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Originally Posted by doctormua
hi, i'm a 5th semester basic science student getting ready for usmle as of right now.........my plan is to do psych first, and then move to nyc to do all my cores...............i'm assuming the 4 cores other than psych will take me 8-12 months to complete assuming a break or two between them........therefore i want to be in nyc the whole time. my question is, after i finish the cores at wycoff.........what about the electives? can i do my elective rotations at wycoff also? as of right now, i'm looking at internal medicine.........so the electives don't have to be any big specialty ones.........but can i do my electives in nyc also? thanks.
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Rotations does not work the way you're posting it. It depends on what rotations are available for you to start in by the time you pass the steps. If you insist on starting with psych you might have to sit out a long..long....long....long....long....time, and could potentially miss your match. My advise is, dont think about rotations for now, focus onthe steps and make sure you get the best possible score. Rotations will just come your way. We dont have a lot of clinical sites that are ACGME for the particular rotations. The only place you can get just about all of your rotations to be ACGME is at Wyckoff and Houma. The rest are ACGME for just IM or family med, or psych. I cant really blame the school as they are trying to get clinical sites. However, it is getting hard to get clinical spots that are ACGME as more and more program directors are becoming biased towards carib med schools.