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Location |
Rush |
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# Weeks |
4 |
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Hours/week on site |
less than 20, 21-30, 31-40 (2) |
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Open to M3s? |
yes |
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Scheduled through OASIS? |
yes |
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On Rush schedule? |
yes |
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# other students |
3, 4 or more |
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Prerequisites |
Internal Medicine core |
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Interviewing/Step 2 flexibility |
2, 3, 5 days The fellow was very understanding whenever someone needed time off. I think you could get away with more than 2 days off. As many days as needed (within reason of course) |
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Overnight call? |
no |
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Work weekends? |
no |
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Weekend call? |
no |
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Is there an exam at the end of the rotation |
no |
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Students required to give a presentation |
yes |
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Teaching hours/day |
1-3, more than 4, 2-3 |
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Teaching style |
Patient rounds, Lecture given by resident or attending, Student presentations, morning report/case conference |
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Suggested reading/pocket contents |
None required. Lots of good books in the Allergy conference room to use as resources for student presentations. |
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Structure of rotation |
Team-based, One-on-one with attendings/residents |
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Amt/quality of time residents/attendings |
We spent both clinic and teaching time with fellows. The teaching was really good. The attendings are present in clinic, but didn’t focus as much on teaching. The majority of the time is spent with the fellows. They are all excellent. Everyone is very friendly, and really try to teach. Excellent rotation!!!!! In clinic, we presented our patients to either a Fellow or an Attending, and they would do some teaching (sometimes for the whole group) if time permitted. We also had daily student and Fellow lectures on the big A&I topics. Occasionally we would get consults and talk about those issues as well. Teaching was high-quality and I learned a lot. I spent a good amount of time with both the fellows and the attendings. They were all very interested in teaching. |
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Proportion of time evaluating pts alone |
25-50%, 50-75% (2),75-100% |
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# pts evaluated/day |
0-2 |
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Procedures |
Never, Once a day |
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Typical day |
4 half days of clinic per week, on average would see 1-2 patients in clinic. Then rounds in the morning/afternoon depending on clinic schedule. Clinic most mornings beginning at 830, with a few hours off before lectures in the afternoons that lasted 1-1.5 hours. We would round on patients, if there were any on service, after that. Most days we were done by 3 pm. The majority of the time is spent in the peds A/I clinic at Fantus. The rest of the day is devoted to teaching. Each student is required to do one presentation for each two week block. 4 half-days of clinic a week and the other half of the day (and all of the 5th day) for presentations and rounds. The schedule was light - generally 2-3 hours in the am and 2-3 hours in the pm. There were a lot of students on the rotation with me, so we usually only saw 1-2 patients each at clinic. In the morning at about 9a, you have clinic. You finish at 11:30. Lecture begins at 1:15 and finishes at about 3. If any patients were on service, then you round with the attending whenever they are available. I never stayed past 5. |
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Usefulness for any residency (# stars/5) |
2, 3, 3, 5, 3 |
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Usefulness for this residency (# stars/5) |
3, 4, 4, 5, 5 |
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Useful for other specialties |
Internal Medicine, Peds, anything primary care, emergency medicine. |
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Overall rating (# stars/5) |
3, 4, 4, 5, 5 |
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Recommended to other students (# stars/5) |
5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
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Other comments |
The fellows are excellent!!!! Each student gave 2 presentations during the 4 weeks. The pressure was very low key, so nothing to worry about. The Fellows and Attendings are all awesome people and the environment is super friendly. This is a very laid back rotation. Its perfect if you need to study for boards or take time off for interviews. The staff are extremely friendly and love to teach. It's not action packed by any means but its perfect if you need a break in you schedule or a easy medicine rotation/ |