Hello guys! I'm on my way to the 3rd year of medical school and, as so, I'm gonna start going to the hospital everyday with a doctor teaching me (only surgery and internal medicine for this year). Any advice to adapt quickly to this new environment? Thanks in advance :)
Agree with Janette, but listen, observe body language, study and when in doubt ask questions. If it doesn't feel right don't do keep your integrity always. Good luck
Listen to any nurse (the doctors as well of course 😉), they are usually way more experienced than you arenas they’re the ones who are around the patient 24/7, not you, from five minutes of rounds in the morning to the afternoon you might not recognise a change in his skin colour, the nurse probably does. Try to get as much clinical experience. You might know what a subcutaneous emphysema or a bronchial spasm is, but you don’t really know what it feels or sounds like. You maybe theoretically know how the nearing death can change someone’s face, but it’s a whole other thing when you first see it. Get as much experience in patient interaction (look at how nurses do it, I don’t want to say always, but they’re often better with patients 😄). Always ask questions, even though you might get a snappy answer, there are no stupid questions, just stupid answers. And if there should at anytime be something that bothers you, something like a patient dying or a sick child, something you take home with you (you can take things home from the hospital at the end of the day - everyone does it - but it shouldn’t change your life in an unhealthy way) the be brave and talk to someone, everyone has been at that exact same spot at some time and you’re still just a human being 💞
