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• Dress professionally. Men should
wear a dress shirt and tie. Women should wear skirts or slacks.
• Bring a watch with second hands for taking vital signs.
• Do not carry any valuables to work, but do bring a sweater,
water, a snack (non-perishable) and something useful to read
since you will have little or no control of your time (and should
expect that).
• Stock up on clean underwear, and snacks since you will
not have time to do laundry often, nor to shop.
• If you can fit exercise into your schedule, this is
a good way to help manage stress levels, and also will create
a foundation for a healthy lifestyle.
• Since you are paying a lot of tuition dollars, treat
this year as a total immersion experience. While we encourage
students to be well-rounded, remember that your third year clerkships
will take priority. And remember “Murphy’s Law”
- planning to engage in some social activity (especially during
the week) is a sure-fire way of ensuring that your patient will
crash just when you were hoping to leave the hospital and sets
you up for unnecessary stress ("do I stay or should I leave?")
• You can learn something from every experience, even
if you don’t agree with the way a person is handling a
situation. Remember, you can figure out what type of physician
you are going to be from all types- those whose actions you
want to emulate and those you don’t (i.e. “what
not to do!). You should be like a sponge soaking up everything
that's going on around you, so you will become a conglomerate
of acquired behaviors gleaned from what you see working well
between doctors and patients, other doctors, students, nurses,
other hospital personnel and family members and rejecting that
which does not.
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