CMing

Going to take a quick break from studying physio to write a little bit about CMing at EHHOP today. It was my first experience being clinic manager, and I definitely felt unprepared for it when I got the phone on Thursday from Matt and Jeff. They explained to me all the things I had to do prior to the start of clinic on Saturday, and then what the day was generally going to be like. I called all the patients and got a little worried when I got in touch with less than half of them, but there wasn't much I could do about that. On Saturday morning, the two second-year CMs that were keeping an eye on me were really nice and did a great job of letting me run everything while making sure that I did all the things that I needed to do. There were a bunch of odd things that happened right off the bat (us having to use the Geri area instead of Medicine cause it was being painted, we couldn't find any of the files we needed because they were stored somewhere else, the websites were all down...) but we kind of went with the flow, and the teaching seniors were extremely helpful. I really enjoyed setting up the clinical teams and having them ask me questions about procedure or telling me about how they thought their cases were interesting. We had a little backup of patients around noon because we were waiting for Spanish-speaking seniors, but in the end I think it all worked out. Everyone got to see a patient, and most of the interviews went off without a hitch. I checked everyone out and closed up shop by 4:45, and was back by 5. It was also cool to spend some time with upperclassmen as they talked about second year, what sites to choose for third year, etc... It's good to get perspective from people outside of our first-year class once in a while. Now I have the EHHOP phone for the next two weeks because next weekend is the community health fair, but hopefully I won't run into any difficult cases. I think the next time I'm CMing I'll have a much better idea of how to direct people's questions (as opposed to having to confer with the teaching senior all the time to make sure I wasn't any wrong decisions).