Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Location

Rush

# Weeks

4

Hours/week on site

31-40

Open to M3s?

yes

Scheduled through OASIS?

yes

On Rush schedule?

yes

# other students

1

Prerequisites

Peds

Interviewing/Step 2 flexibility

?

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

yes

Teaching hours/day

2-3, more than 4

Teaching style

Patient rounds, AM report/Case conf., Lecture by resident or attending, Student presentations

Suggested reading/pocket contents

Peds Heme/Onc Secrets Book (in the library)

Structure of rotation

One-on-one with attendings/residents

Amt/quality of time residents/attendings

We spent every day with the resident and there was a lot of time to spend with attending one-on-one. They spent a lot of time teaching, which was a good refresher on all the things you have forgotten.

Dr. Kent spent time almost every day discussing patient-relevant information with us as well as going over cases that laid out the basics of hematology-oncology.  Dr. Valentino also had several presentations that covered the basics of coagulopathies.

Proportion of time evaluating pts alone

0-25%, 75-100%

# pts evaluated/day

2-6

Procedures

A few times/month

Typical day

Typical day depended on the day but usually we go to clinic and see patients. Days we didn’t have clinic, we would round on the floor patients. After clinic, we would either see consults or have up to a 2-hour teaching session.

There were clinic hours three days a week where you would see patients on your own, or with another medical student, then present to an attending.  The other two mornings you would participate at rounds with the on-call Heme-Onc attending.  There was very little down time overall.

Usefulness for any residency

4-5 of 5 stars

Usefulness for this residency

5 of 5 stars

Useful for other specialties

Heme/Onc, Peds

Overall rating

5 of 5 stars

Recommended to other students

5 of 5 stars

Other comments

It was nice to have attendings that took so much time to teach. Also, got to do some procedures which was good practice.