Pass the scalpel.

Well Vacation certainly ended very quickly and now it's back to the daily grind.  I certainly didn't pick an easy rotation to get back to either.  We're all required a "sub-internship" here at Baylor before we graduate.  It's basically a rotation in a major area of medicine such as surgery, internal medicine, pediatrics, or family medicine, in which we're given more responsibility and pretty much act like interns.  We're allowed to pick one in any of the areas I mentioned above, just as long as we do one before we graduate.  I picked surgery--not because I'm going into surgery--but because people I know who have gone into Emergency Medicine have all recommended it very highly as far as helping me get the residency I would like. 

For anyone who doesn't know, surgery hours are long hours.  I usually get to the hospital at 5 in the morning and frequently don't leave until after 7pm in the evening, which doesn't include call  nights when I have to stay all night.  I often also have to work 6 days a week.  It's all a part of being a medical student though, and usually the days are pretty fun and go by quickly.  Some of it is a lot of paperwork, but as a sub-I, I actually get to scrub in and help out with a lot of the surgical cases as well.  So despite the long  hours, the month should go by pretty quickly, and maybe actually be a little fun as well.