new one. And the cycle starts all over again. Naturally, that is what has just happened with OB.

I had a hard time on this rotation in the beginning, but it had gotten much better by the end. I still didn't feel as comfortable on the rotation and with the patients and the diagnoses that I was seeing as I had on some other rotations, but I was getting the hang of it. I am sad to leave this rotation as there were things about it I had come to really like. I actually liked the clinic part of this rotation; there were a couple of patients that I saw in the clinic multiple times and that was pretty cool.

I did not get my wish of doing things in the OR this past week...we had a really huge team (an attending, an intern, a 3rd year and a 4th year resident) and since they all take preference over me for doing procedures I didn't get to do ANYTHING. I literally only scrubbed in for 1 case all week. The others were all laparoscopic or robotic cases, and so there is really only room for 2 people to be scrubbed in and around the patient. It was disappointing. It was also a little annoying to be there from 5:30am-10pm some days where I literally did not do a single thing. On the other hand, the attending was SO fun to be in the OR with, and was really apologetic about me not getting to do anything, so I guess I'm not that upset.

Three day weekend (YAY!!) and then surgery on Tuesday. I didn't get a whole lot of practice on OB for my surgery tasks, but hopefully I'm ready!