b"Finding Out Where We Belong: Two Third-YearMedical Students Perspectives of Rotating in the EDBy Hannah Griffiths and Wesley AlbrightHannah and Wesley serve on the PACEP-MSC (Medical Student Council), where one of the main goals is to host EM-related speaker events for first- and second-year medical students. The goal is to generate interest in EM and showfellow students why this field is such an amazing specialty. Given the opportunity to rotate in the ED as a third-year student is a distinct privilege, and gave them both an opportunity to show them why emergency medicine captured their attention in the first place.In third year, each month is different. Its like starting a new job every 4 weeks and deciding if you like it or not. You start to feel lost when you only like bits or pieces of each new rotation. One thing was always constant for me I loved medicine and I loved taking care of people. I was able to secure an elective at a smaller community hospital emergency room. I was ecstatic to start because I had spent the last 5 years of my life working as an EMT.Within minutes of my first day in the ER, a cardiac arrest came in. ROSC was achieved and EMS left with their lucas device so that they could get back out onto the street. The patient was started on post-resuscitation measures when the monitor began to blare that the patient was bradycardic in the 20s. I grabbed my attending but by the time we came back the patient was bradycardic in the teens and went into cardiac arrest. Without missing a beat, I Hannah Griffiths began compressions. While my attending gave out medication orders, I asked MS-3, PCOM nurses and emergency technicians to start a line for compressions. It was just second nature to me. We eventually got a pulse again and I spent most of the first half of my shift with that patient helping the nurses to clean them, speaking to family members, and monitoring the patient. I spent the rest ofmy shift checking on the patient in between other patients. I felt like I had a purpose in the emergency room starting that day. The rest of my rotation was mixed with all sorts of medical pathologies and trauma. I learned so much and felt like I felt like I had found my peoplemy attendings made sure to teach me the work-up for all and where I belonged. Thiscomplaints that came in. I felt like I had found my people and where I belonged. This third-year elective, which not third-year elective, which notmany students get, helped me to determine what I wanted many students get, helped me toto do with the rest of my career.determine what I wanted to do with the rest of my career.see Wesley's story next16 PACEP News | Spring 2023"