I start my Surgery rotation tomorrow and I am so ridiculously anxious! I have seriously been dreading this rotation since the beginning of my rotation year. We don’t gain hands-on surgical experience from this rotation. Instead, we’re basically the surgeons’ bitch. Plus, most of them have giant egos and have been downright mean to students for no good reason. We’re also on call a lot and do tons of paperwork.
If it wasn’t mandatory, I would not choose to put myself through this rotation.I’d much rather do another Internal Medicine because at least I get doctoring experience with that.
I don’t know if it will be better or worse because of the holidays. Fewer appointment days and fewer scheduled surgeries may be a good thing, but I also think there are fewer students on this rotation block because of that. We get Christmas Eve, Christmas, and New Year’s Day “off” in that we don’t have scheduled things, but we’re still on call those days and on weekends for emergency surgeries and have to come in if we have hospitalized patients to do treatments or discharge them. On the plus side, there’s a cap on the maximum number of patients we can have in hospital at a time, but it’s four and I have a hard enough time if I only have 2 in the ICU. Blargh.
I know it doesn’t help to be this anxious but I can’t help it or make it stop so the anxiety continues.
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