We’re still a week away from the end of internship, but year-end festivities are already abound. Today was our graduation ceremony, which I almost missed as we were back in extreme census and the cardiology service continued to bulge at the seams. The ceremony was nice, though the oversized diploma did not do justice to the guts and glory that went into surviving this year. We also got a framed print of the old hospital building, as well as a reproduction of the resident guidebook from 1940, perhaps to remind us how lucky we are nowadays to not actually reside in the hospital as residents. Yesterday evening was the department dinner, highlights of which included our poet laureate (i.e. the resident with the most outstanding discharge summaries), the senior slideshow, and year-end videos. Our class did not disappoint with our share of funny skits including a guy with his ringtone set to the Code Blue alarm and a patient code status discussion with an Applebee’s-styled menu (our favorite being an option for chest compressions but no shocks, “which is great for relieving guilt”). Our other accomplishments this week included finally completing our bobblehead collection from Fallout 3, as well as our 300-page Japan album from Blurb. Hopefully, our Vietnam/Cambodia album will be substantially slimmer.