Sometimes I’m asked by medical students and anesthesiology residents what a typical work schedule looks like for me as a dual-trained adult cardiac anesthesiologist and CVICU intensivist working in academic medicine. Although my schedule has changed with growing administrative and leadership responsibilities, I feel like it’s a great balance between…
As cardiothoracic anesthesia fellows, I’ll do two 1-month blocks of dedicated thoracic anesthesiology, and my first block begins tomorrow! These two months are often the hardest months of this fellowship since we’re on call 24/7 for lung transplants every single day except the second and fourth weekends.
I started my adult cardiothoracic anesthesiology fellowship officially on July 10, 2018. Unlike my critical care fellowship where rotations were broken down into two week blocks, this fellowship varies tremendously as shown below. We do two dedicated months of thoracic anesthesiology and are technically on-call 24/7 except every other weekend…
My fellowship is divided into two week blocks throughout the year. We rotate alongside fellows/residents from other departments and almost always in a multidisciplinary setting consisting of nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, nutritionists, physical/occupational therapists, etc. I started my fellowship about a week later, so I could move from Houston. Here…
With only three days left before graduation, I received my schedule for intern (PGY1) year. Interns start their rotations on the 1st of every month and leave on the last day of that month.
The confines of a lecture hall are now a thing of the past. You are now on clinical rotations, which means you are no longer permitted to skip lectures in favor of streaming the recordings. You have to be at rounds. You have to see your patients everyday. You have…
It’s about 5:10 pm, and I’m sitting in a vacant lecture hall writing this post. I woke up at 5am and had orientation from 7:30am to 3:45pm. Come to find out, I start this rotation on labor and delivery (L&D) nights and will be here till 5am tomorrow morning only…
Yesterday was my last day of preclinicals. Hmmm, let me say that again. My LAST day of preclinicals. Ever. It sure has been an incredible eighteen months since I embarked on this journey! I’ll be writing a post at the end of this week (after exams) summarizing my last six…
I’ve had several readers inquire about what a normal first year medical student’s schedule looks like. Though this varies from institution to institution, here’s the breakdown of my first block (six weeks) at Baylor Med. Monday Lecture 1: 8:00 AM – 8:50 (20 minute break) Lecture 2: 9:10 to 10:00…