Lubbock-TWU students

alansmith52 · Jan 15, 2005

Quality I give a C

Quanitity ummm well depends on what,, general anesthesia an A+ CARDAIAC and NEURO a D

OB an B

regional and perpheral a C

by graduation I will probably do a 8 hundred cases.

as for my weekends I would say i have about 70% of them off.

I do take 4-7 call shifts per month and some are on weekends and some are not. ther is no rhyme or reason to it.

basically its like this. This is a finite time in your life. and you will work very, very hard. and you will do alot of anesthesia in the room by yourself and you will be ahead of those who are babied. you will learn how to get yourself into trouble and hopully get out of it.

it is a medicaly minded program. there are medical residents here. they are very nice to your face but rember that they come first. it can be aggravating. you just put out and take it up the A$$ untill its over and then move on. as for case mix. just remember an RRNA is very capable of doing absolutly any time of block or case at 1500 in the afternoon when its go home time, and if its the weekend your are gods gift to anesthesia in their minds.

in the beggining I had a bleeding ulcer becuase I was so stressed about being left alone in the OR but now, some cases are becoming more routiene and I welcome those days. I am still thrown into cases that are above my head, where its time to sind or swim and "holy crap how do I mix a levophed drip, I havn't done it since I worked in the ICU"

for the most part the surgeons are descent to work with, (lets face it your gonna have to work with mediciine) the attending anesthesiolgist are fair. Verdict still pending on the new director. he may or may not be favorable toward RRNA's hard to tell yet. the real problem comes from medical residents who belive their education comes before yours. who also belive that even though they are paid a salary you should take more call than them. who scoff at the thought of RRNA's taking the code pager and learning to do truama or emergent intubations in the ER.

problems like these are everywhere there is no perfect clinical site. my frient in california has some of these same problems. as for lubbock, I like it, some people don't. its not that small. heck there is a superwalmart what more could you want. he he. actually it really doesn't matter because you will be at the hosptial about 60- 70 hours per week. in the last two weeks I have had 4 fiber optic intubations, I have done 2 cranies, several prone cases and some art lines. I havn't gotten as much centeral line experice as i expected.

send me a privat message and I will call you.

the fact is .. the more RRNA's that come here the better it will be.

I was off at 1430 every day when we had everyone here. before we started roatating out.