Thread by @TheRealDoctorT

#Medtwitter
#Advice to COVIDSeniors
Confused?🤔
As you reached the halfway point of intern year and you were just about to hatch and pop out your shell, Boom! ICUs explode, gowns disappear & COVID hits.
@JenniferSpicer4 @TypicallySilent #ShareTheMicNowMed
@arghavan_salles
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Lesson #1 Get To Know your Colleagues In Training (CITs) aka Interns Well!
🧐Discover their strengths and weaknesses quickly.
🪜Support them where they are weak and encourage them to excel where they are strong
🤜Give them grace early on
@TypicallySilent #ShareTheMicNowMed
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Lesson #2: Give Effective Feedback. What is #effective feedback?
Frequent and Early in the rotation
Not long-winded, but concise
Above all else constructive! Don't just say be better, tell them HOW to be better!!
@docwithapurpose @nobility75 @TypicallySilent @DrAyanaJordan
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Lesson #3: Make Teaching a Priority. Ppl will 💟 you 4 this.
🔑Set the learning climate
🗒️Prepare a few talks before the rotation - break these up into mini-talks (1-2mins)
For a walk to a patient's room or before rounds.
@EricLawson90 @Oga_DoctorBlue @TypicallySilent

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Lesson #4: Anticipate problems: Don’t act like you don't know what they are or will be. Expect them and solve them early!
🚐Transportation
🫁Oxygen
🧑‍🦼DME (canes, wheelchairs,)
👨‍⚕️OPAT orders (i.e. outpatient antibiotics)
💡Remember - Think Ahead!
@TypicallySilent @pedsmd2b
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Lesson #5: Be Confident in your Knowledge Base and Understanding of Your Own Hospital's Practices
You don't know everything and Dynamed/Uptodate better be on speed dial
But #TrustTheProcess
You know more than you think!
@TypicallySilent #ShareTheMicNowMed
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Lesson #6: Articulate your Ground Rules
Its been a whole year, 365 Looong days. You know what you like and what you don’t like.
So tell your fellow CIT's
But no 48 laws of Power on the wards; just a handful of do’s and dont's
@TypicallySilent
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Lesson #7: Run the list with Haste and Purpose.
Move at a quick pace, your CIT should feel uncomfortable but not overwhelmed!
Your speed should communicate - I know we got a big list, but we gotta keep moving!
@emoryimchiefs
@TypicallySilent #ShareTheMicNowMed
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Lesson#8: Know the Patients
Not all the details of their Ca+ or AST on admit day #9
But! Do know who is getting Dc’ed, who needs what studies, which patients will present as a problem for nurses, and who might leave AMA?😱
#ShareTheMicNowMed @TypicallySilent @DrHowardLiu
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Lesson #9: Reflect Daily!
Perform the Root Cause Analysis on yourself first before you bark at your CIT!!!
Every day ask yourself - What could I have done better today?!?!?
@arghavan_salles @DrAyanaJordan @docwithapurpose
@VarunPhadke2 @EmoryDeptofMed @ShubAgrawalMD
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SAVED THE BEST FOR LAST!
Lesson #10: Manage the — hold on sorry guys 📞
@TheRealDoctorT just called and said I can't give this one away on his page.
#ToOcontroversial!!! 🤐
Well Follow me @TypicallySilent if you want the last lesson
@Surgeon4aCure
#ShareTheMicNowMed 🙃

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