Preparing for my Hospitalized Adult Care clerkship

My Hospitalized Adult Care (HAC) clerkship starts on Monday. I will be spending the first month at Presbyterian Saint Luke's and the second month at Denver Health.

Whereas during my Adult Ambulatory Care and Rural Community Care clerkships I was essentially working one-on-one with a primary care doctor, I will now be working as part of a team. At PSL, the Internal Medicine department has four separate teams, which means that I'll be working alongside three of my classmates, each one of us on a different team. For the first two weeks at PSL, I'll also have a sub-intern (i.e. a fourth-year medical student) on my team, which I'm happy about since he could provide one more layer of mentorship. The team also includes two interns, a resident, and of course an attending physician; the latter two will rotate out halfway through my clerkship.

I bought two textbooks for this rotation: Internal Medicine Essentials for Clerkship Students 2 and Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program for Students 4. IMECS is a true textbook, while MKSAP provides clinically-based questions that are meant to be completed alongside the text. Having read the table of contents and flipped through both of them briefly, they look like they will be very useful. The IMECS chapters are short enough that I could easily knock one off just by reading 15 minutes here or there when I have some free time.

As for now, though, I'm trying to squeeze as much relaxation as possible out of this weekend since I don't expect to have much time for such luxury once HAC begins.