Waiting for Core sites?

[Macgyver1]

What is everyones experience waiting for core sites to open? Did you have to wait extended peroids (1-2 months) or were they back to back? How wiling was MEAS to schedule you at same location if possible?

Thanks Guys!!

[Skipper]

they are willing to schedule you in the same location as long as they have all the cores in that location...for instance baltimore does not have ob/gyn and peds so you will have to go to NY or somewhere else for those rotations and you may have a break in btw....i went back to back for im and surgery then i had a couple months of electives followed by psych then ob/gyn and peds....so basically i have gone back to back

if you go to NY you can go back to back because they have alot more sites about there

skipper

[AUCMD2006]

once you get IM and Surgery done any breaks in between can be filled with almost any elective so you can go through all the way. i HIGHLY recommend taking a few weeks off here and there...i went straight through, took step 2 CS during a rotation and only took off 2 weeks to study for step 2 and i was exhausted...now i am rested but bored out of my mind with not much to do til residency...i even started watching ER---i feel so dirty

[DrShikima]

once you get IM and Surgery done any breaks in between can be filled with almost any elective so you can go through all the way. i HIGHLY recommend taking a few weeks off here and there...i went straight through, took step 2 CS during a rotation and only took off 2 weeks to study for step 2 and i was exhausted...now i am rested but bored out of my mind with not much to do til residency...i even started watching ER---i feel so dirty

You heathen. Next thing we're gonna hear is that your watching House or Grey's Anatomy.

[microphage]

once you get IM and Surgery done any breaks in between can be filled with almost any elective so you can go through all the way. i HIGHLY recommend taking a few weeks off here and there...i went straight through, took step 2 CS during a rotation and only took off 2 weeks to study for step 2 and i was exhausted...now i am rested but bored out of my mind with not much to do til residency...i even started watching ER---i feel so dirty

ditto... I'm so bored... I've even contemplated about studying for step 3

:shock:

[AUCMD2006]

ditto... I'm so bored... I've even contemplated about studying for step 3

:shock:


already started...i;m on page 20 of psych...pathetic isn't it? before med school i would be hammered on fort lauderdale beach nightly and lovin every puke filled minute

[MushieCookie]

ditto... I'm so bored... I've even contemplated about studying for step 3

:shock:

Don't do it!!! Enjoy your time off you crazy ba$tard!!!

[Scientific]

It depends. If you are waiting for a specific site, you may have to wait. The good thing is that while you wait, you can do electives. Family Practice, Pathology, Psych & Anesthesiology are 3 that I know off-hand that you can do before your cores and not feel lost. Neuro may even be possible. On the other hand, if you are not particular on where you want to go, then there are a TON of sites in New York so I don't see any reason why you couldn't get cores scheduled ASAP and back to back rather easily there. Another option that some students did... If you wanted to do your cores at a specific site but had a gap of a month or so, you could go to New York and do an elective out there and then get back in time to start your "regular" location. For some reason, it's much faster to schedule electives in NY. Personally, I haven't had any problems as far as scheduling back to back thus far. Just be willing to travel for a couple weeks here and there if need be and you shouldn't have a problem. Well, but then again, I'm single with no kids so I guess it's easier for me to move around lol. Anyway, good luck.

[teratos]

already started...i;m on page 20 of psych...pathetic isn't it? before med school i would be hammered on fort lauderdale beach nightly and lovin every puke filled minute


Why on earth are you studying psych? Is THAT what you darned kids call "high yield" these days? G

[microphage]

Why on earth are you studying psych? Is THAT what you darned kids call "high yield" these days? G


rrod is still trying to count how many Axis I's he has...

[AUCMD2006]

:shock: rrod is still trying to count how many Axis I's he has...

i'm still filling in all my axis I disorders.....

i just want to start with the leats thing i'd want to study so psych and ethics are first...the earlier i study ethics the sooner i forget them before residnecy starts:twisted:

[grace]

rrod is still trying to count how many Axis I's he has...

Yeah and you may give him a complex if you keep calling him by the wrong name...:roll:

[AUCMD2006]

Yeah and you may give him a complex if you keep calling him by the wrong name...:roll:


i'm already narcissistic and i have a troubling addiction to 1980's muscle cars that put out about as much power as a current civic and have the gas mileage of a tank...i don't need any more problems

[microphage]

i'm already narcissistic and i have a troubling addiction to 1980's muscle cars that put out about as much power as a current civic and have the gas mileage of a tank...i don't need any more problems


those are more Axis IIs...

[teratos]

rrod is still trying to count how many Axis I's he has...


If it's taking this long for Axis I, how long is it going to take for Axis II ???