Medical ICU - Rush

Location

Rush

# Weeks

4

Hours/week on site

41-50, 31-40

Open to M3s?

yes

Scheduled through OASIS?

yes

On Rush schedule?

yes

# other students

0, 1

Prerequisites

Medicine

Interviewing/Step 2 flexibility

2 days taken, more if you ask fellow

Overnight call?

no

Work weekends?

no

Weekend call?

no

Is there an exam at the end of the rotation

no

Students required to give a presentation

no

Teaching hours/day

2-3

Teaching style

Patient rounds, Lecture given by resident or attending

Suggested reading/pocket contents

Medicine blue book, stethoscope...

Structure of rotation

Team-based

Amt/quality of time residents/attendings

Spent approximately 3-4 hours with attendings each day and spent most of the day with the residents.  Great teaching!!

Mornings were great for teaching. We often discussed management
questions on rounds, chest x-ray rounds were really helpful to learn a
systematic way of reading CXRs, attendings and fellows were great about
lecturing on most important topics in critical care.

Proportion of time evaluating pts alone

75-100%

# pts evaluated/day

0-2

Procedures

A few times/week, a few times/month

Typical day

7:30 pre-round, 8:30-9:15 NRCU rounds, 9:15-10:00 chest x-rays and teaching by fellows, 10-12 micu rounds, 12-1 medicine lecture in ab dick, 1-4 finish up patient stuff, admit new patients, sign out rounds

Pre-round from 7:30 to 8:30, start rounds at 8:30 and finish maybe
around 11. Rest of the day is pretty laid back - work up a new patient,
read, or help residents. Sign-out rounds by 4pm. I usually left right
after sign-out.

Usefulness for any residency (# stars/5)

4, 5

Usefulness for this residency (# stars/5)

5, 5

Useful for other specialties

medicine, neuro, anesthesia, surgery, radiology, ER

Overall rating (# stars/5)

5, 3

Recommended to other students (# stars/5)

5, 4

Other comments

I was bored a lot, but I did learn quite a bit of vital information.


Medical ICU - Stroger

 

Location

Stroger

# Weeks

4

Hours/week on site

41-50

Open to M3s?

yes

Scheduled through OASIS?

yes

On Rush schedule?

yes

# other students

2

Prerequisites

internal medicine

Interviewing/Step 2 flexibility

they're flexible

Overnight call?

no

Work weekends?

yes

Weekend call?

yes

Is there an exam at the end of the rotation

no

Students required to give a presentation

no

Teaching hours/day

3-4

Teaching style

Patient rounds, Morning report/Case conference, Lecture given by resident or attending

Suggested reading/pocket contents

They gave us a bound handout to read. 

Structure of rotation

Team-based

Amt/quality of time residents/attendings

Attendings would round with us in the morning and at sign-out (both were bedside rounds).  The fellow was always around to help out.  Residents were primarily responsible for the patients, but they were less comfortable than they are on the floors.  Attending teaching sessions were very good, but they often disagreed on the best treatments.

Proportion of time evaluating pts alone

25-50%

# pts evaluated/day

0-2

Procedures

Once a week

Typical day

We would pre-round starting at 7:30 or so, then round from 8-11.  We sometimes had a lecture around lunchtime.  Then we would round again at 4pm or so.

Usefulness for any residency (# stars/5)

4

Usefulness for this residency (# stars/5)

5

Useful for other specialties

Internal Medicine

Overall rating (# stars/5)

4

Recommended to other students (# stars/5

4

Other comments

I learned a lot about ventilators, but did not get to start as many lines as I had hoped.