Medical School

Yesterday I forgot we were having company over. Oops. Luckily I remembered with enough time to actually fix dinner. I fixed Mexican food, enchiladas, beans and rice. Yea! For Mexican food that you can pull out of a hat in a crunch! I then asked several other people to join us as well. We had 3 other Med-students and families over. It was really nice. Especially the whole adult interaction thing. It's interesting to see each of us going through the same thing and each of us handling it differently. It sure is a diverse experience, this med school thing. We have to decide this weekend in which order Kevin's going to take his rotations. Rotations for medical school are the times where the medical students are actually in the hospital and clinic doing some hands on learning. Each rotation consists of 12 weeks and varies greatly in intensity and on-call nights. Right now we are thinking 1st- peds/ob (pediatrics for 6 weeks, ob for 6 weeks), 2nd Surgery (This way he can take it early enough to be recognized for it but he's not with the "gunners"), 3rd Smalls (2 weeks for each of the following or pick and choose, anethesia, radiology, pathology... I can't remember the rest), 4th internal medicine (adult care in hospital). Hopefully this will be a good set up. He'll have to turn in his list in the next week or so. We'll hear back at the end of April what the up coming year will be like. They warn you about how intense each rotation is. For surgery apparently it supposed to be 18 hour days 7 days a week. ugh. I know Kaori, one of the other med-school wives said she didn't see her husband during those 12 weeks. Ugh. That'll be interesting. With Peds/ob sometimes the students are called 5 times a night. To give you an idea, when a Dr. is paged it's usually the medical student who's called first to go do the initial assessment... who then informs the resident doctor. It's going to be a LONG year. Interestingly enough we are both so extremely excited about it though because it'll seem like we are actually making progress on this whole 4 years experience. I can't wait for him to be with patients. He is always so happy when he is seeing patients vs. Being in the classroom. I'm excited for him. He's been working towards this for a very very long time. It's fun to be able to be here while his he's fulfilling his dreams. I'm happy to be apart of it and to know that I had a hand in helping him get here. :-) He starts July 6 with his first rotation.