First Impressions

I begin my second week of surgery and still can't access the OR schedule. Meaning I have no idea what time and where i'm supposed to be. Fabulous. Apparently, not knowing anything including what you're supposed to do and go is the theme of M3 year.

My first week of M3 year was insane. Between school of medicine orientation and surgery department orientation, I was exhausted. Then my first full day of surgery ended up being a full day of lectures. My very first time in the OR got me doing sutures which the resident realized I wasn't lying when I said "I suck at this". My first week in the OR also made me realize that I'm going to have to get used to standing for 10 hours and pain from my lower back down. I'm going to be popping a lot of advil in the near future and try to suck it up best I can. I know my other partners in crime HemeOnc Doc and BBaller are in the same boat.

My first week of surgery has taught me this: I'm not sure it's for me. Granted, I have another 11 weeks before I'll make up my mind. But it's cut, sew, cut, curse, sew, pimp student. Although I've met some great surgeons who really do great work, I do find it very mechanical in nature. I've always considered myself more cerebral, but I'm still willing to give it a shot. Maybe I just don't find plastics a perfect fit for me. Maybe I'll like general surgery better. who knows. It is better than sitting in a classroom ever will be.

I'm working on a cleft lip repair presentation for the plastics rotation. Apparently everyone does it and I'm halfway done. I just need to find out how they do the surgery. I'll probably look it up tomorrow when I get there at 6 am to make sure I'm not late for the first surgery.

Also, my first EBM assignment (read: waste of my time) of this year ended up with me locking myself out of it because my computer decided that I was pointing in some direction of some link and then decided to click on it without me telling it to. So that ended up with an email to the scary librarian to reset my quiz. Ugh. I hate how they make us take tests so they know that we know how to use a database. Blah.

Ok, I think i'm going to work on some surgery pretest questions and then maybe go to bed early. It's been great to have a weekend off to recover from my first week. This year is going to be a very very very long one.