When I heard my fourth-year sub-internship was going to be in Cardiology, I was extremely intimidated, as most students who had rotated through Cardiology were. Cardiology is such an intricate and complex subject that I felt I never mastered, and it didn’t help that I still felt less than subpar in my EKG reading skills. […]
Being an Intern: The SubI Life
I just finished a month of my subi, where I basically act as an intern on the medicine floors. Another medical student and I are supervised by a PGY3. I was responsible for up to 5 patients at a time. I wrote their H&Ps, wrote their progress notes, and presented to the attendings. On top […]
Being the Acting Intern/Sub-I
One of my fourth year requirements is to complete a sub-internship in the specialty of my choice. At my school, I chose to do this rotation at an affiliated nearby community hospital with its own family medicine residency program, since my school technically doesn’t have a family medicine residency program located at the academic teaching […]
