KEVIN: *blows dust off blogging keyboard*

A few of us have completed our very first clinical rotation of the new curriculum. Rotations are set up in two-month blocks; the “big” ones take up all eight weeks of the block, while the “smaller” ones are combined. For example, Medicine is eight weeks long, while Radiology’s two weeks are combined with Psychiatry’s six weeks. This makes sense for organizational reasons — everyone will be on a new rotation every eight weeks.

Having just completed my Radiology rotation, I actually learned some useful skills that should help me during my “big” rotations. I appreciated not having to study nearly as much as I did during, say, Step One. (Which, by the way, did not suffer any worse scores from our class, if whisperings are to be believed. But you didn’t hear it from me.) One of the residents I followed during my rotation graciously dug up an old case of situs inversus, which Scrubs fans will immediately recognize.

Two weeks was not nearly enough time to confirm Radiology as a future career choice, but it did allow many of us to rule out Radiology as such. In any case, I think most of us are excited about seeing patients than reading chest X-rays, so next week’s Psych rotation should be a lot of fun.

As a non sequitur, here is a picture of the White House that I took during Inauguration Day