Dipping a Toe in Dermatology

Nearly a month into my dermatology residency. Why did I think this would somehow be easier?

What I’ve gained back in weekends, I seem to of lost in confidence. And complexity. As of an entire new world has opened up to me, and I barely knew any of it.

We’re at once I would see 6 patients a day, now I see six patients and a *half* day – the stream of patients is constant. s is the stream of notes. Of work to do. And a constant feeling that I’m not quite up to par. When a patient waits for longer than they should I feel partially at fault.

Coming from medicine, it feels as if I’m a character in an entirely new play.

Part of that “inadequacy” is normal and expected for where I am in my residency training.

But another part of my longs to not be a beginner again, if just for once.