Goodbye General Medicine

In the last week of my 4 week general medicine block, the team changed. On Sunday, one of the interns called her last call and the very next Monday, the other intern presented his last (at least, on this rotation) presentation at attending rounds. It was a sad day. Then on Tuesday, the R2 left and Wednesday the R3 moved on as well. In short, I was left with a completely (well almost, the attending and PA stayed on) new team for about 3 days and a consequently completely different team dynamic. It was weird.
Everything felt wrong. It was four new people to get used to, with their own personalities and styles of teaching/learning. Mixed in with my desire to make like a tree and leave early every day in order to get some much needed studying done (evaluations = written by previous team), was my desire to be the perfect medical student/scut monkey, in helping out every member of the team, AND learning while I did so. I also didn't feel the urge to "make nice" with the new team, because that Friday was my last day. So what did I do? I toughed it out until Thursday, staying as late as usual and offering to help. On Friday, I stayed until 1pm and called it a day. Goodbye general medicine.
I have a feeling that I will never have a team as nice as this first team. Every now and then I catch glimpses of the R3 on the floors of the hospital and wave and grin enthusiastically to show how much I miss her. Walking with the PA one day, I saw the [female] intern who hugged us both and told us how much she misses us. It's almost as though we were never thrown together in close quarters for 4 busy weeks. We also had the special treat of being taken out to dinner by our attending Wednesday night. All in all, it was a very good team. I put a thank you note underneath my attending's office door to show my appreciation (after careful consideration about whether or not it was unethical - I decided it wasn't). I miss them all.