11/4/2018 0 Comments Reflective Journal #10My favorite part of clinical experience this fall has definitely been my rotation with Dr. Handy. Over the course of the athletic training program and its classes, I have found that I am particularly interested in the general medicine portion of what we do. For me, gen med is like a big puzzle - I ask questions to get all of the pieces, and then when I have all the pieces of the puzzle then I can figure out what the puzzle actually makes. I don’t get as much experience with general medicine in the athletic training program, so it was very exciting to me to be able to get 20 hours full of clinical experience that was flooded with general medicine.
This is especially exciting and meaningful to me because it gives me a glimpse into my future. Sometimes I struggle with spending so much time in the athletic training clinic because I sometimes spend whole days doing things I’m not AS passionate about, even though I still take pride in what I do there. However, spending hours upon hours and staying late in the clinic with Dr. Handy was never a struggle for me. I was constantly wondering what was going to be in the next room, writing down different medications and what they do, trying to fit the pieces of the puzzle together for each individual patient, and even at one point, getting moved to tears by a patient suffering from Parkinson’s Disease. I loved that Dr. Handy allowed me to participate in auscultation in most of his patients, and he always asked me what I heard which allowed me to try to work through all the different sounds and the knowledge that I had to put the heart sounds together with the conditions that I knew. It seems like such a small aspect of the whole evaluation, but it was so exciting for me. Looking back on all of my rotations, they have helped me navigate where my passions are and where they do not. I loved being in the emergency room and experiencing the energy that constantly was flowing during that rotation, especially when running down the halls when the nurse I was shadowing was called for a code blue. I being in family practice with Dr. Handy and experiencing something different in each room that I walked into. But on the other hand, I did not at all enjoy my rotation in the wound care clinic, not because it wasn’t interesting, but because I couldn’t stomach it. Additionally, I thought I was going to fall in love with the PT clinic, but I was surprised when I didn’t have the spark I thought I would have for it. All of these experiences have continually affirmed me that I am headed in the right direction for my future career.
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