Pediatrics

How appropriate that my rotation following obstetrics is pediatric anesthesia. We provide anesthesia for a wide variety of cases, from healthy kids getting their tonsils out to emergency appendectomies to complicated patients with congenital syndromes requiring multiple procedures. For the most part, second year residents don't cover neonates, neurologic surgeries, and cardiac surgeries. Despite that, It's been really busy with a high volume; most of my noncall days are 14 hours long and exhausting. Nevertheless, it's been pretty fun working with children again since the last time I saw kids in a clinical setting was my third year medical student rotation on pediatrics. The attendings are outstanding, but because of the volume, most of the learning is on-the-fly.