Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU)
On to my next rotation: the MICU! Might be a little biased since this is what I want to do with my life, and undoubtedly my favorite rotation. The team structure is fairly similar to wards except there's no med students. Depending on the hospital we're at, we might have a Q4 or Q6 day off structure. I've only done one rotation so far but I don't expect my second one to be very different. My day usually starts around 5:00-30am (The world belong to those who wake up early!). I review night events, which are more frequent than in wards rotations, vitals, labs etc. prior to go see my patients. Teaching rounds start at 8am, ideally you have seen all your patients and written all your notes. On rounds, the post call team presents the overnight admissions and we all get some teaching from our wonderful ICU faculty. Then we go round on our patients with either our attending or the fellow. Meanwhile we attend urgent matters as they arise and we also answer codes in the hospi