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- 0:00Hello anesthesia enthusiasts, I'm Nate Moore and you're listening to Style Points.
- 0:15This is a special episode because today we are going to hear from the graduating class
- 0:18of interns here at the University of Cincinnati.
- 0:21They've completed a challenging year learning the foundations of medicine along with the
- 0:25basics of anesthesia and are about to enter the promised land of their clinical anesthesia
- 0:29years.
- 0:30We're lucky to have them here today because tomorrow will be their first day as CA1 residents
- 0:35and we're going to get the chance to hear them reflect on lessons learned and experiences
- 0:39gained over their past year.
- 0:45My name is Anne.
- 0:46I learned a lot this year.
- 0:48Your first year of residency is pretty hard.
- 0:52I think there were two big buckets.
- 0:54There's all the logistic things that you learn, all the medical knowledge, learning a new
- 1:00hospital system, learning how to work well on teams.
- 1:04All of those are important but I think kind of a more important bucket to me personally
- 1:10was more so some of the emotional growth of intern year.
- 1:16I think we can get really caught up in how do we go about caring for patients from a
- 1:23systems perspective, how do we get them connected to the right medicines, the right physicians,
- 1:28et cetera, et cetera.
- 1:30But sometimes we don't always get great instruction of how to educate patients, how to understand
- 1:40what their goals are.
- 1:43And we learn all of these lovely things in med school about how to care for patients
- 1:48medically but not always how to address their needs beyond the medical issue that's on
- 1:53our problem list.
- 1:56And I have some personal bias here since I like critical care.
- 2:01I like very sick patients and I think there's a really important role for more of that emotional
- 2:10kind of care.
- 2:13So I think one of my biggest learnings this year was how to integrate that into care for
- 2:19all my patients.
- 2:22Not just trying to address their acute need for dialysis but to always keep in mind that
- 2:31this may not be what they want for their quality of life long term.
- 2:35And it's important to keep those kind of macro views about how they are as a person
- 2:42outside of their medical problem.
- 2:45So learning how to balance that with all of those other logistic things was a really big
- 2:51area of growth for me this year.
- 2:53I think that's super insightful.
- 2:55And you're right, it's not something you necessarily learn about in med school and then it can
- 2:58hit you like a freight train when you get into residency and you kind of have an idea
- 3:01of what you want to do medically and discover you might not be able to do it from a social
- 3:06standpoint.
- 3:07Any specific examples of situations where this kind of really became real for you?
- 3:13Yeah, I think you learn a lot of this through modeling and I don't think I quite grasped
- 3:21how much I learned about this until honestly this past week I finished on a general medicine
- 3:26rotation.
- 3:28We have a lot of medical students and so a lot of learners around and we had this very
- 3:35lovely patient who was very sick, had terminal cancer, had a lot of medical complaints going
- 3:42on and we were doing formal bedside rounds and this medical student was doing a very
- 3:50lovely job presenting all of the medical issues for this patient.
- 3:55Ultimately it was a very complex case and she went through all of this data and all
- 4:00of these things that we were going to try and do and she kind of paused and I cut her
- 4:07off.
- 4:08I was like, I think that's lovely but we should maybe take a step back.
- 4:13Think about what we're doing, what you want and within two, three minutes of meaningful
- 4:19discussion with this patient and her family who is there, they were already on the edge
- 4:26of I don't think we want to pursue these things anymore.
- 4:30I think we want to be a family and I think we want to be comfortable and I don't think
- 4:34we want to do more things here in the hospital.
- 4:38We were able to send that patient home that day comfortable through that conversation
- 4:47which was very validating to me that I was able to learn to balance those things this
- 4:52year.
- 4:53My name is Michelle and I think one of the things, I don't know if it's something I
- 5:03learned but something I noticed was really important for me this year.
- 5:08You know everyone talks about having a good support network but I came to a city where
- 5:11I had no support network and I know a lot of people are in that position when they're
- 5:16moving to a new city.
- 5:17Maybe they're leaving their family for the first time, they're going to a city that they've
- 5:21never been to and that's kind of the position I found myself in and although I have great
- 5:27co-residents and co-interns and I love hanging out with them, the likelihood of us having
- 5:34the same time off was pretty low.
- 5:36So like if there was ever a day where I had a random Tuesday or a random Thursday off,
- 5:42it's not like my resident friends also had that day off and so for me it was really important
- 5:47to develop a support network and a group of friends outside of medicine that they would
- 5:52be free on a random Tuesday afternoon and we could hang out.
- 5:57And so I think that's if you're moving to a new city, I know like a lot of people bop
- 6:00around for undergrad and then for med school and stuff so you're used to meeting new people
- 6:04and you're used to making new friends but I think in residency especially like having
- 6:08a group of friends, especially if you're moving to a city where you don't have family or anyone
- 6:12that you know, having a group of friends outside of medicine that you can hit up on any random
- 6:16day at any random hour is really important and it was important for me.
- 6:20So like examples, I'm a very active person so I met a lot of people through rock climbing,
- 6:25I've met a lot of people through snowboarding and just yeah, developing a network outside
- 6:31of medicine is important even if your co-residents are really cool.
- 6:34That's a hard thing about medicine too is it's super stressful and we yank you from
- 6:38one city to the next city and you need a support network to be successful at it and it can
- 6:43be really hard to keep creating new ones.
- 6:45What advice would you give to someone who feels like they're struggling with finding
- 6:48their support network when they're somewhere totally new?
- 6:52I think start with your hobbies.
- 6:54There are interest groups in every city likely in line with your hobbies but honestly try
- 7:00a new hobby.
- 7:03If you can't find a good group of whatever you're used to doing within that city, try
- 7:08something new and meet new people that way.
- 7:09I think just putting yourself out there and being open to new experiences, new things,
- 7:13new people.
- 7:14What advice would you give to someone who feels like they're struggling with finding
- 7:15their support network when they're somewhere totally new?
- 7:16Hey, hi Max.
- 7:17You know, just going through the end of my intern year I feel like that the biggest lesson
- 7:26that I've learned is that you know, no matter how hard it gets it really helps to just be
- 7:30a little bit kind.
- 7:32Like when you're in the deep trenches of intern year and you know, you are just exhausted
- 7:36by all the internal medicine you're doing and not the anesthesia, just a little bit
- 7:40can go a long way.
- 7:43I have a kind of a really surprising example of this.
- 7:47It actually just happened to me yesterday.
- 7:50I was in the ED and there's this nurse who was just like walking by and she goes up to
- 7:55me and she says, did a patient's family member take a photo of you by any chance?
- 8:02Apparently there's like a framed photo, an actually framed photo of me in the emergency
- 8:08department now.
- 8:10And I was just incredibly surprised by that.
- 8:13I was like, yeah, yeah.
- 8:14She's like, what happened?
- 8:15Why is that there?
- 8:16And so I was on long call and I was, I don't know, at like, it was probably 7 p.m. and
- 8:23I was just cross covering on all the other teams, just answering pages and one family,
- 8:29they wanted to speak to a doctor about like, you know, the plan for the day.
- 8:33They hadn't spoken to anybody for hours and hours and hours.
- 8:36It's not totally abnormal and it's not unusual for that to happen.
- 8:42But you know, it was me on cross cover.
- 8:44I really had no idea what the true game plan was for these patients.
- 8:49And when I went down there, I told them that, you know, I can only say what the team has
- 8:56told me.
- 8:57And they just said that you are being worked up for either like an infectious joint or
- 9:02maybe just a gout flare.
- 9:04But they had been sitting down in the emergency department for over like 24 hours.
- 9:11The hospital was full.
- 9:12They were admitted to the hospital, but they didn't have a room in it.
- 9:16They didn't even have a room in the emergency department.
- 9:19They were just in one of the triage chairs for over 24 hours.
- 9:23Basically, they were pretty upset.
- 9:25And you know, I told them that I would communicate with the orthopedic team.
- 9:30I couldn't make any promises, of course, and I wasn't leading their care.
- 9:34So even though the orthopedic surgeons, they said, you know, we're not going to go and
- 9:39see them.
- 9:40We'll see them tomorrow morning, just like the plan.
- 9:44They really they really just appreciated me coming down to talk to them because no one
- 9:48had for just hours and hours and hours and they were just sitting in a chair.
- 9:53And this guy was like 88 years old.
- 9:55And his wife really appreciated that somebody came down to talk to them.
- 9:59I think that's something we lose sight of too from the medicine side.
- 10:02We get wrapped up in the plans and we forget that there's a patient on the other end who
- 10:05would probably like to hear what the plan is or get at least an update about what's
- 10:09going on.
- 10:10You mentioned something interesting where a lot of times as an intern, I remember going
- 10:14down to talk to a patient and I didn't necessarily have a clear idea of what the plan was yet.
- 10:18Or when you're cross covering what the plan earlier in the day was, what are some things
- 10:22you would say in those situations to kind of update the patient?
- 10:25But when you don't have a full idea of what's going on in the background.
- 10:29Yeah, so what I really try to emphasize is that although the day team has full knowledge
- 10:37of your situation and where they plan to go with your care, I can try my best to explain
- 10:48what has been done so far.
- 10:51And that if there are any questions to definitely take them up with the day team and that I
- 10:56can pass that information along as well.
- 11:01Right, I'm Anna and I've been thinking about this.
- 11:07There's two things that I want to talk about.
- 11:09One is that doing well intern year, I think is equally dependent on like working hard
- 11:17and like gaining that medical knowledge and your ability to get along with others.
- 11:23Your team is constantly changing.
- 11:25Normally you're only like, especially on medicine, you're working with the same group for a week
- 11:30total and some some portion of that team is always going to be changing.
- 11:36And I found that the hard days weren't weren't as hard when you had a really good team and
- 11:45you worked well together and you had something that bonded you together as a team that you
- 11:49could all kind of relate to and joke around with after a really long day.
- 11:56I think that made my intern year a lot better realizing that as soon as you can make those
- 12:01connections like the sooner the better because it makes your week not so long.
- 12:07And that's a crazy thing about medicine is we really like these ad hoc teams even more
- 12:11in the OR when you have a different team every day, different surgeon, different circulator,
- 12:15different everybody.
- 12:16What were some strategies you used when you were on those days where the team was switching
- 12:21over and you had a whole new attending or other team members coming on to kind of get
- 12:24everybody up to speed?
- 12:26I think a lot of times we would try to find a common thread between the group by asking
- 12:32what do you do for fun outside of like if you weren't here, what would you be doing
- 12:36kind of thing?
- 12:37And we all would normally find something in common from those conversations and then draw
- 12:42back to those every day or talk about a similar artist that we liked, play that music in the
- 12:47workroom or something like that.
- 12:50My second thing is as a med student, I was full of anxiety.
- 12:56The transition from fourth year of medical school to being an intern was a little bit
- 13:01it was it was difficult at first because I was still in the mindset of kind of like being
- 13:08evaluated and constantly being watched and I was like that's not going to be sustainable
- 13:13for intern year for an entire year.
- 13:17So every morning on the drive into work, if I started to feel that like anxiety creeping
- 13:21up, I would just tell myself like I am now here to learn.
- 13:25I'm not here for an evaluation.
- 13:27I'm not here to prove myself.
- 13:29I'm here to learn.
- 13:30And that really, really helped change my perspective.
- 13:34I wasn't going home and like being just completely exhausted at the end of the day anymore.
- 13:39It's like I was able to enjoy my time at work way more once I was able to look at it that
- 13:44way.
- 13:48I'm Garrett.
- 13:50A few things I learned from intern year is hard because I learned a lot during intern
- 13:55year.
- 13:56But something I think that helped me a lot and it's probably going to help me going in
- 13:59the future is just trying to be kind to and as friendly as you can with all of your co-residents,
- 14:06even if they're not in your own specialty, at the very least cordial and also even if
- 14:12it's like a rotation that you're not too excited to do, trying to show up to work every day
- 14:17eager to learn and eager to help the team as best you can.
- 14:22I feel like if you do that, then the people that you're working with, your seniors, your
- 14:28faculty, they kind of they notice that and it provides you a lot more opportunity and
- 14:36it allows you to have a little bit more independence than if you're not showing up as eager to
- 14:45work.
- 14:46I've heard some seniors that say, I was on these rotations I didn't really like, so I
- 14:51just tried to do the bare minimum.
- 14:52But if you're expected to go to work every day and you show up giving your best, then
- 14:58it really gets noticed and it allows you to have more opportunities, more procedures,
- 15:03which is something that I really tried to do.
- 15:05When I was on my ICU rotations, they saw that I was a hard worker and they would knew that
- 15:10I was interested in procedures and would seek me out if they knew there was something that
- 15:14I wanted to do because they valued the way that I presented myself on a day to day basis.
- 15:20So I think that that's something that was really valuable during my intern year and
- 15:23something that I would recommend doing for any incoming interns, regardless of the rotation
- 15:30that you're going to be a part of.
- 15:31I think that's super insightful and I definitely agree.
- 15:33I think when you're kind to other people, especially in the hospital where people often
- 15:37are not very kind to each other, that's reflected back at you and it makes your life easier.
- 15:42Any specific examples of when someone was kind to you and that made your day better?
- 15:47I think that just by presenting myself as being kind and you can tell some people have
- 15:52bad days and you can't take a lot of that stuff personally because it doesn't always
- 15:58reflect their true character.
- 16:00I think that almost every day I had positive interactions with the majority of the people
- 16:04that I worked with.
- 16:06I can't think of one particular example, but I know that things like when I was on the
- 16:10emergency department and I would call my medicine colleagues that I had worked with for five
- 16:15months when they pick up the phone, they're not excited to get admissions from the ED,
- 16:20but I would be like, oh hey John, it's Garrett.
- 16:23They would, knowing that it's me, would break the ice or take a little bit of the edge
- 16:29off and sometimes I would apologize like I am sorry.
- 16:32I know you guys are getting slammed right now, but I have this new admission for you
- 16:37and it made everything a little bit easier with that regard.
- 16:41I think that moving forward, some of these relationships, especially in the ICU, are
- 16:47going to need to be maintained, so it can only help moving forward as well.
- 16:56My name is Claudia Mort and I am going to be a CA1 in about a week.
- 17:04One of the most important things that I would say I learned was the importance of a routine.
- 17:11I basically would set everything up so that the morning before work, it would be super
- 17:18easy to just grab my stuff and go.
- 17:23At the beginning of the week, I would set up all my outfits.
- 17:27It was basically always the same, but I would set up all my outfits.
- 17:31I would just grab the one at the top of the pile and put it on.
- 17:37I had the same breakfast I think almost every single day and that just made my mornings
- 17:45way better.
- 17:46In that, I was able to find time for myself, which I think is so important in this transition.
- 17:54As we shift from like medical students to caring for other people, it's easy to forget
- 18:02to take care of yourself because you're so focused on doing well.
- 18:10In that, it's so important to recognize when that's happening and find a way to step back
- 18:15to care for yourself.
- 18:18With this routine, I was able to carve out time to do my makeup in the morning.
- 18:24That was a form of self care that I know I'm going to have every single day.
- 18:32That's one thing that made me feel good.
- 18:36I could do it consistently despite of whatever's going on.
- 18:41I had a good start to the day.
- 18:43That's super cool.
- 18:44That's something I now wish I had done during my intern year.
- 18:46It's so much easier.
- 18:48You make so many decisions throughout the day.
- 18:50It's nice to take some of those other decisions off your plate and make your day a little
- 18:54easier.
- 18:55What are good breakfast options when you're prepping for the next day?
- 18:57I need to know for myself.
- 18:59I did have two options.
- 19:02One was overnight oats.
- 19:04I made it super boring, but I worked.
- 19:07In a container that I could take to work with me in my bag to eat while charting, I would
- 19:14just take oats and I would put almond milk the night before or maybe a couple nights
- 19:20before and then the morning off, I just add blueberries to it.
- 19:24Or I would have a smoothie.
- 19:26It's the same smoothie every single time when I have a smoothie.
- 19:30That definitely sounds like it made life easier in a potentially stressful year.
- 19:35It allowed me to prioritize myself in the aspects I cared about and it made me feel
- 19:40good.
- 19:41All right.
- 19:42I'm Morgan.
- 19:43A few things that I learned during intern year.
- 19:49One would be relying on the class above me, especially asking questions when I felt like
- 19:56maybe things weren't going the way I maybe I had expected and that maybe my experiences
- 20:02weren't meeting what expectations that I had for that rotation.
- 20:07Just reaching out and getting advice or support I felt like was really helpful and put things
- 20:12into perspective.
- 20:15Then the other thing would be feeling as an intern that every time you got a call that
- 20:22you were expected to solve the question that was presented to you and fixing all of your
- 20:28patient's problems, which is not possible at sometimes.
- 20:34One of the things would be some of the little calls you'd get about a patient having a
- 20:39little bit of a headache or a little bit of stomach pain, something like that.
- 20:46After asking all the important questions, making sure they didn't have any red flag
- 20:49symptoms, just asking the patient, often they'd say like, yeah, I've had something like this
- 20:54before.
- 20:55Especially if it's like a headache, you could be like, well, what do you usually do when
- 21:00you get a headache?
- 21:02Sometimes they'd be like, I'll just sleep it off and drink some water.
- 21:05You can say, all right, let's try that first.
- 21:08You don't have to always give them Tylenol or if you do give them Tylenol, that might
- 21:12work and that might be fine and you don't need to go further than that.
- 21:16It's okay to always just take a step back and not fix everything right in the moment.
- 21:21I think that's definitely really important, especially starting out and especially when
- 21:25you don't know what's a disaster situation and what's not yet, what needs to be escalated
- 21:30and what doesn't need to be escalated.
- 21:33Can you tell me about a time where you got a question that you didn't know the answer
- 21:36to and how you work through talking to a more senior person and came to a solution together?
- 21:42I don't know.
- 21:43I think just one case, I think trying to learn sick versus not sick is hard sometimes, especially
- 21:51as an intern.
- 21:53It's something that really just takes time, but I did have this one patient that was on
- 21:59my team, but it wasn't my direct patient that I was caring for that day.
- 22:04When I saw the patient that morning, I didn't have any indication, but when I looked at
- 22:08the patient, I was just like, you look sick.
- 22:12Everything seems different after seeing this patient after a few days.
- 22:15Didn't have any indication, and then I was there on long call and then got called back
- 22:20to the room.
- 22:23I was like, there's obviously something wrong.
- 22:26I was like, I don't know why the patient needs to go to the ICU, so we ran a bunch of labs
- 22:29and their hemoglobin was extremely low and they had a GI bleed.
- 22:34While I couldn't figure it out before, eventually I was like, okay, my suspicions were correct
- 22:40that something else needed to happen with this patient.
- 22:47My name is AJ Pagan.
- 22:50Some things I learned about intern year, I think really investing in your intern class
- 22:56is really important.
- 22:57We had a unique experience where we had six people from where I went to med school, UC,
- 23:03join our class.
- 23:04I wasn't necessarily friends with them in medical school, but starting residency, we've
- 23:09gotten very close.
- 23:12I think that's been a great experience for all of us.
- 23:15Getting close, we've built this friendship past just colleagues.
- 23:20We do lots of things together, and then I think it extends into work where we're always
- 23:25willing to help each other out, whether that be on an internal medicine rotation where
- 23:29someone's getting swamped in the OR when we're on anesthesia and we know that you're having
- 23:33trouble setting up a room or something.
- 23:35I think just taking that extra step to get to know each other goes a long way both academically
- 23:41in your career and then outside of work.
- 23:43It's always good to have a lot of new friends wherever you're moving to.
- 23:47I think that's a really good point.
- 23:49It's so important to have people you trust as your support system because intern year
- 23:53is stressful and you're going to need people to lean on and help you out.
- 23:56Do you remember what things you did or the group did at the start of intern year that
- 24:01brought everyone together so you had that cohesive group?
- 24:04Yes, since a lot of us are from the area, we grabbed a lot of dinners together, places
- 24:10that we recommended, and we made sure to include each other, significant others in there to
- 24:16actually get to know your family and everything.
- 24:19What is important to you to get to know you more than just the surface level of I'm XYZ
- 24:25and I'm interested in anesthesia and the one or two things.
- 24:28Now I think our significant others are also friends with each other.
- 24:32I think that's important too because residency is stressful, time consuming and having your
- 24:39significant others also have a support system that extends beyond their own friends is important
- 24:44because everyone's kind of going through the same thing and having the chance to have common
- 24:49experiences and bonding I think has been important too.
- 24:52Now I have to ask this.
- 24:53What's your favorite place to get dinner in Cincinnati?
- 24:55Oh, that's a good question.
- 25:00I think the best bang for your buck I think that I've been going to recently is Pepin
- 25:04Delores.
- 25:05It's an Italian restaurant.
- 25:07Really good homemade pasta for a pretty affordable price, but we've gone to Mattria Bunch as
- 25:14a class.
- 25:15They have pretty good pizza there and then the beer is also very good.
- 25:24My name is Nate.
- 25:25I'm one of the residents at UC.
- 25:26I'd say the biggest thing I learned this year that I took away from was how to advocate
- 25:34for myself and how to advocate for others.
- 25:36I found that at least from my experience going through engineer there were several opportunities
- 25:42that came up where there were things that maybe to me appeared like they could be improved
- 25:49upon.
- 25:50So I reached out to my seniors, to my faculty to discuss ways that we can make things better
- 25:56and I feel that as an intern sometimes that can be intimidating or sometimes you feel
- 26:01like that's not your place to do that.
- 26:03But I think one thing that I definitely took away from this year was that everyone has
- 26:06the opportunity to do that.
- 26:09It doesn't depend on what year you are, if you're a junior or senior, et cetera.
- 26:12I think that's really insightful and it's really hard to do when you're just starting
- 26:15out as an intern, especially if you're going to a location you haven't been before.
- 26:19What was kind of your process when you saw something you didn't think was right?
- 26:23What did you do to get in touch with people that could help?
- 26:26So I think the first thing for me is trying to get feedback from my peers immediately
- 26:31to see if what I was feeling was out of the norm or if things are part for the course
- 26:36and maybe that I was just experiencing sort of the status quo.
- 26:41If something was unusual or if we feel like the experience is something that is not in
- 26:47line with what it should be, then I would reach out to my seniors to get their feedback
- 26:51on it.
- 26:52And then depending on that process, then going up to faculty.
- 26:56And here I would say I'm very fortunate that I have very supportive seniors and faculty
- 27:01and staff and I always feel empowered to be able to bring things up.
- 27:04So in terms of advice, I would say for any prospective students, definitely look at programs
- 27:09where you can feel empowered to do that, where you are comfortable speaking and being able
- 27:14to advocate for yourself and others.
- 27:15I definitely think that's important.
- 27:17Are there any questions you think applicants could ask when they're on the interview trail
- 27:21to kind of get a feel for how receptive senior people are at people advocating this way?
- 27:27Yeah, absolutely.
- 27:29I think on the interview trail, it was a good sign if the program themselves advertised a
- 27:35system.
- 27:37So I know coming here from UC, that was something that was highlighted, the feedback system,
- 27:42you know, multiple residents, multiple faculty talking about like there are ways to escalate
- 27:48concerns.
- 27:49And so that's already a green flag here on the interview trail and you see that.
- 27:54If I don't hear anything about that, then I begin to ask simply, is there a system for
- 27:59feedback?
- 28:00Is there a system?
- 28:01Like if I have concerns, is there a system in place to allow residents to express their
- 28:07concerns?
- 28:12I am Brian Upton.
- 28:14I think the biggest things I learned from intern year is just how quickly you progress.
- 28:20So I think everyone starts off pretty timid and uncomfortable with the amount of knowledge
- 28:24that they have, but kind of there's a point through intern year where all of a sudden
- 28:29things just make sense.
- 28:31All of your training kind of kicks in and things just start flowing.
- 28:35I think that's when a lot of people really feel like they're getting into their rhythm.
- 28:38That was something I didn't quite expect.
- 28:40I think for me, it came out of after doing one of the ICU rotations, I came back to the
- 28:44floor and like everything just seemed simpler after that.
- 28:48I think a combination of having some ICU experience seeing sort of what the edges of physiology
- 28:54could be and then bringing it back to patients that aren't to that extreme and it just kind
- 28:59of put everything in perspective and was easier to manage at that point.
- 29:03ICU rotation can definitely be eye opening.
- 29:05Definitely for people who haven't had a lot of ICU experience before, you see some crazy
- 29:08stuff and that makes you better.
- 29:11Were there any specific experiences you had in the ICU where you really had a moment or
- 29:15learned a lot you feel?
- 29:18I don't think there's any one experience, but just seeing patients on ventilators, patients
- 29:25on multiple pressers, patients in various arrhythmias.
- 29:32Not just one case, but the collective of all of them.
- 29:35That's really where it's not just one organ system anymore.
- 29:38Everything's interacting.
- 29:40From the anesthesia side, I know we often like ICU rotations because we get to do a
- 29:44lot of procedures.
- 29:46What strategies did you use to make sure you got access to doing procedures or kind of
- 29:51put yourself out there to get more experience with them?
- 29:54I was relatively proactive just if a procedure needed to be done, just volunteer like, hey,
- 29:59I'd love to do this.
- 30:01I think one area that I was able to get a lot of extra experience was in the emergency
- 30:06department.
- 30:08Once the nurses learned that I was in anesthesia and could do IVs, they would come get me if
- 30:13they couldn't get it or if they needed an ultrasound IV, they would usually come to
- 30:18me or one of the emergency medicine residents.
- 30:21Even though there were other off-service residents there, they knew that anesthesia was capable
- 30:24of doing them.
- 30:25It was a good chance to do a lot of ultrasound in the ED as well just because you need it
- 30:32and you're there.
- 30:33Those are definitely the things where you can only learn so much reading a textbook.
- 30:36You kind of have to do a few to get good at it.
- 30:38Exactly.
- 30:39Did you have a favorite rotation from intern year?
- 30:42I mean, anesthesia.
- 30:44That was an easy question.
- 30:53Thanks again for joining us for our special episode with my co-host, Nate Moore.
- 30:57I started my intern year 10 years ago today.
- 31:00I still remember the feeling.
- 31:02I also want to thank our outstanding incoming CA1 class who put significant thought and
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