Hello everyone and thanks for downloading EM Clerkship.

My name is Maddie Watts and I am currently an emergency medicine PGI2.

This is the first episode of my new series called Surviving Your Off Service.

As some of you may know, intern years spent partially in the ED but with a lot of time working on other services, like OBGYN,

orthopedics, and trauma surgery. This is a series that I've thought about doing pretty much as soon as

I started my intern year. I thought, wouldn't it be nice to have some quick refresher to listen to

the night before a new rotation or on my way into work.

Because we all know how it goes. It's midweek. You just got off a 10-day stretch in the ICU

or an overnight in the ED, but the next day is the first of the month, so you're magically

now an entirely different type of doctor. At best, you've had one night and a last-minute

introductory email to prepare.

I remember during my intern year, I was in the trauma bay at 6 p.m. on a Wednesday and by 5

a.m. on a Thursday, I was in obitriage checking someone's cervix.

It's wild.

So I knew I wanted to create this series because I would have given anything to have something

like this when I was an intern. But I'll admit, when I first sat down to start creating this material,

I struggled a lot with how to go about it. There's so much to learn on each of your off-service rotations,

and it's really hard to distill down to just a few 10 to 15-minute

podcasts. I mean, there's a reason why there's whole residences in these other specialties.

Furthermore, I am not an OB-GYN or a trauma surgeon or an orthopod, so who am I to be the one

to teach you about how to succeed in these specialties?

Ultimately, I decided that my emergency medicine perspective is actually the unique value of this podcast. This is not going to be a comprehensive review of everything you need to know or

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