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Location |
Oak Park Hospital Wound Care Center |
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# Weeks |
2 |
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Hours/week on site |
21-30 |
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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 |
Family Medicine |
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Interviewing/Step 2 flexibility |
? |
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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 |
Patient rounds |
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Suggested reading/pocket contents |
Pocket contents should include a pharmacopoeia or epocrates. Have a stethoscope handy as no one else in the clinic will have one. Otherwise all materials for wound care are supplied by the clinic. Reading material: the clinic has many of the product guides as well as a complete listing of all products used in the clinic. I also used: "Acute and Chronic Wounds: current management concepts " by Ruth A. Bryant, Denise P. Nix. This can be found in the library. |
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Structure of rotation |
One-on-one with attendings/residents |
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Amt/quality of time residents/attendings |
Most of the clinics are with attendings; there is 1 half day in the clinic with podiatry residents who teach a lot. All of the attendings and residents teach at some level; some teach by pimping (Dr Kouris) while others teach by showing you how to do wound care and then letting you try (Dr Nash), most others offer some combination of the 2. Overall, teaching was good. The material is easy to pick up, so after the first week, most attendings let me put what I learned into practice in the second week, getting to clean and dress wounds. |
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Proportion of time evaluating pts alone |
0-25% |
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# pts evaluated/day |
>10 |
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Procedures |
A few times/day |
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Typical day |
A typical day begins between 7 and 8am. Patients arrive and are placed in rooms by the nurses. The nurses prep the patients, removing old bandages and getting some of the basic history. Once prepped, the attending and student see the patients together. A patient encounter can last 5 minutes or 30 depending on the extent of the wound and how chatty the attending and patient are. The clinic sees 8-12 patients per half day (Except Dr Shuber who sees 26 patients per half day); each attending has 1 half day of clinic each week. There are currently 7 attendings, which gives 3 half days and 2 full days. Lunch on full days lasts between 60 and 90 minutes depending on when the morning clinic finishes and the afternoon attending arrives. |
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Usefulness for any residency |
4 of 5 stars |
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Usefulness for this residency |
5 of 5 stars |
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Useful for other specialties |
Surgery, Family Med, Internal Med, Anyone who has to deal with wounds. |
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Overall rating |
4 of 5 stars |
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Recommended to other students |
4 of 5 stars |
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Other comments |
The nursing staff is great; They teach almost as much as some of the attendings and they look out for the students, which helped me to feel really comfortable in the clinic. Also, some of the attendings are a little crazy or disaffected by the health care system; however, these varied personalities helped to make the clinic interesting and to keep the work from becoming routine. For 2007-08: Dr Palutsis, a Family Med Doc who has clinic on Thurs PM, is the incoming president of the medical staff at Oak Park Hosp. |