Saba Clinical Sciences

[Dharma]

Hello,

I am a current Saba student [basic sciences] and was reading through the Clinical forums. I was hoping to get some input from current Saba students who are rotating in the US. I've been hearing that Saba is losing some reputable clinical spots, but have not heard anything about Saba acquiring any new ones. Can someone please comment on this. Also, how do you feel the quality of education is at the hospitals you are rotating at? I'm sure that some are better than others for different specialties, but I was just looking for a general consensus. Which other schools do you usually rotate with, provided that it's a major hospital.

Thanks in advance...

[wolfvgang22]

Quality of rotations vary a great deal. This is true whether you are a U.S. student or a Saba student. We rotate at U.S. teaching hospitals, the same places U.S. students at the local med school rotate. In my own experience I have either rotated by myself one on one with staff, with other Saba students, or with U.S. students. I like rotating with U.S. students because it makes me look smart. I sometimes don't like rotating with other Saba students because then I look dumb. :D

All the hospitals we rotate at are thus ACGME accredited hospitals with qualified staff. If you want to know precisely which U.S. schools rotate at the hospitals Saba students rotate at it's easy: look online for the closest U.S. med school to that hospital, that's usually it.

Some of these rotations I would not wish on my worst enemy; like the OB/GYN rotation where I had a chief resident who hated every male student she saw and always picks one to haze. Others are excellent rotations for some students and not for others, like the very academic internal medicine rotation I did that would have been fantastic for a 4th or late 3rd year student but was very difficult for students fresh out of basic sciences. And still others are student-centric and are so well organized and educational with plenty of support that you find yourself wanting to join their specialty. I always post the positive things I have to say about a rotation in the clinical forum here. I usually don't post about the negatives too much, to be politic.

Regarding the loss of clinical sites: I can't really say if that is affecting anybody, I haven't heard that it has on my end. Of course, I am in the mid-west and have zero interest in doing clinicals in New York. Maybe others who have been outside of the mid-west have other views.