correction
4 June 2009
I said in the last post that I felt I hadn’t really learned a lot on ICU, but that isn’t really entirely true. I haven’t necessarily learned a lot from the medicine aspect, but some lessons I’ll take away are invaluable, particularly in that they’ll be valuable to me for the rest of the year: Competance and confidence in taking complete histories and talking to owners, taking and developing radiographs, running stat lab work, navigating the beauracracy of the hospital.
So even if this rotation hasn’t necessarily helped prepare me for boards, I think it has been the best possible preparation for the rest of my senior year.