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Location |
Rush |
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# Weeks |
4 |
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Hours/week on site |
over 80, 51-60 |
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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 |
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Prerequisites |
surgery |
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Interviewing/Step 2 flexibility |
? |
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Overnight call? |
yes, no |
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Work weekends? |
yes, no |
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Weekend call? |
yes, no |
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Is there an exam at the end of the rotation |
no, yes |
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Students required to give a presentation |
no, yes |
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Teaching hours/day |
1-2, 0-1 |
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Teaching style |
Patient rounds, Morning report/Case conference, Lecture given by resident or attending |
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Suggested reading/pocket contents |
Don't read for this elective. Actually, if you're reading for your electives, you're doing something wrong. |
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Structure of rotation |
Team-based |
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Amt/quality of time residents/attendings |
This is the busiest service at Rush. They are always glad to have a med student, so they will use you. They don't care if you know anything, so it's not intimidating. In fact, they assume you know nothing, which is great, because they explain everything. Attendings are great. I loved the month. Residents were great too, but who knows which residents are on service now? Lots of time with the attendings and residents... but not a whole lot of teaching. |
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Proportion of time evaluating pts alone |
75-100%, 0-25% |
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# pts evaluated/day |
4-6, 0-2 |
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Procedures |
A few times/day, a few times/month |
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Typical day |
It's all a blur. You go from OR to OR, to harvest, to SICU, to OR, to rounds, to SICU and place a central line (which they will let you do yourself), to OR, and then home. There is zero down time. This was the most fun I've ever had. Seated pre-rounds at 6, walking workrounds at 7, skip out of work rounds to go to the OR if there are cases, maybe return to the floors between cases, maybe round with attendings in the afternoon (if team remembers to page you), sign-out around 6. Organ procurement trips (usually starting in the afternoon and ending with a liver transplant in the wee hours of the morning) are a randomly-interspersed bonus. You can choose whether or not to stay for part or all of the liver transplants... and choose whether or not to come in the next day. |
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Usefulness for any residency (# stars/5) |
5, 3 |
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Usefulness for this residency (# stars/5) |
5, 3 |
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Useful for other specialties |
Any specialty that requires budgeting your time well. The one thing I learned from this rotation was my fatigue limit. |
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Overall rating (# stars/5) |
5, 3 |
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Recommended to other students (# stars/5) |
5, 3 |
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Other comments |
Do it. |