A Little Information on the Selection Process for Clinical Rotations

[Moto161]

For everyone coming from states without affiliated hospitals...
The selection process for clinical rotations is set up to give priority to residents of the states where the rotation is. So it doesn't really matter how well you did in the basic sciences if you're looking at a rotation for 10 students and there are already 10 students from that state with an interest in the rotation.
"Hypothetical" situation:
A 4.0 Nebraska state resident wishes to do a rotation at Banner Desert Medical in Arizona and Banner only has 6 spots. There are 6 2.0 Arizona State residents wishing to do the same rotation at the same time...The Nebraska resident will not be selected.
No matter what, one person will have to pick another rotation, and Ross' position is look at where you were born rather than at performance first. If you're not from the area with a decent affiliation you can pretty much count on being asked to do your rotations in New York City's worst hospitals. It's good news for slackers just interested in passing if you're from the area with an affiliation...with the exception of California, because that's 9 spots for at least 100 Californians at Ross.:)

[MissionaryMD]

Just wondering where you obtained this information...what you are basing your theory on.....

[Moto161]

The horses mouth...correspondence with the clinical rotation administration. If I'm mis-informed, please let me know.

[Moto161]

Question posed to administration:
"Is there any instance where a(n) [state w/out affiliation] resident would have first draw at a rotation offered by Ross?"

Answer from administration:
"Nope."

[FireFighterMD]

In that case then make sure you are from a state with a healthy supply of latina options .

In NY that would be roosevelt avenue in Jackson Heights ...$ 30 ..;)

[summerwind]

For everyone coming from states without affiliated hospitals...
The selection process for clinical rotations is set up to give priority to residents of the states where the rotation is. So it doesn't really matter how well you did in the basic sciences if you're looking at a rotation for 10 students and there are already 10 students from that state with an interest in the rotation.
"Hypothetical" situation:
A 4.0 Nebraska state resident wishes to do a rotation at Banner Desert Medical in Arizona and Banner only has 6 spots. There are 6 2.0 Arizona State residents wishing to do the same rotation at the same time...The Nebraska resident will not be selected.
No matter what, one person will have to pick another rotation, and Ross' position is look at where you were born rather than at performance first. If you're not from the area with a decent affiliation you can pretty much count on being asked to do your rotations in New York City's worst hospitals. It's good news for slackers just interested in passing if you're from the area with an affiliation...with the exception of California, because that's 9 spots for at least 100 Californians at Ross.:)

I don't think this is a fair way to assign clinical rotations....why should the "slacker" be rewarded? Plus, why should students from states without affilated hospitals be penalized?

[Somogyi]

I'm almost done with clinicals (couple weeks left) and thus far, I have never heard this before.. I'm not saying your making stuff up.. I'm just saying, I never heard of it before... From my own experience and from my friends, its always been who ever requests the rotation first gets precedence -- if there's too many requests for a spot, they usually look at board scores/GPA to determine who should get that seat... in some cases, they have made exceptions for those students who have family (ie married with children BUT not based on mom and dad being in the area).. But again, maybe things have changed since I have begun..

[sukhtinder]

It's a far cry from the world we thought we'd inherit
It's a far cry from the way we thought we'd share it
You can almost feel the current flowing
You can almost see the circuits blowing

One day I feel I'm on top of the world
And the next it's falling in on me
I can get back on
I can get back on
One day I feel I'm ahead of the wheel,
And the next it's rolling over me
I can get back on
I can get back on

-Neil Peart

[BrotherMan]

For everyone coming from states without affiliated hospitals...
The selection process for clinical rotations is set up to give priority to residents of the states where the rotation is. So it doesn't really matter how well you did in the basic sciences if you're looking at a rotation for 10 students and there are already 10 students from that state with an interest in the rotation.
"Hypothetical" situation:
A 4.0 Nebraska state resident wishes to do a rotation at Banner Desert Medical in Arizona and Banner only has 6 spots. There are 6 2.0 Arizona State residents wishing to do the same rotation at the same time...The Nebraska resident will not be selected.
No matter what, one person will have to pick another rotation, and Ross' position is look at where you were born rather than at performance first. If you're not from the area with a decent affiliation you can pretty much count on being asked to do your rotations in New York City's worst hospitals. It's good news for slackers just interested in passing if you're from the area with an affiliation...with the exception of California, because that's 9 spots for at least 100 Californians at Ross.:)

If that were the case, then I would be in maryland doing my rotations instead of being in Godforsaken NYC.

[tno77]

yeah no matter how good or how bad you do, you end up doing your rotations in the greatest dump of all, NYC.

[futuremdsomewhere]

You can always setup up rotations on your own in non affil programs. There are so many out there you can do most if not all. Plus I never had a problem requesting any rotation that I wanted, my homestate had zero affil programs. The process is a first come first serve process except a couple of the hospitals like kern county, ca where there is an application process. That is by board score/gpa not by being a ca resident. I know a couple of non california residents who went there. There are so many rotations now there shouldnt be a problem, they just added most cores in GA as well.