✨M3/4 TRAUMA SURGERY FAST FACTS✨
Unsurprisingly, I have been having the best experience on my home trauma surgery rotation. While I will always continue to learn, here is a thread of some trauma pearls for my M3/4 followers I have picked up over the past couple years!
Well everyone, my bubble has been burst...
While doing chart reviews, it was just brought to my attention that it is spelled "bair" hugger and not "bear" hugger. I really thought it was like a "bear hug" to keep patients warm.
I will eventually recover from this realization😂
Today marks 2 until ⬇️👀🎓
So leading up to then I’ll be highlighting some of the greatest parts and people who got me though this 🎢
(I’ll add them below here as a 🧵to keep them together 🙂)
One week s/p Match Day and the excitement is only growing 💙🩵
*Thanks to my amazing village for all of the love and support this past week, my appreciation for you all is endless — my success is equally yours*
Hi MedTwitter (Specifically incoming M3s!),
@PonziniF
and I put together a thread with tips about how you can crush your surgery clerkship.
Note: we can only speak to our experience as students who just went through their M3 year. Keep in mind expectations at your school.
🧵
ERAS is certified/submitted and programs have been applied to✅
#gensurgmatch2024
(Thank you,
@GamerEMDoc
for the final motivating push to hit the certify/submit button and to
@PonziniF
for the support this morning!)
While I’m still editing my ERAS application (and will likely review it up a lot until I submit lol), things are quickly coming together and I’m super grateful for every LOR writer, mentor, family member, and friend who has and continues to support me 🙂
#gensurgmatch2024
#gotime
And that ties up block 1 of residency where we covered it all from general surgery and bariatrics to breast and surg onc! ✨
It was quite the learning experience and couldn’t have asked for a better group of co-residents to do it with!
Next stop: SICU 🤩
Delayed post, but excited to now be a member of
@east_trauma
! Can’t wait to keep meeting so many great people and to continue to learn!
Hotel booked for January ✅
#ILookLikeASurgeon
✨🚑
Big thank you to all who made my 2
@rwjms
distinctions in
#bioethics
and
#medicalhumanities
(unpictured) possible over the last 4 years. Both are areas important to me as I begin my surgical career✍️
Special thank you to
@eric_facs
for all of your support!
8/2022 (left): First day of my surgery clerkship which was on the colorectal service🤓
Vs.
8/2023 (right): First day of my
@rwjsurgery
sub-I on the colorectal service🤩
Very excited for the next 4 weeks and all there is to learn!
#ilooklikeasurgeon
🔪
#gensurgmatch2024
And that’s a wrap on my first sub-I🔪
Thank you
@rwjsurgery
for further confirming that I absolutely made the right specialty choice for me! ❤️🖤
I can’t wait to continue reading, learning, and doing as I progress through the upcoming
#gensurgmatch2024
season and beyond 🙂
Excited to share the publication of my first publication in AJEM!
@ELS_Emerg_Med
The word “quiet” was not associated with increased patient volumes or perception of increased patient volumes unless staff had a pre-existing belief the word matters.
✨Announcement Time✨
I’m super excited to share that I will be joining the
@WorldJSurg
Story and Design team in their new initiative creating video capsules for published manuscripts 🎥✍️
Here is my first one ⬇️
The development of delayed pseudoaneurysms after high-grade solid organ injury is something all trauma surgeons wish to avoid.
@Jengeller1
's video capsule explores a paper we recently published that explores this problem ✨
Thank you
@JPSMjournal
for allowing me to share one of the most impactful experiences of my M3 year from my palliative care rotation
It was a privilege to play a role in this patient’s journey alongside the
@rwjuh
medicine and
@rwjsurgery
thoracic teams
Had a great time at tonight’s Rutgers Health Simulation showcase! It was fantastic learning about how sim is used as a tool across all health professions and from
@SurgEdMD
about how SCARLET will harness the capacity simulation has in inter-professional education
#meded
✨Publication✨
So full circle to see our case report from my sub-I
@JeffHealthAb
as I start on the floors today
@JEFFsurgery
! We are excited to share our management of a GIST on the remnant stomach in a patient post op from a RYGB ⬇️
Had the pleasure of participating in the annual
@RWJMS
M4 post-match roundtable. It was a priveledge to speak with M1-3s about applying to general surgery residency and our journeys through med school!
Thank you
@rwjsurgery
for supporting us❤️🖤
📸
@Sorasicha_N
Placed my first central and A lines, worked up to following all the patients on our list, and field tripped to acquire department staff birthday cakes🍰
Thanks to those who made my ICU rotation
@RWJSomerset
an educational first block of M4!
@beccaalev
@wawek_kp
@rwjms
There is no such thing as Sunday scaries when you are at a coffee shop working on a trauma surgery manuscript, doing trauma surgery work with
@charoo_piplani
, and getting ready for a 7-week stretch of trauma surgery 🥰
Shoutout to
@RWJMS
M2 Richa Dahake for presenting our project identifying that OT Cognitive assessment for mTBI is associated with longer hospital stays, and future work needs to focus on who will benefit from consultation at
#ASC2024
We are cheering on from afar! 🧠✨
Serving as one of the Editors-in-Chief for
@InTrainingDoc
this year has been one of the most rewarding experiences in med school, and I am so proud of our growth this past year📝
Don't miss this opportunity to help medical students from around the world share their stories✍️✨
✨Med Students✨
It's that time of year already, we are accepting applications for next year's Editors-in-Chief and Managing Editors! As the peer-reviewed med student publication that has published over 2,000 articles since 2013, you can join our team!
Thank you
@PalliativeMed_j
for the chance to share my most recent
#narrativemedicine
piece reflecting on time in the ICU. While we seek to put ourselves in the shoes of patients and families, emotions are complex and sometimes the best we can do is listen
Congratulations to the (the reason I had to say "no, I go to the other
@RutgersU
Med School" many times on interviews😂)
@Rutgers_NJMS
graduates on their graduation this AM!
Esp my 2 incoming
@JEFFsurgery
co-rezzies Dr. Caceda and Dr. Lescott (
@caralescott
)
#RURAHRAH
❤️
Ecstatic to be starting as an
@InTrainingDoc
Managing Editor! I’ve enjoyed the editing I’ve done over the past several months look forward to starting in this new role! 🤩
@LaurenHolladay4
I took 7 weeks to study for step 2, at which time I spent 2 days for each clinical topic (peds, surgery, OB), and then 4 for IM since it is the bulk of it and it was my first rotation.
I did 2 40-random blocks each day. Then 1- clerkship specific 40-block.
As my time in San Diego comes to a close (dedicated for step 1 awaits), I just wanted to share how grateful I am for such a great weekend with my new
@emresidents
#MSC
crew and for the chance to meet so many students, residents, and attendings! Looking forward to all to come!
Super great helping to give the
@rwjms
M1s their lecture on End-of-Life care and advanced care planning again this year! Super grateful for the chance to keep working with the one and only
@LaryssaPatti
(as well as Dr. Mathew and the whole Physicianship team) each year on this😊
Thank you
@KelseyMorgan23
for this photo, because it was probably one of the best from the weekend.
Super proud of the work we put in to putting forward resolutions regarding homelessness in our patient populations, applying for away rotations, and gun violence in EDs.
Officially Francesca M. Ponzini, MD!!!
thank you to my village of mentors, family, and friends without you none of this would be possible. I am so grateful every single day.
next stop: general surgery residency 🤩
Disclosing conflicts of interest when submitting manuscripts is so important in the publication process! 📝
Check out our video capsule for
@WorldJSurg
’s recent publication✨
Surgeon-industry collaboration is helpful in advancing surgical technology - but disclosing conflicts of interest is key🔑
How thorough are surgeons at making disclosures?
@Jengeller1
explores our new article.
@sherrywren
@WileyHealth
It was so nice meeting you
@ricardo_nunezr
! So glad we got to spend time on the
@rwjsurgery
trauma service together and on call
Watch out surgery world for this rock star!🎉
Glad to share that I just finished my sub-I in the Division of Acute Care Surgery at
@RWJUH
. Special thanks to
@DrJosephSHanna
and Dr.
@gabrielcirugia
for making this possible. It was great to meet an amazing team of residents who made me feel part of every team!
Ecstatic to now be a part of
@ajs_stars
✨
We are excited to share our event featuring
@pferrada1
from
@InovaHealth
on the roses and thorns of academic surgery while she shares her journey!👩🔬