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Location |
Rush |
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# Weeks |
2, 2 or 4 |
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Hours/week on site |
41-50, 31-40 |
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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 |
0, 1 |
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Prerequisites |
None |
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Interviewing/Step 2 flexibility |
The course director is very understanding and flexible about interviews and Step 2 |
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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 |
no |
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Teaching hours/day |
1-2 |
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Teaching style |
Lecture given by resident or attending, morning report/case conference |
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Suggested reading/pocket contents |
Course Director provides reading material at the start of the rotation |
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Structure of rotation |
One-on-one with attendings/residents |
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Amt/quality of time residents/attendings |
Pretty much was in outpt format- you would see a pt and then present to an attending There are 2 fellows and 4 attendings, as well as 2 psychology residents. It is set up like most outpatient clinics at the academic center, with the student and/or resident/fellow seeing the patient first to get an initial H&P, which is then presented to the attending before he/she sees the patient. Once comfortable with the format of the initial intakes, students will complete the H&P, dictate notes, and present the patient at the case review conference on Friday morning. |
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Proportion of time evaluating pts alone |
50-75%, 0-25% |
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# pts evaluated/day |
4-6, 0-2 |
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Procedures |
Never |
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Typical day |
Get there at 9. See patients till noon, eat lunch, see patients till about 4. Start at 9am, patients scheduled from 9-12 and 1-5 for one hour slots. It is not uncommon for the schedule to be only partially full and to have patients not show for their appointments, so the patient census can be low many days. It is also very dependent on the level of initiation taken by the student. All this leaves potential for a lot of down time. There is plenty of space to study with books and computers available for self-directed learning. |
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Usefulness for any residency (# stars/5) |
3, 3 |
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Usefulness for this residency (# stars/5) |
2, 5 |
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Useful for other specialties |
Family, internal, surgery Sleep medicine, neurology, psychiatry, primary care fields, ENT, pulmonary medicine. |
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Overall rating (# stars/5) |
2, 3 |
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Recommended to other students (# stars/5) |
4 |
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Other comments |
Was upset that on my evaluation Dr. Wyatt suggested that you actually needed to have completed all of the other core rotations to be able to ask the same 20 questions of every patient and write it up. The general initial patient interview takes very little skill but in typical Dr. Wyatt form he thinks everything he does requires a PhD from NASA. Would thus suggest taking this after most of your other cores to prevent this from ending up on your evaluation. If you are on the rotation, utilize the technicians as much as possible. They are great and easy to get to know, and they're more than willing to teach you the basics of the polysomnograph, which will help you know a little of what's going on during PSG rounds on tuesday afternoons. They can also show you the various apparatus and equipment used in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders. |