Wow, 6 weeks into this rotation, all I have to say, I LOVE SURGERY!!! I get to scrub on Plastics, ENT, Vascular, Thoracic cases daily, in addition to Gen surg stuff of all sorts, not just lap choles (students can go to the pig lab and practice lap choles, sternotomies, etc themselves, and to Yale to practice on the lap simulator!) Some of my fellow students have scrubbed on cardiac cases (CABG mostly), neurosurg, and Ophtho cases. Then on call my beeper goes off all night for trauma alerts, some flown in by helicopter. Yeahhhhhh! On my second call (q4) I scrubbed on an emergency craniotomy in the middle of the night for a guy with an acute subdural. Motorcycle helmets are not required in this state I guess, so you see lots of motorcycle (donorcycles as theyre called here) head trauma, and since its warming up now, more and more and more. Wow, how can anyone NOT do surgery?!?!?

Ok gotta be in at 430 so off to sleep.

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Ross University School of Medicine, MS4

Step 1: 260/99
Step 2CK: 236/98

Plastic/Reconstructive or Trauma Surgery, are you ready?