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Survival Guide for Medical Rotations: Myths, Mantras, and Materials

This comprehensive guide provides essential tips for succeeding in your medical rotations, including myths and truths of each year, helpful mantras to follow, and materials you should have on your first day. Learn how to navigate presentations, prepare for rounds, and enhance your learning experience. Discover the importance of being early, curious, and prepared to excel in your rotations. Maximize your potential by asking questions, staying humble, and embracing the challenges of medical training. This guide will help you thrive during your rotations and become a successful medical student.

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Survival Guide for Medical Rotations: Myths, Mantras, and Materials

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  1. Road Guide to Rotations Myths, mantras, and materials

  2. How to survive your first day • You win a lot of brownie points just for being early • Plan to double (or 1.5) transportation time • If early, read up on a patient or a topic (see resources…) • You WILL fumble through a presentation, maybe even the first 20 • Review the traditional H&P template prior to your first day • Ask your senior resident (or a friendly MS4) to go over it with you prior to rounding

  3. It’s okay to feel bit silly on your first day….

  4. Materials: what to put in your white coat on the first day

  5. Colored pens • Paper/small notebook • Stethoscope • Reflex hammer • Tuning fork and safety pins (for neuro) • Kleenex, money, chapstick • Phone (discreetly) RESOURCES: • Wards: Pocket Medicine • Clinic: 5 minute clinical consult • OR: Surgical Recall • ASK residents: what source do YOU recommend

  6. Myths and truths of your 3rd year • Come up with an intelligent answer to any question • Never use Wikipedia • Ask each and every question that comes to mind • Classmates are competition • There is one best study resource for every rotation

  7. Myths of your 4th year • You absolutely MUST get an “H” in the first rotation of specialty of interest • You can ask for letters or rec in the fall • You NEED period 5 off • Wait as long as possible to take CS and CK • It’s NOT OK to be wrong

  8. Mantras • Be Interested (Genuinely!) • Be Curious • Be Early • Be Prepared • Be Friendly • Smile • Be HELPFUL, HUMBLE, and QUICK TO FORGIVE • Refrain from gossiping about attendings or residents (and patients, obviously!) • READ, READ, READ: about your patients, about the next day’s cases, about topics you don’t know

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  10. Misc. Advice • Take ownership of your patients! You are responsible for relaying the plan to them and their family! • Always introduce yourself and make it clear you are a medical student • Read the grading rubrics for each rotation • Start studying for shelves earlier rather than later • Bring in interesting articles, offer to give short ten minute presentations on topics you think are interesting • Always attempt to contribute to your patients’ plans

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