What to Expect During Your Residency at CDU with Yomi

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Once you get to the resident level, it's really the same format as your last two years of medical school, but with higher expectations for you because now you're actually a doctor, um a first year resident like myself is called an intern. Um The interns role is of course just like you did in medical school, you're seeing patients, right? You're going through and getting a history from each patient. You're doing physical examination and then you're generating an assessment and plan. You still have senior residents and attending physicians who are helping you to formulate your ideas about patients and, you know, if a patient is particularly difficult helping you to come up with an adequate plan. So you're actually responsible for doing things like putting in orders for medications, um for scheduling a patient for, you know, for a follow up or recommending them to to see a specialist. These are things that the responsibility level sort of increases as you go through residency and your skills increase as a family medicine residents in particular. Uh I rotate through many different services, everything from pediatrics to obstetrics and gynecology. We rotate through other things like orthopedics, outpatient orthopedics clinics. Um and of course we have our our family medicine clinic, right? Our regular clinical patients. Family medicine is a specialty where we are people's primary doctor. So I'm people's doctor doctor, right? I'm the doctor who they see for regular checkups and I'm the first person usually who they go to for problems that may need uh subsequently to be referred to a specialist and I'm the doctor who's in charge of coordinating all of that care. You know, a general overview of of you know, what you can expect as a resident. There is still an academic component um to become fully licensed as a physician in the United States, you have to pass um each of what are called step exams for the U. S. M. L. E. Um there's step one and two that you'll take as a medical student and then step three, which most people take during their first year of residency for every specialty in medicine. There are also specialty based exams that you'll be expected to do throughout your residency. Um So there is that academic component as well, and I still do study sometimes late night after seeing patients in the hospital or clinic, so that's a general overview of what I do.