The comings and goings of Emergency Med.

Wow, it doesn't seem like three weeks have already passed in this EM rotation at Hermann. I've really been enjoying this month so far, and they've definitely been keeping me busy. The last couple of days I've been spending nights in the trauma section. We've been receiving lots of car accident victims, assault victims including a stabbing where Dr. Duke ran the code amidst lots of excitement and activity, and I've been getting some very good practice on my suturing abilities. The residents and staff are all very cool and I've been learning some very helpful tricks of the trade from them which have really made some things very easy. I just can't believe the month is almost over already.

I had today off, which I used to polish my personal statement and Curriculum Vitae because I actually have my first residency interview in the morning. UT Houston grants a personal courtesy to their visiting students by letting them interview while on their away rotation. Although this really doesn't make a difference to me since I live in the same city, it's a great opportunity to get one interview out of the way already. It should also be great practice for when the real interview trail starts up this fall. I'm not planning on travelling too far though, alot of medical students interview and thus travel all over the country. I really just have the intention of staying in Texas, so I'm limiting my traveling to mostly inside the state. Once I get the interviews over with tomorrow, I work only three more shifts at Hermann, and then it's time to get ready for Scott and White in Temple.