St. Mary's Hospital, Waterbury, CT

[spaslam]

anyone done surg at St. Mary's in Waterbury, Conn.? If so, pls share your experiences if u wish, either here, or my email spaslam@yahoo.com . also could do so here:

http://www.scutwork.com

thank you!

[ducman]

St. Mary's Hospital, Waterbury, CT

[TMI]

hey
i'll be surgery there on april 23rd, 2007. does anyone know a place i can rent near the hospital for 3 months?

thanks
lutz

and what books are good for surgery rotation?

[TMI]

hey
i'm oing to do surgery here. does anyone know anything about it? any firsthand experiences?
thanks
lutz

[AxlFoley]

There are a couple books that are supposed to be alright. One that I keep hearing about though is "surgical recall". I have a used version of that from a current 2nd year resident, but havent really looked at it.

[PAtoMD]

Has anyone done surgery here recently? How is the experience, schedule, teaching etc? Where do you live? What books do you use? Thank you

[PAtoMD]

Does anyone have any housing info? Where do people live when rotating there? Thanks

[hopeful786]

hi,
I recently did my rotation at St. Mary's. If you want to be a Surgeon then this is the rotation for you. If you don't want to be a Surgeon, please do yourself a favour and don't go here.

Schedule is as follows or was for me anyway, depending on the number of students the on calls change.

Wake up at 3:30 am get to the Hospital by 4:30am, round on 3-5 patients. Official rounds start 6am, present everything about the patients and if you don't know your stuff, then get ready to be pounded.

Scrub into cases 7:30am till whenever there are no more cases... usually until 4:00pm...

Then afternoon rounds start... not expected to present your patient... but a good idea to know what is going on with your patients for the following morning, because outherwise you are going to be pounded...

Alternate days For instance...
OR/ER/OR/Floor/OR/ER/OR... this was my schedule because I had q4 and post call are the Floor days... Post calls are NOT OFF...

OR days were awesome... got to see and dooo many things..
(OR there is the Surgeon, One Resident(any), YOU, and Scrub Nurse) That it baby... So you are right in middle of it all, no standing 5 feet away.
And there are usually cases that go unscrubbed because not enough students...
OR
General/HEENT/Neurology are mandatory...
Ortho/Urology/Plastic/Optho(awesome) if no mandatory OR cases are available then can scrub into these.

WEDNESDAYS are academic days... basically nothing much happens.

Oh and food is free...

Assessment
1 presentation
1 oral exam
1 written exam
Resident evaluation...

Teaching... not so great
Learning opportunities... ample... you have to be motivated otherwise this rotation is a waste of time.

Guaranteed you will sleep less then you have ever slept during these 3 months.