My name is Paola Fernández, I am 25 years old and I am an Undergraduate Internal Medicine Doctor, from the La salle university. During this year of internship, I had the opportunity to do a rotation with the Doctor Raúl Rincón, Neurosurgeon and spine surgeon, in his clinic Neuro Spine & Pain Clinic, for 2 weeks.

I decided to take the opportunity to do this rotation not only because of the importance for my academic knowledge about neurological pathologies, but because having previously known the doctor, I had had the opportunity to see his way of working with patients admitted to the hospital where I do the rest of my practices, H+ Hospital Los Cabos, where I perceived the treatment he had with patients, as well as his critical thinking and clinical analysis of the cases that arrived.

I remember the first times I came to see the doctor, visiting with all your team work and I remember feeling intrigued to meet them all since you could see from afar the excellent relationship they had as a team and with the patients and how all the patients were completely grateful to them and satisfied with the treatment given, because of this, my desire for wanting to know a little more about their way of working, was born.

Likewise, the specialty that he has, for me, is one of the most complicated specialties to understand, with greater knowledge and more delicacy. I remember that in medical school they were one of the subjects that cost me the most work, but that at the same time intrigued me the most, and seeing the doctor diagnosing, operating and treating these pathologies, for me it was very admirable.

Because of all this, I asked the doctor if he would give me the opportunity to rotate with him, which he accepted without hesitation. The first day I arrived at his clinic, he welcomed me and introduced me to his entire team, who welcomed me with open arms, gave me a small tour of the clinic and explained a little about their way of working, which I liked it a lot, I began to see that teamwork more closely, which is not very common to see.

Later I began to meet some of the patients and I could clearly notice the excellent relationship that Neuro Spine has with them, during my entire rotation there was not a single patient who did not thank the doctor and the team for all the work they did for them , which I loved, because it is a goal that I have as a future doctor, to be able to have a relationship like this with my patients and not only treat their pathology, but to get to know them as people, listen to their stories, support them in whatever way I can and take an interest in them, and make them feel safe in my hands, and honestly throughout my career, I have never seen any doctor achieve this, and at the Neuro Spine clinic I had the opportunity to witness this, and it served me a lot as motivation to be So.

Apart from the knowledge about neurological pathologies and more about spinal pathologies, which they hardly teach us in the degree, and which I was able to learn since the doctor answered all the doubts I had and explained to me with patience and detail, I learned a lot about the medical relationship. -patient and what teamwork is like, with all the staff, with other doctors from different specialties and with patients, something that they don't teach you in any career class, this is something that you only learn by living it and fortunately I had the opportunity to do it.

Another part of the rotation that I loved was going into surgeries with the doctor, I had never had the opportunity to be in spinal surgeries, let alone endoscopic ones, there are very few doctors who perform them, so it is difficult to have the opportunity to enter one of them, and fortunately I was able to attend some. They are impressive surgeries, with a minimal incision, which one would think is not possible, and I had the opportunity to assist the doctor as the first assistant, which is very valuable for my knowledge, since I felt really involved in them and part of, something that does not happen when one only sees the surgery from afar or when they teach it to you in the classrooms, and I learned a lot, the doctor during the surgeries explained to me what he was doing and what we were observing with the endoscope, and thus I managed to understand and integrate theoretical knowledge that I already had.

I remember a lot going to visit the doctor, with the patients of those surgeries, and how he explained to them what he did and everyone thanked him for changing their lives, and I remember a lot his responses to those comments, since he always told them that he didn't It had only been his work, but that of the entire team, and I liked that a lot, since few people recognize the work of others and do not take all the credit, and that is something very admirable, because not only does he take care of patients, but to their entire team. The first day talking about the devices they have in the clinic to perform different therapies, the doctor explained and showed me how they work, and because I have chronic pain in one hand, he gave me therapy with those devices and I was surprised. like the whole team cared and gave me advice to see other specialists who are part of the clinic team, to help me treat my pain, and it made me feel more part of, and feel that they care and I'm not just one more intern rotating with them, I also really liked that part.

In conclusion, I learned a lot in this rotation, both medical knowledge and knowledge about human treatment, the doctor-patient relationship, and teamwork. If any of my fellow interns ask me if I would recommend rotating with the doctor and at the Neuro Spine clinic, without hesitation I would say yes, since they taught me things that no one had taught me, I think it is a very valuable rotation and it is worth it. much worth it.