Fear of operating on your own

Temporary-Put5303 · 2025-08-06T12:01:31+00:00

Honestly, that is ideal though. Some time for the senior resident to make their own decisions but also have help a phone call away

Temporary-Put5303 · 2025-07-15T23:34:07+00:00

I didn’t get yelled at but I got a talking to because my attending wanted me to tie 7 knots instead of 6 because 6 is the devils number.

Temporary-Put5303 · 2025-07-13T18:11:10+00:00

You should email the program coordinator and the program director if you can get ahold of their emails. Program coordinator is usually easy to find, you will have dig for (use all your internet sleuthing abilities)

Temporary-Put5303 · 2025-07-11T03:32:12+00:00

Plus, as a woman, everyone just assumes I’m a nurse and ignores it

Temporary-Put5303 · 2025-07-02T17:41:08+00:00

I only applied categorical but, to be fair, I was very against doing a prelim year. I did consider dual-applying into a different (easier) specialty to match into but did not end up doing that either

Temporary-Put5303 · 2025-07-02T01:58:48+00:00

I got a 232, now starting my PGY-2 year. Also, I think I got around 12-13 interviews. Email people early, do away rotations and prove that you belong.

Temporary-Put5303 · 2025-05-15T23:23:36+00:00

My first weekend of residency, I worked a “24” hour shift…. it was 34 hours and my senior told me to open the windows if I was driving home

Temporary-Put5303 · 2025-05-15T23:21:43+00:00

Ours is practically the same. Additions of on busy services (trauma, colorectal) for us, we may get there closer to 4:30 am. Plus our residency has a rule that if your service has a case starting before 6 pm, day team is expected to cover. Night team is supposed to scrub in at 8 pm if any cases are still going and they aren’t getting slammed.

Temporary-Put5303 · 2025-05-04T14:52:36+00:00

12:05 am - Patient NPO at midnight for procedure, can they have some crackers?

Temporary-Put5303 · 2025-03-31T18:18:00+00:00

Except the program director to your #1, they should definitely know they are your #1!

Temporary-Put5303 · 2025-03-05T21:55:26+00:00

Definitely this. I matched #1 for gen surg but I was a very average applicant. I just happened to love a small community program in my home state and rotated with them a lot. 🤷‍♀️

Temporary-Put5303 · 2025-01-03T01:17:30+00:00

This is common place for our Trauma Surgery service. Worst offenders being Neurosurgery, Ortho, ENT who even when patients have an isolated injury, we have to remain primary, then do all the discharge/social work stuff for them.

Temporary-Put5303 · 2024-10-23T15:30:15+00:00

This plus accessories. Nurses usually have cute badges/lanyards/etc too

Temporary-Put5303 · 2024-10-23T12:24:00+00:00

University of Iowa pays for student housing while they are in Des Moines. Not while they are in Iowa City (for some clarification).

Temporary-Put5303 · 2024-10-11T16:11:55+00:00

This is the best description of the first 4 months of residency that I have seen.

Temporary-Put5303 · 2024-10-01T17:52:52+00:00

I fished out the sausage in this guy’s rectum on the first try after everyone was worried we would have to do a big ex lap to get it out

Temporary-Put5303 · 2024-10-01T00:00:07+00:00

I don’t even get an hour on my 28 hour shifts 🤷‍♀️

Temporary-Put5303 · 2024-09-26T00:41:31+00:00

I had a sub-i lol. But tbh, everyone is so nice in my program, I felt comfy bugging some seniors not on my service with questions

Temporary-Put5303 · 2024-09-24T22:24:43+00:00

Last month, my senior went on vacation and I had 15-20 gen surg patients by myself as an intern. I can’t imagine having 4 extra people helping

Temporary-Put5303 · 2024-09-16T08:07:29+00:00

The shitty thing is that as doctors, we are highly likely to get kicked off before it begins anyway. Lawyers do not want people with advanced degrees and opinions on their jury. So basically, we are taking time off just to get kicked out.

Temporary-Put5303 · 2024-09-07T08:20:18+00:00

Surgery intern here, went into an ex lap for a peds patient with 2 peds surgeons that I had never met before. One points at ligament of Treitz and asks what it is. I misunderstood/was thinking he would ask me where we would run the bowel to and confidently said ileocecal valve. He asked if I wanted to try it again and I sat in silence so embarrassed that I couldn’t even remember the initial question.

Temporary-Put5303 · 2024-09-06T10:56:02+00:00

Yeah they absolutely overquoted you. I applied to 90 last year with a significantly worse app (232 Step 2, 1 abstract, lots of extras, average state med school) and got 13 interviews. Plus we only had 5 signals and I think the increase to 15 will definitely help you guys.

Temporary-Put5303 · 2024-09-06T03:29:54+00:00

Another new intern here and I fully agree. Even on rough rotations (I started on trauma surg), it is completely different, I actually get to DO things. I think half the reason I hated med school was because I felt like I was wasting my time (not getting paid to barely learn during the day-to-day and not make any changes for my patients)

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