I am now finished with my 12 week family practice rotation. I am constantly amazed at how fast things have gone since I started PA school. It is amazing to look back and see how much I understand and how much medical knowledge I can recall. I still have so much to learn and experience, but I am excited to end the last portion of my PA school journey and start working!
A brief overview of my last little bit of my Family Practice rotation:
I saw a case of shingles:
I also saw a patient with Bell's Palsy:
This is a picture I found on google of an individual with Bell's Palsy. Notice how the left side of his face is completely paralyzed, including his forehead showing that this is not a stroke, but a palsy of the fifth cranial nerve (trigeminal nerve).
I also got to manage patients with hypertension, Diabetes, hyper/hypo thyroid and chronic pain just to name a few.
My youngest patient was 7 days old and my oldest patient was 91 years old. This was the great part about family practice, you get to see a variety of patients and diseases.
Next rotation is Surgery, which I am very excited about! I have not had the opportunity to scrub in on a surgery as of yet, but I am sure I will love it. As always I will keep the blog up to date with my experiences.
I've done an ortho rotation and am in the middle of my general surgery rotation. Ortho was great, general is interesting as well. Once you've been in on a few, everything becomes second nature. You'll enjoy it!
ReplyDeleteHow many rotations and months do you have left until you graduate?
ReplyDeleteI have 4 rotations left and 7 months until I graduate (August 2014).
ReplyDeleteBrian, I am only 4 days in and I am loving it! I have scrubbed in on 7 cases now and I am really enjoying it a lot. I will blog all about it soon.
Wow you have quite long rotations. I have 8 months till graduation still in family for another 2 months and have 6 core rotations and 2 elective rotations left. A long way to go...
ReplyDeleteHi DJ,
ReplyDeleteWOW you are almost done, I can not believe it. How has your clinicals been going so far? Have you been studying for the PANCE? Which clinicals have you enjoyed?
Take care,
Sandra
Hey Sandy! Yeah its happening so quickly. I'm finishing my ER rotation this week and I only have 3 more rotations left until graduation! I'm always studying for the PANCE, I have finals that I am studying for also. I have enjoyed all of my rotations, but I really liked surgery and emergency medicine.
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