Sunday, June 3, 2012

Medicine sub-internship at Denver Health

I start my Internal Medicine sub-internship tomorrow morning. I decided to do my medicine sub-internship at Denver Health for two main reasons:

First, as a county hospital, Denver Health is the safety net for disadvantaged people who have slipped through the cracks of our broken healthcare system. Such a patient population almost by definition includes a high proportion of people with drug addictions, cognitive impairment, psychotic illnesses, and many other psychiatric comorbidities.

Second, since I also completed my psychiatry sub-internship at Denver Health, this will allow me to more directly compare my psychiatry and medicine sub-internship experiences. Will I enjoy this medicine sub-internship as much as I enjoyed psychiatry? How will this medicine sub-internship influence my feelings about applying to combined medicine/psychiatry residency programs?

While I expect that my plans won't change much as a result of my medicine sub-internship, the possibility remains that two months of back-to-back psychiatry and medicine may clarify which field I'm more passionate about.

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