My first rotation during my M3 year was Internal Medicine. For those of you who don't know, Internal Medicine is a jack of all trades but master of none. They are responsible for taking care of the patient upon admission, consulting specialists if needed, prescribing medication, and figuring out what the patient needs. They need to widespread knowledge of all the diseases out there but if some work up needs detail, they usually consult a specialist to come and advise the internal medicine team.
I will have to say that the residents and attending I am currently working with are amazing teachers and people. They make sure to explain a lot of confusing topics and help us with our presentations and physical exams.
For CMU, our IM rotations are 2 months so the schedule might change during the next month but here is an overall view of this month:
4:30 AM - get up and get ready
5:15 AM - leave my house for the hospital
6:00 AM - get to the lounge and start looking at the morning labs and charts
7:15 AM - go pre-round on my patients and finish notes
8:00 AM - morning report with the residents
9:00 AM - meet up with the attending and discuss patients
(note, sometimes the attending chooses to the bedside rounds where we directly go to the floors and discuss the patient outside the door or sometimes the attending chooses to go to a meeting room and we discuss our patients there)
12:00 PM - lunch + afternoon report
1:00 PM - depends on the day but we either wait for new admits or the attending sometimes presents an interactive lecture
5:00 PM - this is the time we usually leave, sometimes we leave earlier
7:00 PM IF it is a SHORT CALL day, we can stay in the hospital until 7 but the residents are really nice and usually tell us to go home earlier if we already have our admits and notes completed.
Sleep is a major problem so you better get used to having less sleep and more caffeine. Being able to properly study is also huge because most of the time, after a shift, you are super exhausted and do not want to do anything so I recommend either staying in the hospital to study or studying in between downtime whenever you have any.
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