Improvements

Both my preceptor and I seemed to step up our game yesterday. He, having finally looked over my SOAP notes, realized I wasn't a complete retard. I, having snapped myself out of my sulking, decided to go in with a positive attitude.

It worked out pretty well.

It was only a half day, but I still saw 7 patients independently and even managed to get a "good job" at the end of the day. It is difficult when the appointment slots are only 15 minutes, because there is no way I'm up to that speed yet. Therefore, I'm constantly getting us "behind," and my preceptor has every right to act a little irritated about it. That being said, I don't expect that I'll be running on schedule for quite a while. Doing a whole appointment in 15 minutes as a new student in a new clinic is just not a reasonable expectation. Perhaps in a month or so I'll be scooting along much quicker.

I'm a little irritated at my rotation schedule at the moment. My elective rotation, dermatology, all of a sudden disappeared from Typhon. I was contacted to give my preference for a replacement rotation. I said dermatology. The response was that "that will be difficult to find this late in the game." Sigh. Additionally, I'm almost positive any "last minute" rotation will be an "away" rotation, which means that rotations 4-8 will all be away from home. That is 6 months!!!! I realize that you are all dealing with the same situation, but it just sucks, and so I'm venting.

Anyway, time to finish getting ready for my 3rd day of work. I hope today will continue the upwards trend.

Jen

PS- still love my roommates.