The hospital here is great. This hospital and St. Agnes are the two best support staff hospitals that I've been to during my rotations up to this point. You can ask anyone for help and you'll receive it. It makes for a very comfortable learning environment.

We had the privilege of having the surgery chair for Ross come and evaluate this site, about 2 weeks ago. I specifically asked him what sites were the best sites that Ross had for surgery, and this is what he mentioned, which i've mostly learned through the grapevine anyway

Cape Cod Hospital, St. Mary's (waterbury CT), Huron (cleveland OH) and St. Agnes (baltimore) were the best sites. (I think that he mentioned Lutheran in Brooklyn, but I'm not entirely sure if I remember correctly)
In retrospect, while I don't know what the attendings would are like, but I would have preferred to go to St. Mary's in CT.
reasons are as follows: Every wednesday they have lecture day, which is a full day of lectures for the students and the residents. (I tend to enjoy lectures) The preceptor for the students (I forget his name) is really well respected in the surgery community (he developed TPN throughout his career) and is affiliated with Yale university, I got to watch him speak at Grand rounds in Baltimore in February of this year. Apparently he takes notice of hard working students and I would assume that his letter of recommendation would have clout.

Good things about CCH is that it is affiliated with Boston University. So the residents are from there, and the attendings are affiliated with Boston. There are also BU medical students that come here as well. We only get one lecture per week from the preceptor attending. Otherwise we get to scrub into the O.R. a lot I see at least 2 cases per day. There is more than enough O.R. time. you'll get to learn alot. There is one clinic week during your 12 weeks, and one powerpoint presentation required. You're responsible for patients, and writing daily notes, and reporting to the residents during rounds. The amount of work is dependent on how many students are here. currently we have a lot of students so I'm on call Q10 days, which is great. You don't really have dealings with the attendings except for in the O.R. but i don't think that you'll really deal with the attendings at any other surgery site either. You see them in the O.R. enough to where they will get to know you. Your contact will be mostly with the residents. so if you're interested in surgery (which I'm not) I would suggest going to one of the sites that I mentioned above. With priority being on St. Mary's or Huron. Do not accept going to Wyckoff for Internal Medicine or Surgery, because you won't be in a good learning environment. I did a 2 week elective in Anesthesia while there, and felt horrible for the students there in those programs. It would be a waste of your time. There are too many students in those two important core rotations for you to receive a personalized learning experience.