Due to some unusual activities scheduled for the upcoming weekend, today is the last day of my first research block of fellowship. Most fellowships have a large research component, with some being a full two years of the three years of the program. Mine is very clinically heavy so we only have 18 months of our three years dedicated to research. Of course, since our hours are pretty terrible while we're on clinical service (generally around 70 hours per week), research blocks are also for getting caught up on sleep, studying for boards, doing errands, etc. You can still put in 40 hours a week and get all that other stuff done. By comparison it feels luxurious.
My research goals for this week were pretty mellow. I was browsing labs and clinical research projects that might become my big scholarly project that is required for sub-specialty board certification. More on that later. Blocks in my program are two weeks long, but I'm not back on research until block 4, a full month from now.
TILIF: Funny what basic facts you can miss through 7 years of formal training and many more of informal exposure. "Statim" is latin for "immediately" and is the basis of the medical term for the highest level of urgency, stat. You often see "STAT" fully capitalized, so it might seem like a acronym, but really it's just a clumsily abbreviated word, like "etc." being short for "et cetera."
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