first day on the job

This morning we attended the anesthesia team meeting where anesthesia staff, residents and technicians discuss difficult operations from the previous night and challenging cases for the day.   The complexity of the cases is remarkable.  It is a great pleasure to see my good friends again and to meet some of the new residents.  At long last there are two women in the program!

Faye and I spent the rest of the morning sorting out equipment for the SAFE Course.  After the course we will be leaving the equipment at the simulation centre so that future courses can be run there.  This will be infinitely more sustainable than trying to fundraise for hotel expenses, as we’ve done this time.

In the afternoon we visited Christian at the military hospital. We are running a series of faculty orientations for the SAFE Course and this was our first one.  Christian is a new anesthesiologist, having just graduated from the Rwandan residency program.  He spent six months in Halifax and it is wonderful to watch his journey from trainee to staff person.

We caught up with Alex for dinner and heard about his first day at the orphanage.  I’m sure he will blog about that tomorrow, so I won’t say much.  It sounds incredible.  He’s gone to bed early – still sorting out the jet lag.