At my institution, we have off-service interns from other departments, who rotate through our labor and delivery unit to learn about labor management. During the day, the OB intern is in charge of labor (including primary c-sections during the second part of the year), triage, and postpartum. The upper-level OB resident (PGY-3 or PGY-4) is in charge of the antepartum service, consults, repeat
» Read moreAs a generally curious and inquisitive person, I tend to ask a lot of questions. The learning curve as an intern in steep, and time to read and research is often limited. It’s hard to find the answers that you need quickly, and you have a to-do list at least a mile long. As a new intern, I fell into
» Read moreSometimes, people ask me what it’s like to be an OB/GYN resident. Well, here is an idea of what a typical night shift looks like: half a dozen patient calls (mostly from people who are having round ligament pain, or who peed on themselves when they sneezed and now they think their water broke) three patients in triage with the complaints
» Read moreHere is my latest project – the military residency wiki. As a student, I felt like I didn’t learn what I really wanted to know about the military residencies until it was too late. To help other students, I decided to create the military residency wiki, to create a resource for military residency applicants. I’m trying to create pages on
» Read moreThe 2015 main residency match was an adventure. At my school at least, it was different from previous years. It was more competitive. People were matching farther down their rank lists, and a frightening number didn’t match at all. Why is this? I think it all comes down to numbers, and the “residency crunch” that my class has been
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