How are you spending your next 14 months?

First, writing this May entry means that my archive will now have two Mays in it, and maybe it's time to change it so there are two year folders!  Very exciting.  Proof that I can jabber on for years at a time.

Second, we got our clinical schedules last week for next year.  At first I was really unhappy that my order was all screwed up, with Family Med and Internal Med at the very end of the year, after I will more or less have to choose between them.  But I've grown to appreciate that I got almost all of my first choice hospitals, let alone didn't get sent to Pittsburgh or York for a rotation.  Most of the people who are looking for people to switch are trying to get out of having to move across the state for a block. 

Then after we took the time to compare my schedule with Glen's we realized a miracle had occurred!  We requested a lot of rotations outside Philly... not so far that we'd have to move but definitely driving-only spots, like in DE and NJ.  Except, we only have one car between the two of us so we were taking the chance that we would have to drive in two separate directions.  It worked out that we alternate rotations that we need the car!  It's really perfect, and has convinced me not to try to mess with moving internal medicine and screwing everything up.

So here's my schedule so you can keep track of me for the next 14 months:

May 12 - Aug 8 - Summer Semester of Business School (overlaps Block 1 of med school that I did last year).
Block 2 - Psychiatry at Jefferson (I want to do the Geriatric Psych rotation)
Block 3 - General Surgery at the VA in Wilmington DE (no weekends and no call!)
Block 4 - Anesthesia and ENT at Jefferson
[Winter Break]
Block 5 - Ob/Gyn at Virtua West Jersey (the ppl I know who did it there are the basically the only ones who had a nice OB rotation)
Block 6 - Family Med at Jefferson
Blocks 7/8 - Internal Medicine with 4 weeks at Christiana in DE, 4 weeks at Jefferson, and 4 weeks back at Christiana.
That finishes up on Thur June 18, 2009.

Maybe Glen and I can go away to celebrate our first wedding anniversary :-)
Or, maybe we can start studying for Step 2.... that's way too far away for me to have to start worry about yet.