<p>DS won’t allow us to buy that kind of shoes for him YET, for some unknown reason. He is ok with us if we purchased other kind of dress shoes for him.</p>
<p>He said when the time comes for Dansko clogs, he will buy it for himself. Now he only needs more comfortable dress shoes.</p>
<p>I don’t know guys would care about the “look”! A result of not having a gf yet?! Arrgg!</p>
<p>We went to some shoes stores and department store. So far, we are not happy about SAS. The bottom is flat and it looks different from running shoes. Ecco Fusion looks comfortable but its European sizes confuse us greatly and it does not have “W” (wide) size. Now we are looking at Clarks Wave series. It will be a busy weekend for shopping.</p>
<p>FWIW, the women’s Clarks are fantastic for the hospital. I’ve have had many pair over the years and keep going back. Maybe he’ll have luck with the men’s. </p>
<p>I don’t know how often or if he’s allowed to wear scubs in internal medicine (differs by hospital), but his running shoes are probably totally okay if he’s in scrubs. I went though an entire surgery rotation without buying Dansko’s. I just made sure to wear the shoe covers in the OR. Way more comfortable than breaking in shoes that made my arches hurt within five minutes of trying them on.</p>
<p>I stand and walk alot and have some podiatric issues. I wear Clarks and Merrells shoes all the time. Both are very comfortable, but not particularly fashion-forward. </p>
<p>I have a friend who’s a surgeon. He wears (I’m not making this up) Red Wing Duck Hunting Boots in the OR. WHY? because they’re waterproof and comfortable. He gives a pair to all his new residents as welcome gift.</p>
<p>We ended up ordering a Dunham after having found out the same company which makes New Balance makes Dunham. It is a very risky move to buy shoes without trying it first. We thought if it is made by the same company which makes his current sneaker, maybe there is less risk about the sizes/width. Knock, knock!</p>
<p>It is about the speed of execution here. Found his need and within a few hours and what he may need was on its way to him. Hopefully he will like it.</p>
<p>While searching info online, somebody said it takes some time before a Dansko is “break in” but once it breaks in, it is very comfortable and durable.</p>
<p>A second for the men’s Clarks. Son is also in IM rotation, just finished up Neuro and he needed comfortable dress shoes for the wards. I bought him a pair of brown Clarks, laces, rubber bottoms with support, looks nice and he says they are comfortable. Picked them up at Marshalls.</p>
<p>^D. ended up alternating her shoes (one day one pair, another day another), it has worked for her in Surgery rotation (considered to be the most physically challenging at her school). The Neuro / Psych is the next one. She hopes for a bit of break, remains to be seen…but she has been interested in Psyck/Neuro, so it can make a diff., plus she will have it at the place of her first choice. She knew beforehand that Surgery / Anesthesia / Emergency Med. are not for her. Her rotation so far has proven that she has been correct in her assessment that she would not fit into either of them.</p>
<p>Psych and neuro are different fields, but are often scheduled back-to-back during rotation because there’s a ton of overlap between the fields. Both involve the brain. (Hardware[neuro] vs software [psych], as one poster here once described it.) </p>
<p>D2 works in a neuropsychiatry group right now. Lots of the current research is demonstrating that many psychological conditions have a major neurological or biochemical component. There was even a recent journal article that has indicated there are biochemical markers in the blood that may indicate suicidal behavior.</p>
<p>"Psych and Neuro are different fields right? Are they clubbed together for rotations? "
-They are together and separate. Together is because they are one after another and considered to be one rotation at D’s school. Separate because they are (I believe) at different offices (the same place) and from what I hear, psych has more days off, possibly both Sat. and Sun.</p>
<p>Son’s school has psych and neuro seperate. He had several overnights for the neuro on the wards and in the ER. Said the time flew by he did not even realize the whole night was gone. He did enjoy it, specifically the ER part, figures. His surgery rotation follows right after his IM one which he is currently in. His first rotation was outpatient surgery.</p>
<p>practicing neurologist here. Although many med schools have the rotations follow one another, they are vastly different specialties in real life, separate residencies, separate board exams etc…if the brain is a computer, neurologists are the Hardware guys, psychiatrists are the software guys. Neurology, when it is not a separate department in a medical school, is most often place within the medicine department(like cardiology, endocrinology, rheumatology etc…), much less often is it placed with psychiatry. Neurology requires a year of internal medicine training(internship) prior to the neurology residency(3 years), further sub-specialty fellowship training(vascular neurology, sleep medicine, clinical neurophysiology, neuro-crtical care etc…) add further years of training.</p>
<p>Just fine; thanks for asking; wife and I visited him in Nashville a few weeks ago. In his last year of internal medicine residency, was asked/selected to stay on as a ‘Chief resident’ for a 4th year(a staff position). He then plans on a pulmonary/critical care fellowship either at Vanderbilt or Denver or Mass General. Mother hopes he finds someone who wishes to be with a 'tall, dark and handsome physician with no debt", I am sure someone will come along(he is dating up a storm).</p>
<p>Got a question for the great minds around here.</p>
<p>D started shadowing someone around for the last few days and thought we need to track hours. I was thinking it is not hours that is important but what you have learnt while shadowing. The gist of it - we are not sure what about shadowing translates back on to an application 2 years from now.</p>
<p>She will need to be able to list the hours and a range of dates when did this activity.</p>
<p>On her AMCAS it will look like this:</p>
<p>Physician Shadowing Dates: [start-stop] Total Hours: </p>
<p>Most meaningful experience yes/no</p>
<p>and then will provide a short description (~600 characters) of the activities she participated in during this expereince.</p>
<p>If she lists this activity as her one of her most meaningful, she will get additional character space to talk about the activity.</p>
<p>~~~~</p>
<p>If the activity turns out to be particularly meaningful, she will probably use it as a topic for discussion in her PS and/or in some of her secondaries.</p>
Hopefully he will like it.</p>