Intern year

I’m a D.O.

We still have rotating internships, at least those who continue osteopathic training. I did an osteopathic internship, then allopathic after that.

Personally, I’m still a fan of the rotating internship. Advantages is the exposure to multiple areas with more training and responsibility under your belt.

Disadvantage can be, the intern “belongs” to no department, and if run badly, no one feels any responsibility to teach the intern.

What does the group think?

I don’t think anyone is really supposed to teach the intern. The intern is supposed to do and learn thereby, and the “teaching” largely consisting of pointing out what he did wrong and by example. In my best rotations as an intern the upper level staff were more there as consultants for us to call on–and peeked over our shoulders in case we didn’t have enough sense to know we needed to call.