2023-11-04 13:05:00
Getting lost in the hospital corridors is a factor to take into account for a medical student in training when calculating the time it takes to arrive each morning. Alejandro is in 4th grade, and despite it being his second year as an apprentice in the Ramón y Cajal University Hospitalhe became disoriented again on the floors of the building with his colleagues, repeating those difficulties he had already experienced.
3rd and 4th year Medicine students tell how their internships are going at the La Paz and Ramón y Cajal hospitals in Madrid.
Just a few streets away, Irene is more direct and asks for a map or even an ‘app’ on her mobile phone to help her find her way around the area. Hospital La Paz, where he has just started his first internship as a 3rd year student. She, like many of her colleagues at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) has ‘came out of his shell’ this year when he set foot in a health center for the first time as an apprentice in the specialty of Internal Medicine.
Patricia shares a course, specialty and practice hospital with her. Therefore, it has only been a couple of months since she learn from the medical team and has already experienced one or another anecdote in consultation. The first time she and her colleagues cared for a patient, their nerves played tricks on them and none of them decided to ‘break the ice’. “The situation was funny, but if I had been the patient, it wouldn’t have been funny,” she remembers with a laugh.
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3rd year Medicine students in internship at the La Paz Hospital.
Ariadna was another of the students who were in that consultation, and she agrees with the rest of the students that she was surprised the autonomy that their superiors give them: “They really trust that you have knowledge and judgment and They let us go on our own so that we can develop our ability to think“she explains. She also remembers another patient who did not put on a ‘good face’ when receiving her and her colleagues in consultation: “There was a patient who told us that the questions came to him ‘a little regular’ because it seemed that we were going to take time away from watching television,” he says.
“[Los tutores] “They trust that you have knowledge and criteria and they let us go on our own so that we can develop our ability to think.”
Medicine Practices: changes between 3rd and 4th
However, students in one year say that they have taken a ‘leap’ and that they notice that they enjoy greater independence in the hospital than last year. “I notice a change, especially in terms of knowledge, because in 3rd year, when you start the internship, it is true that you have not seen much of the general pathology and now in 4th year, since you have previously taken the exam, you do understand a lot more things,” explains Daniel Paglietti, who has just started his second year of internship at the Ramón y Cajal University Hospital.
They have also lived a personal change, They say, regarding the ‘attitude’ with which they entered the hospital for the first time last year: “Especially the security with which I arrived. It gives me less embarrassed talking to doctors, ask the nurses or whoever is in the room. And also dealing with patients, I feel safer talking to them,” says Laura Martín, a student in the same course as Daniel with whom she also shares an internship center.
Advice for 3rd year Medicine students
Daniel is clear about what he would say to his ‘self’ from last year to calm as much as possible the nerves he felt when starting his first internship: “Above all, it is very important to have confidence and not get frustrated if a service does not meet your expectations. “. Laura, for her part, remembers that He got dizzy the first time he entered the operating roomand a year later she tells herself and other students who may be in the same situation “to have a good breakfast in the morning and be mentally focused.”
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