Passed The ABA Basic Exam!
Just got my ABA BasicExam results – I passed! In true board exam fashion, here is the anticlimactic posting: I’ll take the ABA Advanced Exam right after graduating from residency. Hopefully it also goes well! :-)
Category: Residency
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The Weekend Medical ICU Resident
This weekend, I ran most of the medical ICU and had flashbacks to ICU rotations from my intern year. It’s a field I was considering from the get-go, but this weekend reinvigorated my interest in pursuing a critical care fellowship.
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Anesthesiologists Are Old Or Bold – Never Both
My ICU attending, a more experienced physician who has seen the practice of critical care evolve over decades, left me with an interesting thought yesterday. We discussed a potentially difficult airway and the need to be proactive rather than reactive, especially in the critically ill population.
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First Day Of CA-2 Year
I’m kicking off my third year of residency (“CA-2” in anesthesia world) working at MD Anderson Cancer Center, one of the top two cancer institutes in the country! As a medical student at Baylor Med, we had limited opportunities to work there; however, as a resident, we do an ICU…
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First Year Of Anesthesiology Residency (CA-1) In Retrospect
Today marks the end of my first year of clinical anesthesia (CA-1) and wanted to reflect on things I learned. While my intern year was filled with lessons inherent to becoming a new physician, my CA-1 year was very different! Anesthesiology has an incredibly steep learning curve – advanced physiology and pharmacology, new…
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Finished With Obstetric Anesthesiology As A CA-1
Tomorrow is my last day of obstetric anesthesiology and also my last day as a second year anesthesiology resident (CA-1). Over the last two months, I’ve done a ton of epidurals, spinals, and combined spinal-epidural anesthetics to help provide labor analgesia and surgical anesthesia for my patients. There’s nothing more gratifying than…
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Ridicule Among Residents
Having completed nearly two years of residency, it’s clear that residents from different fields who are constantly relying on each other will often find ways to ridicule each other as well. This is just the nature of medicine. We’re all busy. We’re all intelligent. We’re trying to manage patients, orders,…
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2015 ABA Basic Exam
Now that the American Board of Anesthesiology’s Basic Exam is over for CA-1s, I wanted to write about my experiences from the exam on Friday, June 12th.
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Farewell Bluehost – Hello SiteGround
I’ve been a Bluehost customer for roughly eight years, but after growing issues with web performance and uptime, I reluctantly decided it was time for a change. After doing some online research, I decided to go with SiteGround’s startup shared hosting plan locked in at $3.95 for 3 years (about half…
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Day Before The ABA Basic Board Exam
Since last year, the anesthesiology written boards have been split into a basic exam taken between the 2nd and 3rd years of residency and an advanced exam taken after right after graduating from residency. My class will be the second group to cough up the $775 for another exam. We’re given…