Four weeks has passed since we finished with Pedia and started with OB. I won't deny that the four weeks were looong weeks of looong days that sometimes I just want to make it through the day and get over it.
The days of an OB ICC start early, well relatively early especially if you are used to going to classes at 8 am and sometimes even later. The day welcomes you with endorsements from the previous obstetricians on duty (OOD) to the next in duty in front of everyone, residents, fellows, students and even consultants at times. The chief resident would ask questions about the case, the management and the theoretical stuff as well. Being the misunderstood bibo kids that we are, we were the favorites for this month (and sorry to future OB ICCs if that kind of legacy lives on:p). but the summary rounds made me learn a lot. Unfortunately, i think I learned more in OB than I did in pedia.
After the 30 minutes, we either go to small group discussions or preceptorials with the intimidating but very high yield learning consultants, to lectures which are all very easy to understand as well. Aside from consultant based learnings, we are also given the opportunity to rotate to different specialty clinics or to our duty posts. We can either post in the OB-OPD, Gyne-OPD, OB Admitting Section or the LR/DR. I personally like the OB-OPD post because we are given the liberty to act like doctors, yes even up to the management. I think we lacked experience in the OBAS or maybe our group is so much of benign magnets that nothing that toxic happens when we are in duty, which I dont know if it is a good or a bad thing.
We finish everything at 4 pm and sometimes even earlier, especially in the OPD. and then I go home and start 'studying' for the next day and sleep early because the next day starts with another battle, and we can't be absent if we don't want to take the final exams.
We were also given the chance for a 24 hour turned almost 36 hours duty because of the code black. :| and in this LR/DR duty, I was given the chance to almost deliver a baby, more of assisted and delivered a placenta :) The baby is slimy and slippery and wet and I enjoyed the delivery of the placenta. haha. I have no picture with my first 'catch' but i will never forget that feeling :p
And now, it's time to pass our badge and pay what we have experienced forward to the next block of OB ICCs :)
I will definitely miss OB. In fact, I am missing it right now for tonight I have no fear of sleeping in, of being late, and irrational as it may seem, I do miss those feelings. heeeee.
Loving OB was not as easy as loving pedia, that's true. or atleast for my case. Pedia is my first love, no doubt about that. Those kids make me love what I do and make me enjoy it. I only felt tired once, during the 12 hour ER duty, which is actually understandable.
OB was a different story, I grew tired easily, I always have that fear in me which makes me grow tired again and again. but I eventually fell in love with OB. and we were almost through with it. But I guess it was the kind of love that no matter how short the time left is to enjoy, I allowed myself to love it and I made the right choice ;)
As for the specialization I want in the future, Pedia is definitely my first choice (as of ever since). I was in search of the second choice, and for years I can't think of anything. Now i do think, I have my second choice. :p but im not closing any doors, besides, I'm three years away from that two letters after my name and being able to decide the path i would want to take. A looot more will happen :)
And tomorrow, our block's IM journey begins :)
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