There is hope

So, I haven't talked much about my clerkship rotation yet, right... Well, it was because I was very unhappy with some of it and wanted to wait until I felt less sour about it.

As I mentioned before, our clerkship rotations are assigned by lottery*. And as I also mentioned before, I do not believe in lottery. Well, again, it showed that I was right not to trust lottery. Except for the track, I didn't get any of the choices I wanted. You know, it doesn't matter that much, because I will go through my clerkship anyway, and become a good physician. But still, I feel a little disappointed. I understand that, at this point in my training, the most important thing is keeping an open mind and try different thing. But our clerkship is so short, we do not have the time to try all we are interested in, therefore the insatisfaction (which again, I understand is very much first-world privilege person problem). I didn't get either rheumatology, nor infectious disease or hematology, but I got respirology, which I think is a very broad base specialty that could be very useful if you do any kind of specialty. So not too bad. I also got neonatology as a pediatric specialty and gastroenterology. Definitively not my first choices (more like my 10th choices), but I could have done worse I suppose.

All these choices were not my major issue. You see, as a student of a delocalised site, we have to do at least 4 rotations at the main site (which is 4 hours drive). Not optimal when you have a 8 years old Princess, So, I tried (and succeeded) to separate rotation away with rotation at home. But then, I got a rotation at another site 8 hours away, at the end of school year for Princess. Nothing impossible, but certainly not optimal in a very important school year for her (the report for this year is going to be used for her application in a dance program that she had been talking about for the last two years). That is what I was trying to avoid, trying to do whatever I could before the lottery. So, I went back to the program director, and I have to say, she did the work. I had news last Friday that I might probably be able to do my rotation home. I try not to be too positive about it, because I know it might not work (I will know in about a month), but it would make my life sooo much easier! So, please make it work!!!

*Well, except for elective at the beginning of our clerkship, for which I went the personal representation route, and I am very happy I did! I got endocrinology, family medicine with my mentor I talked about previously, which will be tailored to whatever I want to see (as feasible as that could be), and chronic pain/anesthesiology with the regional pain specialist. I am very lucky!