Thread: greenbook rotations question

hello friends,

i was just wondering if AUC students are able to easily acquire greenbook rotations for their cores and electives? from my understanding, electives can be done anywhere.

I read ross's forum, and apparently studetns gt stuck with peds and OB their 4th year, meaning that have to take step 1 w/out these rotations!

You mean step 2, right?

yea sorry

for cores, you must do them your first year b/c MEAS will not allow you to take step with out them. and all of our affiliated sites are considered green book. as far as electives, you have to do them at a site that offers a training program in that area and thus making it a green book site. and everyone who has come to auc has gotten to do clinicals at an approved site, thus all the M.D.'s walking around who graduated from here. so fear not, you will get the clinicals you need, but first you must get into medical school but first you must get in and that is the big one!

Originally Posted by apple usr

and all of our affiliated sites are considered green book. as far as electives, you have to do them at a site that offers a training program in that area and thus making it a green book site.

Your first statement is not entirely true. All AUC affiliated sites are acceptable by the California state medical board (which requires a residency program in any specialty, but not necessarily the specialty you are completing). Certain states (including TX and PA) require all cores to be completed at sites which have a residency in that particular specialty. Refer to ACGME Accredited Program and Institutional Listing - Public Access to check if some place you'd like to rotate is greenbook. The most glaring example of this is Pediatrics at Kern, which has no Peds residency. There has been more than one case reported on ValueMD of doctors denied a full medical licence and thus forced out of an attending or fellowship position because of this, so beware. My wife knows an AUC student who did cores and electives at Kern and since he wanted to practice in Texas had to retake Peds in his fourth year in NY some place.

Not sure if the second statement is true either (AUC may actually allow non-greenbook electives), but it is good advice regardless.