Tuesday, January 6, 2009

I love voting people off the island.

Tomorrow I dive into the unknown! Five of us are heading out to Vorhees NJ for our ob/gyn rotation. It's six weeks and we know we have to do two weeks of ob/gyn clinic, two weeks of gyn surgery, and two weeks of labor and delivery. However, we don't know which we're starting tomorrow yet, so I have no idea what the day will hold. The worst part for me is that the five students have to decide who's doing what when, and I just met these folks yesterday. Already I know that three of us want to do the surgery part first and only two may do it at a time.

The two weeks of labor and delivery involves one week of day shifts (6a to 6p) and one week of night shifts (6p to 6a) and usually someone will get stuck on the night shift the last week; the week when you take the exam. Luckily for us, what would have been our sixth person switched off the rotation so we are going to try to arrange it so none of us gets stuck, and have our five respective night weeks be the first five weeks of the rotation. So this means only one student will do L&D the last two week slot. To complicate things, the schedule choices make it sound like that same student will have to be the *sole* student to do surgery first. Who will it be? I see this whole thing playing out something like Survivor, Vorhees edition.

If I deliver a baby tomorrow, I'll let you know.

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