I recently started my PGY-2 year. The experience is intense, and I haven’t even finished the first week. I had been anxiously anticipating starting training as an ophthalmologist the last few weeks of internship, and there has been no disappointment thus far.

I feel like an intern all over again, only worse. As an intern in medicine or surgery, I still had an inkling of a differential diagnosis for abdominal pain or any other common complaint. Medical school was grounded on core medicine. But ophthalmology? A foreign language to most physicians. Physical exam? No idea. And the fact that we’re on call an average of Q3-Q4, things have been busy.

Sorry for the delayed updates folks! More to come!

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