My pediatric rotation

I just finished my pediatric rotation and thought that I should write a little about my experience.

Pediatrics was great. It was so cool to go to deliveries and see how the babies turn from blue to pink and to be able to warm them up. It was sad to see babies going to bad situations and feeling helpless. Watching circumcisions was a little traumatic though. Out patient peds was fun besides having malaria at the time. I think that it would be pretty cool to see kids grow up. A lot of the visits were healthy kids and making sure they were alright which was good. I spent a couple of days with oncology and got to do some lumbar punctures which was pretty fun also. I was nervous but I think that procedures could be good to do. I really liked inpatient pediatrics and following families day after day and seeing the progression of their health.

Embarrassing moments:
My attending physician has a reputation for being strict and giving poor evaluations to both students and residents. I actually really enjoyed his teaching. When I went in for my evaluation I tried to convey this. I said "I really like that you tell us what we did wrong after every presentation....you are not like those nice doctors that say you did a good job." He immediately replied asking me if I thought that he didn't give any positive feed back. I told him that we were all happy with him. Never the less, the next day he brought a bowl full of candy for us.

Our last day, because our attending only wears bow ties, we all dressed up with bow ties. It was pretty funny and quite a sight to see us following him around dressed like him and we received plenty of comments.