Family Medicine Rotation

Wooo hoo! Nick's surgery rotation is OVER! Having that crossed off the list is a super great feeling. Now, of course it wasn't all bad... he learned lots of cool stuff, saw/participated in some pretty cool/crazy surgeries, and came out with a lot of great stories... however 12 weeks of all that was more than enough for this household! Nick completed his shelf exam for surgery on Friday and rocked it out with another A for the rotation! Wooo hooo! He's doing so great and really impressing everyone he works with!

Family medicine has been a wonderful change from surgery. Nick's first week has gone very smoothly and with the setting of the clinic, he works closely 1-1 with a doctor, which means he gets to do A LOT and is learning stuff all day long. The doctor he is working with the majority of the time sees a lot of patient's every day, so he's definitely been busy! But she lets him go in and see patient's on his own first and come up with what he thinks the diagnosis is and treatment should be, then goes in with him and does her own assessment and a lot of the time Nick has been right on! So basically, he's becoming quite the diagnosing king!

The majority of these 6 weeks will take place in the clinic- which is about 15 minutes away from St. Johns, however he will do 1 week inpatient where he is back at St. Johns.

His schedule for Family is pretty awesome. He has to be at St. John's for lectures occasionally between 7:30-8:00am but on other days he does not need to be at the clinic until 9:00am and on most days is done between 5:00-6:00pm.  All the doctors do rotate "urgent care hours" which means they stay until 8:00pm but since they all rotate this is just once a week or so. All in all, it's a much more "normal person" schedule!

So far this week he's seen a wide variety of issues in the clinic and people of all ages. Just to name a few of his experiences: child well-visit check ups, pregnancy confirmation, rashes, suicide ideation, cold/flu, skin biopsy.... andddd more but pregnancy brain leaves me blank! Bottom line- lots of different things :) 

So he's traded back in his glorious scrubs for dress attire but otherwise we're definitely enjoying the change of pace that family medicine offers and Nick feels much more productive and "Doctor-y" as these Doctors are much more into teaching and letting the students participate in things- so that makes for a pretty happy hubby!

:)