Summer School for new Residents

It's always exciting when a new class starts. Everyone moves up a year and responsibilities and expectations change. That makes this time of renewal a good chance to revisit some important topics. The new Chief Administrative Residents (Sammy Schon, April Parker and Lindsay Kuroki) started us off with a bang with a wonderful orientation session. First, we watched the famous Seattle Fish video. For the uninitiated, this is a video that focuses on the fishmongers at the famous Seattle Fish Market. They do hard hard labor but still manage to enjoy their work. That enjoyment is contagious! In the video they lay down some of these pearls - have fun, be there, create your climate. These lessons are so important to our own residency work environment. We create the climate and if today is any indication, that climate is fun! Next, the CARs led a game of charades. The residents were divided into groups and the first member had to place their hand into a bag. They would feel an item and then whisper a description of that item to the next person. The third person would then need to silently act it out in order to get the remaining members of the team to guess it. Highlights including a description of forceps, a speculum and Baby Tuuli. It was a great session and really starts us off on the right foot. For the upcoming year, we will continue with the module-based lectures (GYN from July-Aug) but we will be incorporating more surgical skills with Dr. Biest on Thursday. Next Wednesday we'll be covering important issues like Professionalism, Handoffs and Feedback. I'll be better about trying to post weekly in order to keep this info out there. I appreciate your feedback. Thanks Tony Shanks