Washington D.C.

July 29 - August 25
My first rotation of my fourth year started in Washington D.C. at Walter Reed Hospital. I spent 4 weeks workng with the Pediatric GI team. I had a great time with them. I also got to see some of the D.C. area. I went to Iwo Jima, a little bit of Arlington Cemetery, Lincoln Memorial, WWII Memorial, the Capitol. I also went to the Holocaust museum, Spy Museum, and the Air and Space Museum -- all great. One Saturday I spent at Rock Creek Pike Park which runs from north of D.C. all the way to the middle of downtown. It's a great park, and alot of road bikers are loving it. I got to run a but on the trails and played some pick-up volleyball near the Lincoln Memorial. It's a cool city. People are all out and about and doing active things. It's great to just walk up and get to play some volleyball. I stayed in a hotel in Silver Spring, which is north of the downtown area -- it is only 2 miles from Walter Reed. It was a very nice hotel and right in the middle of Silver Spring -- with many shops and places to eat throughout. So this become my home for 4 weeks. To the point where I knew most the workers by name. They also had a shuttle service at the hotel that would take you wherever within a 3 mile radius of the hotel -- which was my ride to work most days.
I did have a rental car that I did not use all that much. I used to Metro if I was going downtown D.C. The Metro was very easy to use and the one day I did drive around D.C. I got nice and lost and drove around for a long while looking for parking (hard to find).
I did work too, and learned alot. They have alot of not so common diseases at Walter Reed because it is where everything gets sent from the other Army Hospital if a specialist needs to see them. Overall a great time.