“So, what exactly do you do on internal medicine?” I’ve gotten this question a fair amount of times. The surgeons do surgery, and the family practitioners see patients in clinic, so what do IM doctors do all day? To clear things up, here’s a typical day on the medicine wards. 7am: Start the day off […]
A Day in the Life of Internal Medicine Part II- Formal Rounding
After we’re finished visiting our patients the entire team meets again to review all of the patients together before formal rounding begins. Formal rounding is when we go around to each patient with the attending physicians, and discuss pertinent details about each case with them. The attendings always bestows some useful information regarding each patient’s […]
A Day in the Life of Internal Medicine Part I- AM Rounding
I just completed my first week in Internal Medicine. While the days are long, the early mornings are definitely worth all of the experience gained. For those of you who are interested, I’m just going to discuss what an average day is like for the students and residents rotating through internal med. Typically the day […]
