Thursday, December 1, 2011

Last Day







-Walt Whitman

Indeed, Mr. Whitman, some great lessons...


Old MD Girl said...

Wait, if you're done with inpatient, when do you do Ob/Gyn stuff or inpatient peds?

Anonymous said...

Ugh. That's frustrating. Any chance of just contacting the preceptor directly and working with them that way?

In any event, congrats on being halfways done third year! It's amazing how quickly things pass here in medicine.

Liana said...

If your problem at Dal is that they couldn't find you a preceptor, I could try to find someone for you. Can't guarantee it would be in the specialty you want but a fair number of people in my class ended up doing residency and are now attendings there...

scott said...

Why is a North American residency so important for you? If you went abroad for med school--and apparently like Ireland--what do you have against staying abroad for residency?

Albinoblackbear said...

OMDG--We don't do ob/gyn or peds until 4th year (after CaRMS is submitted) which is why I am desperate to get some gyne time during my holidays.

IANH + Liana--My contact at Dal is the head of his department but the electives are dolled out via centralized application system. So even though he has been trying like hell to give me an elective there the admin people basically nixed it because all of the school's "allocated spots" are full. But thank you Liana for offering to help!

Seems that contacts in medicine are now seen as a 'back door' no no. :/

Scott--Mainly because N.A postgrad training is structured in a much more efficient way (i.e there is no such thing as 'residency-->attending' in Ireland.)

Plus I am a Canadian, I want to live in Canada (or the US) and be close to my little nieces and nephews, my siblings, my one surviving parent, and my boyfriend. I am in Ireland because Canada didn't want me, not because I didn't want Canada.