My Fourth Year Elective Schedule

Here's what my tentative fourth year elective schedule looks like.

 

Block	Dates	Subject	Location
A	7/6-7/31/09	Cardiology	Queens Med
	7/30-8/1	FM National Conf	Kansas City, MO
B	8/3-8/28/09	Emergency	Castle Med
C	8/31-9/25/09	Family	Wahiawa
D	9/28-10/23/09	Family	? Mainland?
	10/26	Step 2 Clinical Skills	Los Angeles, CA
E	10/26-11/20/09	Neurology	? Queens?
F	11/23-12/18/09	Endocrinology	Honolulu
Winter break!	12/21-1/03/10	---Chillin'---	Hawaii
G	1/4-1/29/10	Rehab	Straub
H	2/1-2/26/10	Dermatology
I	3/1-3/26/10	Infectious dz	Tripler
Match day!	3rd Th in March	FAMILY MED!	?????OMG?????
J	3/29-4/23/10	Geriatrics	?
K	4/26-5/14/10	Senior seminars	JABSOM

 

Looks intense.  I'm very interested in being prepared for my field of choice (Family Medicine) and I've taken a lot of the electives that I know I won't get as much in depth in (namely Cards, Neuro, Endo Derm and ID.)  If I had more time, I would have done an elective in each organ system.  I know that screams out INTERNAL MEDICINE!!! but to be honest, I love kids and OB/GYN too much to give up those aspects of medicine.  My FM advisor talked me out of doing a Peds and OB/GYN outpatient elective ("You'll get that in your residency! Do something else!)

I'll also be tutoring the Life cycle unit in the second semester (blocks GHI) for the MS-2s.  I'm super excited about getting the opportunity to teach and mentor.  I've been tossing around an idea for a differential diagnosis research project that I want to run concurrent with the unit.