Anesthesia, week one.

[auraolaura]

I've pretty much gotten through the first week of anesthesia with no major bumps. I feel like things have gone pretty well and I'm trying my hardest to say the right thing, do the right thing, work hard enough, be enthusiastic, helpful, and interested. I'm so terrified of getting another bad review. I felt like I was doing and did well enough on

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[kushielsfire]

Maybe some strength training combined with your running? I am happy that you're training for a half, and I hope your knee cooperates!!! Just do what you're doing- take it easy and build a really good base before you start adding mileage. The distance comes more easily than the base.

*grin* oh yea, and make sure you post about it!!!

[auraolaura]

Yeah, I am doing strength once a week and cardio + strength on another day. Cardio is tonight, but it is also a strength workout as well, just fast-paced. I will definitely be sore afterwards, but it doesn't bother my knee. :-)

[auraolaura]

Admittedly, I don't feel TOO bad about it as it was on large animal surgery and I have no interest whatsoever in working on anything larger than an Irish Wolfhound ;-) And the fact that I got an A on outpatient, which is much closer to what I'll be doing in the future. It just kills me that the resident or the clinician didn't make it even REMOTELY obvious that I wasn't doing well over the two weeks at ANY time. Ugh.

I find anesthesia itself to be interesting. All of the different drug options and mixing them together to produce the desired effect is pretty neat. But if it's going well and it's just watching the iso flow, than there's nothing exciting about it.

[msubugvet]

That sucks that you didn't get any feedback from the profs on LA prior to getting your grade for the rotation. I know for our rotations we have a mid-rotation review in the 2nd week (of the 3 week rotations) where clinicians are supposed to tell you how you're doing and what you could improve on (if you're not doing so hot) over the last 1.5 weeks of the rotation. That is one thing I am concerned about for when I get on rotations in January (the subjectiveness of clinicians giving you grades on rotations). The fourth years I talked to at least said that they haven't heard of anyone failing a rotation (except for missing too many days due to illness or something else, but that makes sense). I'm glad to hear you did well in outpatient though.

And anesthesia monitoring is SOOOOO boring when it's unremarkable.