Good Question. Wow, it's been some time since I blogged. Amazingly, I'm still alive. I've done Medical Intensive Care Unit and Critical Cardiac Unit rotations and Endocrine (which is quite appealing to apply to as a future job, but so were all the other sub-specialties I have done thus making it not a special thing). Anyhow, just got back from the Islands and now embarking on my 2nd round of Intesive Care Unit rotation. So far I have to say that I'm one of the slowest seniors ever. I guess my time on the islands have caused me to "slow down and enjoy life." I realized I need to enjoy the time I have. One of the new developments in my life is that my grandmother has been out of the home for about 1 month now as she fell and fractured her hip requiring physical therapy. Luckily, I was able to spend time with my grandmother and even saw her play with my son and put on a big smile on her face. Made my vacation great. Side note, talking about my family, my baby has 2 more teeth now, making the grand total to 4 teethies! Woohoo! K, back to the blog. I guess all this thought of slowing down has caused me to think about my future career plans. After talking with various peeps in Hawaii, I was able to obtain... 1, yes only one, contact name for job. I was given names of doctors, but they were all family medicine doctors and for some reason people think Internal Medicine and Family Medicine are the same. They are quite the opposite, but related. Any how more on that later. Another idea has been bugging me was to do a "chief" year, and rule a chief-dom. Ah, thoughts of grandeur arise in my tiny brain... But alas, I want to do what's best for my family. This past week I found out I have been "nominated" for the position, sure it's 2 years away (technically 1 1/2 years, but who's counting?), but it's a thought. Then I've been told as much that I'm the "Best Resident in the World" by certain un-named administrator. I have been interacting and giving tours to interested residency applicants this season; and I found several letters and emails that have thanked me and "short of giving myself a Big Head" stated that I made their visit to my residency program great and now they were ranking the program higher. One thing I'm sure is that the program would likely benefit from me staying, which is surprising seeing that I basically scrambled from March to June and no other residency program wanted me or even interviewed me. Talk about rising from the ashes like a pheonix. 
What to do? What to do? Aloha world... p.s. in case you might be wondering what a chief resident does... A Chief Resident is appointed by his or her Director and is generally in his or her final year of residency (e.g., surgery) or is working for an additional year after residency is completed (e.g., internal medicine and pediatrics). Some post-graduate training programs require that each resident serve as Chief Resident in the last or next to last year of training. The Director may give the title of Chief Resident to as many residents in his or her program as perform Chief Resident duties. Such duties frequently include: - supervising and training junior residents;
- developing rotation, conference, journal club, lecture, and on-call schedules;
- acting as a resident liaison;
- providing formal medical student education;
- monitoring and recording attendance;
- reassigning residents as necessary for coverage issues when unplanned absences occur (due to illness, etc.);
- making decisions on behalf of his or her department; and
- performing other administrative duties as assigned by his or her Director of Residency Training (“Director”).
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