Fifth year a.k.a Postgraduate Internship

You survived senior clerkship! (4th year)

Congratulations! You’ve graduated and earned your Diploma. You now bear the title of a doctor.

…and yay, you still have a loooong way to go!

The 5th year of Medicine is the Post-Graduate Internship year, as most Philippine Medical schools give their diplomas at the end of the 4th year. This is the year you’re no longer a student per se. You will become the Post-Graduate Intern, the “apprentice doctor”.

This is the year you will rotate one last time in all the different fields of medicine – you will be a surgeon, internist, a pediatrician, an obstetrician-gynecologist and a community doctor.

A GLIMPSE OF PGI LIFE:

Every postgraduate interns’ responsibility: Updating the Census

Updating the census means doing patient rounds during and before shift ends

Obligatory picture in the operating room 😂

Milestone: Performing a Spinal Anesthesia Block

My favorite day of the week is having to wear a comfortable pair of sneakers

From clerkship to internship, I have always loved apposing and suturing wounds. I am thankful for our surgical residents for allowing us to suture wounds on our own.