I just received my "dream sheets" to fill out in PA school. In eight
months I will be done with my didactic education and going into clinical
rotations for a year. The rotations are mostly all laid out except for
two extra specialties that you get to pick. On the dream sheet I have to
decide my top three picks for these rotations. Sounds exciting right?
Nope, you see all my life I have had this problem where I love and enjoy
way more things than life will allow. Going into high school I loved to
play tennis, piano, guitar, sing, run, etc. and everyone was always
telling me that I have to chose. I hate having to chose. In college I
loved to study English, psychology, music, environmental biology, and
history. But I had to chose. Then when it came time to applying to
medical school, I was taking an mcat prep course and then it hit me that
soon I would have to decide what I wanted to do for the rest of my
life. I quickly realized that was not for me. I found out about the PA
profession and it had a lot more flexibility. I could change specialties
as much as I wanted and still have time for a life. But now they give
me a dream sheet and expect to check a box. Well I don't have three
dreams...I have hundreds. But I will choose three and I'm sure it will
all work out fine. In high school I chose tennis, in college I chose
environmental science and now I will chose again, but it will not be
without stress and frustration.
Trying to fill out my dream sheet.
Cardiology? Rheumatology? Oncology? Neurology? Dermatology? Endocrinology? Pulmonology?
So many ologys.
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