Pulmonary Medicine

Location

Rush

# Weeks

4

Hours/week on site

31-40 (2)

Open to M3s?

yes

Scheduled through OASIS?

yes

On Rush schedule?

yes

# other students

2, 1

Prerequisites

Medicine, Surgery

Interviewing/Step 2 flexibility

4 days taken off

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 (1), no (1)

Teaching hours/day

2-3

Teaching style

Patient rounds, Lecture given by resident or attending, Student presentations

Suggested reading/pocket contents

Review respiratory physiology, blue pocket medicine helpful

Structure of rotation

Team-based

Amt/quality of time residents/attendings

All of rounds and all of teaching rounds. Attending contact was ample and of the highest quality of my M4 year

80% of the day was spent with the team of attendings and residents.
Teaching quality was excellent and students were an important part of
the team

Proportion of time evaluating pts alone

25-50%, 75-100%

# pts evaluated/day

2-4

Procedures

never

Typical day

1-2 hours of down time, morning and afternoon rounds. We started around 7 and finished by 4 or 5

Pre-round on 2-4 patients before rounds start at 7:30-8ish. Round on
MICU and CCU patients as a team. Break for lunch to see new consults,
regroup around 1:30 to go over new consults and for teaching. Finish
rounding on new patients and floor patients in the afternoon, done by
4-5

Usefulness for any residency (# stars/5)

5, 5

Usefulness for this residency (# stars/5)

5, 5

Useful for other specialties

critical care, anesthesia, internal medicine

Overall rating (# stars/5)

5, 5

Recommended to other students (# stars/5)

5, 4

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