I received an "Outstanding" rating for my General Surgery rotation!

[Aristus]

Surprised the hell out of me. I had been struggling so hard to keep up with all those residents in their mid-twenties (I'm 41). I thought I was failing miserably; my misery was compounded by having to get up at 3:45 every morning to make it to the hospital for rounds at 5. :hangover:

My preceptor must have noticed how hard I was trying, because he wrote "works hard and highly motivated" on my evaluation sheet. Could have knocked me over with a feather.

Anyway, that's done, thank God. I spoke with my new preceptor today for my Orthopedic rotation starting on Monday. Work starts at 9:30 in the morning. Much better! :-)

[sarge43]

1. Congratulations.

:thumbsup:

0345hrs?! Jeebus, that's obscene.

[Aristus]

3. Yeah, no kidding.

The residents actually had to work much harder, to be honest. But then, they were in their twenties and drawing a paycheck.

Come to think of it, I was actually paying to go through all of that! :dunce:

But it's worth it... B-)

[Demoiselle]

2. Wow, Aristus. Congratulations.

I like the idea of a sensible 41 year old grownup learning medicine! I'm sure you bring an extra measure of life experience to it that more than cancels out your age difference.

[Aristus]

4. I'll give the residents their props for being highly intelligent and very knowledgeable.

But having years of patient care experience as a Medical Assistant, I was able to hold my own in the area of patient relations.

[Demoiselle]

5. Right. I mean no disrepect to them. Still...your experience is very valuable. Cheers!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear Aristus!

Good for you!

This is outstanding news, and not surprising at all!

And I must agree...9:30 AM is a much more civilized hour!

Congrats, sweetie!

Here's to continued successes...

:hug:

[Aristus]

8. Thanks, CalPeg!

:hug:

And let's hear it for nurses while we're at it, hey? :thumbsup: :-)

[Haole Girl]

7. Yay!

Congratulations!

:toast:

[Aristus]

9. Thanks, HG.

:toast::beer: :9

Boy, I could sure use a celebratory drink right now. I think there's a 1/4 of a bottle of wine left downstairs...

Salud!

[Haole Girl]

10. I'm going to make something with chocolate liqueur

Not quite so fancy, but similar to this:



Salud!

[Aristus]

12. Looks terrific!

:9

[Haole Girl]

14. I decided to have a chocolate martini instead

Less trouble...just as good! :9

[Aristus]

18. A chocolatini is always nice...

I'm guessing. I've never actually had one. Sounds good, though... B-)

[applegrove]

11. That is great!

[Ikonoklast]

13. They were just taking pity on the 'old' guy.

Nah, just kidding, that's great news, keep up the good work!



And get some sleep, fer cryin' out loud.

[Aristus]

16. DID! Naps haven't felt this good since I was a kid!

:-)

[SimonPhoenix]

15. Awesome!

But you should know know the correct name for that rotation (and the career field, for that matter) is general slavery. :P

You're an M3 I assume, right? My apologies if I misunderstood the post but it sounds like you're doing your third-year rotations.

What specialty do you think you want to go into? What school do you go to?

[Aristus]

17. Actually, I'm a Physician Assistant Student. I'm in my second ( that is: Clinical) year

of my program. A series of four-week clerkships and a four-month preceptorship. I suppose I shouldn't complain about four weeks when the residents are doing an arduous three to four year hitch. But it was rough-going there for a while. And I'm a grandfather!... B-)

Welcome to DU, by the way! :hi:

[Luciferous]

19. Congratulations!

[many a good man]

20. Great job, Sawbones!

Keep up the good work!

[Aristus]

21. Will do.

Speaking of sawbones, my Orthopedic rotation is up next starting on Monday. I'll be sawing plenty of bones, all right...