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The End Is Near…

Eliza — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:21:23 +0000

That’s right. the end of my externship is well within reach. In fact it’s this coming Monday! Well, of course that depends on the weather. It’s supposed to snow tomorrow and be icy throughout the weekend. If that’s the case, then I might not be able to make it to work on Monday and will have to go Tuesday. That’s ok. I enjoy it there.

One of the things that makes it enjoyable there is the compliments I get from the doctors, the patients, and even my colleagues. They are nice to me and they do give me advice that helps me do well in my job. Though they never asked me to join them for lunch That’s ok, I do like to use that time to talk to Jason. It’s one of the things I look forward to during the day…talk to my husband about how my day is going. I just feel I’m in the right field.

The doctor and I were talking about how I have been helping her out in the office. I mentioned that I feel like I’m doing something that helps the patients feel better and to help the doctors work more efficiently. She very much agreed! I understand that I don’t have to be a doctor in order to have an important role in the office, though I still do want to advance my career at some point. I am considering nurse or ultrasound technician. Either makes more money and both work with the patients which I found is my niche. I enjoy it, and I think I’m good at it.

For now, however, my interning will be over, and I am free to take my certification exam whenever I feel I’m comfortable taking it. I will not be pursuing a job, though, until I have had these babies. I need to settle down and relax a bit. I need to focus on my health and taking care of myself and the precious cargo I’mÂ carrying around. Once they ar born, I’ll be mothering them for a while. Once Jason has settled into his own routine and I have completed my self-determined maternity leave, I will go back to searching for a job. I may even consider auditing a class if I need to.

I will miss work. I got myself in to a working groove, and now it’s time to go back to not being busy. In some ways, I’m looking forward to that, but I’m jsut afraid that I’ll get too comfortable, and it’ll be harder to get myself back into work mode. I’ll do it. I need the money and I do like working.

Well here I am again…

Eliza — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:33:05 +0000

Yesterday I came home after my supervisor gave me a very questionable but good report on my weekly evaluation. I decided to call my career adviser from school about it. Turned out, my supervisor had just called and told her that she could not supervise me because she does not have the time to watch me. Also, on a funny coincidental note, a family practice office called looking for an intern to fill immediately. At the time I called, they had closed, but they are in a place I like to work and a practice I’m interested in working with. So, as luck may have it, I may have another place to work without worrying about taking time off.

Today, I got a call from the other career adviser and it seems the new place is very happy to take me in for the hours I want to work AND for the 4 weeks I have left to work. The Wednesday after Christmas, I am to arrive at 8:30am just to meet the doctors and the staff. I may be asked to start work that day, but no one is certain of that. I’ll be ready. It’s early as hell, but I’m serious about this job and I’m hoping to make an impression. I really didn’t want to work with kids, but they will be only some of the patients I see there. This practice treats families, which I think may be something I’m interested in. There will be some pregnant women there, of which I love working with, but there will also be men and children. The last place I worked at, mostly everyone was older in age. It’ll be a nice change of pace with people of all ages.

Wish me luck!

Change in Work Location

Eliza — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:51:01 +0000

Well, the time has come. This is my last week at the OB/GYN office. I shall be departing from where I currently work and transferring to a different office and field of medicine. I wanted to stay in the OB/GYN field but the next best place to work was an Internal Medicine place near by. Not that I have a problem with that. At first, I was worried, because people go to their primary care physicians because they feel sick. I have MS which makes me worried, but on the other hand, a lot of patients go to the doctor and aren’t contagious. They have a UTI, or a headache, or they cut themselves. It’s not necessarily because they have some contagious disease that is going to make me sick. Any office or place that I work in has people in it that can get me sick. Places I would have to worry about it more are hospitals and infectious disease medicine. It isn’t very common to come across someone with something that bad in any doctor’s office. Most people would go to the hospital if they felt that badly. I also won’t be in constant contact with anyone for too long…to the point I will most definitely catch what they have.

So starting Monday, I shall be a medical assistant in a small office for primary care physicians. The office technically has two physicians but usually there is only one there at a time while the other works at the other office. There is another student there currently from the school I went to. I wonder if I will recognize her. She started about the time I did. I don’t recognize her name though. My supervisor also went to my school about 2 years ago. It sounds like a nice place. I’m looking forward to it.

It was very nice for them to take me last minute. I was a little worried that I wouldn’t be able to find another place to finish my externship without having to take a break from school….which also sounded pretty nice to me! At least now I can focus on my goal to get my certification and become a full blown certified medical assistant!