Maohi Ragi Tea Bonansco Tuki

This is the last year of my career. At the beginning it was hard to think this moment were to come but here I am. The last year was certainly a challenge, and this upcoming year should be to, but I climb to think that it ́s just the final step, the last moments that remains to achieve my goal. Get to be what I always wanted to be, a physician.

On 2024, I started my med school internship that lasts for 2 years, a very challenging process both physically and emotionally. As a controlled practice professional scenario, I got the chance to put into practice all my knowledge that I learned through five years, and of course, I learned more in this new phase. I worked in hospitals, with real patients, no classes or taking notes. My main rotations were internal medicine and pediatrics, both crucial for my professional career. I also had other rotations shorter than the two I have mentioned, but very important too. I worked in the “Hospital del Salvador,” the center of reference for the Rapa Nui people that need more intensive or complex interventions. I saw patients that were sent for the treatment of, for example, renal calculus, chronic otitis, and hip replacements, among others. It is hard to choose in a few words one specific knowledge, because all that I have learned is truly meaningful, but I would like to mention my urgency rotation. I learned how to manage different emergency situations and when further study is needed, something I consider crucial because, like I wrote before, it is very important to know when a condition could be resolved in Rapa Nui hospital and when it is time to mobilize the patient to a more complex hospital. A specific case is, for example, acute myocardial infarction, because the first management begins with me, but depending on the evolution of the patient, it could be necessary to perform an invasive intervention and thus move the patient to a higher-resolutive center.