Hi all,

I know people have been wondering what the Atlanta rotations are like. I am a 3rd year student and I transferred to statia after basic sciences from Saba. Well, I have now completed Internal Medicine, Psychiatry and OB/GYN. So I have a little experience. All my rotations were set up back to back which I really enjoyed even though I could request a week off at any time.

My Internal Medicine rotation was 8 weeks inpatient at Atlanta Medical Center (used to be Georgia Baptist) and then 4 weeks of out patient at a large medicine practice. All of it was phenomenal, and the teaching experience was rather good. Some students complained about their attendings, but there will always be someone who doesnt get along with their attending. In the inpatient we rounded on patients by ourselves or with a partner, and then wrote up SOAP notes, and then shadowed the attendings, and occasionally did a presentation. There were grand rounds once a week with a Doc to discuss a certain lecture topic.

For Psych, I did the rotation in Augusta Georgia, at Georgia Regional (now called East Central Regional Hospital). This was a "crazy" rotation. There were the same amount of MCG (medical college of Georgia) students there as IMG's. We worked 2 students per attending, and the patients truly belonged there. The experience was second to none, and I wouldnt give it up for anything. Basically, if you want a rotation so that you never have to study for step 2 (at least the psychiatry) then this is the place to do it, because you will literally see everything and the whole spectrum of psychiatric illness'. We worked 8am-5:00pm daily and then took call one night a week from 6:00-11:00pm.

For OB/GYN I was at Emory Crawford Long and with a private doc in outpatient. This is a great hospital to do OB in because it has great facilities that are brand new. My attending was very old school and he did all vaginal deliveries while I was with him. He let me assist him in delivering babies and I was on call for all 6 weeks. I worked for >24 hrs on several occasions. I delivered 11 babies. I got to sit in on numerous tubal ligations, and on a C-section (not my docs) and assist in a couple of those tubal ligations. My attending also showed me how to use rotational forceps and delivery forceps. Very very cool rotation and I originally thought I wouldnt like OB but I actually enjoyed it very very much.

Thats all I have done so far... I will try to keep you posted... if anyone has any questions let me know. I am off to surgery next.

Val MS3