I am a registrar, or RMO, for rural hospital medicine. I don't know how much this tells you. A registrar is a doctor after graduation and heading for a certain speciality status – usually after the first two years of work as an SHO, I believe. The SHO, “senior house officer”, comes lowest in the hierarchy, then the RMO, and then the consultant (the specialist).
I am supposed to do a mix of work in the emergengy department, on the ward, in theatre, and performing ETT (exercise tolerance tests).
I am wanting to acquire a few more skills around managing emergencies and to be able maybe to work in a rural hospital environment again as a locum, e.g. overseas. This is why I have done this step back from my GP work.
I have largely recovered from my ankle
injury now, working half days for the first two weeks and then full
time. Until now, in my first week, I have only worked on the
rehabilitation ward, with patients recovering from fractures and
strokes under physiotherapy and occupational therapy.
It feels like a plunge into cold water
without being able to swim properly. Everyone is nice but busy with
their own stuff and rarely someone explains me anything in a
systematic way. I have to figure out most things on my own, expected
to continue the work of my predecessor who left just before I came.
What I have to do I mostly learn by reading in the patient charts,
observing the consultant when she does her ward round twice weekly
and asking the SHO on ward (who is also quite new).
The other day I dropped something
during the ward round, a chart or so, and she said with a smile: “you
are fired”. I laughed and responded “I thought so” because that
is just what went through my head....
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