Medical student success and 3rd year rotations

Medical student success and 3rd year rotations

  Look No Further. Get Started Today. Call: 888-839-9997 e-mail: [email protected] 20 Minutes Free Consultation How to succeed as a medical student on third year rotations When you are in medical school, much of your application to residency will be based on your performance on the third year clinical rotations. The most helpful thing to keep in mind is simply to put yourself in those people’s shoes who are evaluating you. Thus, we provide a brief guide to who is evaluating you and what they would want in a medical student.  1. Intern: “The intern is trying to take care of the minutiae involved in the hospitalizations of up to 10 patients at the same time. Anything that you can do to make his or her life easier will be much appreciated. This means really knowing the patients that you are assigned, allowing the intern to be less involved in that patient’s care and thus spread less thin. There are a lot of mundane tasks involved in taking care of patients, including getting outside records, figuring out how to send complex labs, etc. Help the intern out and he will love you. However, also appreciate that interns are very busy, so avoid the trap of being the ‘over-eager’ medical student who pesters the intern with excessive numbers of complex questions purely to show interest or hovers behind them repeatedly asking ‘what can I do for you next.'” 2. Resident: The resident is the de facto mind of the team and is there to make sure the patients are getting proper medical care. He is also demonstrating to the attending...