Psych Rotation done

Jordan completed his Psych rotation on Friday, September 21st. It was a 6 week rotation, and let me tell you..I am SO GLAD psych was his first rotation after moving to Baton Rouge. His hours were typically 7:30am-noonish Monday-Friday. He would stay at the hospital library to study and usually come home right at 3pm so we could ride together to go pick up Bradley in the pickup line at school.  Not every day, but most days. I loved that because we could recap our day, and I could hear some highlights of his day.without patient details of course. His shorter days made me feel more comfortable navigating a new city as well because we could figure it out together. 

On his first day of this rotation he came home, all excited like a little school kid on the first day of school. He was happy because his partner was a fellow student he's (we've) been friends with since MERP days. It is always so nice to see familiar faces!! We haven't seen a lot of our friends from St. Maarten in over a year now! So there were only 2 of them on the psych service as students and he really appreciated the personal, hands on experience. Another thing to note is that Psych is completed at Baton Rouge General Mid-City campus, and food and parking are free for students.

 I don't know exactly what they did every day besides see patients, but some of the "extra" things they did were attend an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting, watched the movie "A Beautiful Mind," witnessed Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), and attended a morning at the Behavioral Wellness Clinic (group therapy). At the end of the 6 weeks he took the Psych shelf exam and just found out yesterday he passed and did well. He won't know if he honored the rotation until the attending does his evaluation. 

Jordan started his Internal Medicine (IM) rotation on Monday at the Bluebonnet campus, and it's already a whole different ballgame. I will recap it at the end of the 12 weeks! 

The only photo of Jordan I have from the past 6 weeks!