OB/GYN at SISTERS
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So I'm done with my 6 weeks at Sisters. For OB/GYN here's how it works. 8 people go to Children's, 8 go to Suburban for the first 3 weeks and then you switch. However, if there are more than 16 people, the remainder go to Sisters. You'll pick out of a hat. Also once you pick, you can switch sites and partners. My group had 17 people. You can also volunteer to go to Sisters. I volunteered to go because I didn't mind working by myself and other people didn't seem to want to. But you're not really alone because there are students from NYCOM and LECOM there.
SCHEDULE:
4 things to rotate through. These are M-F.
1. OB days (Labor and Delivery) which is 6am - 6pm
2. OB nights (L & D) 5pm - 8am
3. GYN days 6am - 6pm
4. L&D and Clinic - 6am-6pm
Then there are two 26 hr (6am - 8am) weekend calls (shifts really) in L&D.
PROS:
- Stay at 1 place for 6 weeks, get comfortable with the way things are run.
- Get to know the 8 residents really well. They were all very nice and friendly. I would say stick with the Chief or 3rd yrs because they know more, been doing it longer, will let you do more. The interns (esp them since they started when I started) and 2nd yrs are still learning.
- On call rooms where you can sleep.
- Get the 60-70 hr weeks out of the way first. i have surgery last - thats going to suck, Oh well. Got used to waking up at 5am - no traffic =)
- Free parking
CONS:
- The coordinator doesn't really know what's going on with you/ your schedule.
- Kind of isolated so you tend to forget about things.
- There's only 1 attending thats officially assigned to you. Could be good or bad. I didn't really get a chance to work with him.
- Cafeteria sucks. No food after 7pm.
- Had 5 wks of OB, 1 wk of GYN basically.
- Go to Sisters at 6am on Wed, then leave at 7:30am in the middle of rounds to go to lectures at Childrens. Then you fall asleep during 8-10am lectures (which are actually for the most part good lectures).
- Waking up at 5am.
- We have to fill out a yellow sheet with specific things we need to see and get signed. It's like a scavenger hunt thing. Kind of annoying and easy to forget about.
- Also the UBMM but thats for all rotations.
All in all I liked that Ob was generally a happy occasion (babies are a good thing usually) and it's a mixture of surgery and medicine. I would consider doing it if it weren't for the long hours (babies are born 24 hrs) and the beeper. It's also somewhat repetitive but then again all the specialties are and you need that to become good at something.
In my last week, I got to deliver a baby with a resident assisting me - that was cool! And got to suture a c-section pt and staple =) It was a good way to end my rotation.
