One month of residency is already down. Granted it was orientation, which was a great way to get to know some of my fellow residents and get settled into my new home. Now reality begins. "Hello - 80hr work week." Actually I'm pretty lucky in that I start off with 2 relatively light rotations. For the next 3 weeks I'll be spending my time in the Emergency Department. It's a great place for me to start, because I know all of Sief's co-residents who are many of the people that I will be working with.
This past weekend, I went to the National Family Medicine Residency Conference in Kansas City that I have gone to for the past 3 years. This year I was on the other side of things trying to recruit applicants to my program. It was exciting, because this year there was an increase in the number of students in attendance. I'm hoping for another big match year for family medicine. It looks like their may be a shift back to family medicine and maybe away from the specialties?
On my way back from KC, I looked over a tourist guide that Kevin (a co-resident of mine) brought along for students to look at and now I have a huge list of things I plan to do while in Tucson.
- Biosphere 2
- See the Sonoran Desert
- Ski Mt. Lemmon (mountain about 45 mins from Tucson that is 8,000+ ft in elevation and at the top it doesn't feel like you're in arizona anymore - I took a drive up there last weekend, but sadly left my camera at home)
- Hot air balloon festival
- Desert museum
- Kit Peak Observatory
- Scavenger Dash around the city
- golf? (i threw that in for my parents :)
- and so much more!
Come visit (well actually wait a little while longer until I have a bed in my spare room, unless you don't mind sleeping on an air mattress) - there's tons to do!
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