It’s the end of my radiology residency at Mount Sinai Hospital. I spent my final week reflecting upon my case log from residency, cases mined from four years of dictation, trolling the neuro list, and asking people for fun cases. That’s 1900+ cases of varying educational value, personal significance, or pure visual spectacle. Here are some highlights:
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Now I am Doing the Reading
Two days into my radiology residency and I’m already producing reports for body CTs. What a terrifying thought.
On day one, when they sat me down at a PACS workstation, they taught me how to log in, how to select a study and scroll through it, and which button to press to record dictations. The senior resident then basically just said “go for it. Say what you see!” Continue reading Now I am Doing the Reading
18 weeks of practice
It’s the beginning of my fourth year of med school and I just finished my four-week sub-internship rotation in Internal Medicine. The rest of the year is filled with mostly research, random electives, applications, interviews, and unscheduled time. Thus, I’ve had an uncomfortable realization: this is it. This is essentially as mature as my medical understanding will be before I get “MD” stamped behind my name in June. Continue reading 18 weeks of practice