Reese Medical Center, Chicago

[Dru]

Reese Medical Center, Chicago

[valuevmd]

how is the IM rotation here?

[smashweasel]

Has anyone done rotations here? I just got accepted to Ross and my in-laws are asking about rotations that I might do in their area. Anyway......

[rifster]

Hows the OB rotation at Michael Reese if any of you has done it there. I start OB on Jan 29th.

Thanks
Arif

[rifster]

Has anyone done OB at Michael Reese, if so can you please tell how it is.

Thanks
Arif

[razorback831]

Haven't done it, but a couple friends of mine have. They tell me you will catch as many babies as you want. Somewhat weak on Gyne and the majority of the patient population is Spanish only speaking. Hope that helps.

[ERMD5]

I've done it. Loved it......while studying for boards I felt like I was extremenly well prepared for it. Scored pretty high on my OB/Gyne sections.
I'd recommend it for sure. Definately see a lot of action while u r there.
You do have a fair share of patients who don't speak anythign but spanish, but its not as bad as Miami.

[butters]

I myself haven't done the rotation but I've known a lot of people who have done both OB/Gyn and IM.

IM is broken up into 6 weeks inpatient and 6 weeks outpatient. I'm not sure how often call is but it is a short call. No overnight. You stay until 10 p.m. You are broken up into groups and are assigned a resident. Depending on who the attending is supervising the resident and you, that is how many patients you will have to follow (some attendings have more patients than others). The groups that start IM at Michael Reese are fairly big (10-15 students). Attendings do didactic lectures 2-3 times per week. Most of your dealings are with the residents directly. Lots of opportunities to do IV's, Blood Draws, etc.

OB/Gyn is Q4 and from what I've heard, you can do a lot as far as delivering. Each week you are on a different service so you will rotate through Labor/Delivery, Gyne, Clinic. The attending in charge supposedly gives great lectures.

Michael Reese does have a large Spanish speaking population but definitely not as much as St. Anthony's. JPH is almost all English speakers. Housing at Reese is convenient b/c most students and residents live in the complex right behind the hospital.

Hope this info helps.

[popozao]

how are you supposed to get a rec letter if you never interact with the attending?

i don't think resident evals count for much

[Junito]

I heard that even the attendings eval don't count as much either unless they are a program director (or assistant PD).

[awdc]

Does anyone know if we can do an ICU rotation at Reese? And if so, any ideas as to who we call to schedule it?

[Gregorito75]

I did IM. Divided in 6 weeks in-patient (telemetry and GMF) and 6 weeks outpatient clinic of your choice. EVERY student is assigned to 2 residents team (one intern and one 2nd or 3rd year). Calls are q4, you stay maybe up to 10pm. There are pre-calls (you may need to do some admissions) and post call days (usually the shortest days). Most of residents are really nice but of course you may find a few, well you know... Most residents are FMGs. Resident rotations last 4 weeks so you may end up doing 4 weeks GMF and 2 weeks Tele, or vice-versa. I wanted 4wks of GMF (tele was way too boring for me). Lectures for med students are 2x week (each student must prepare presentation from a list of topics, some will also need to present cases). In addition, every day there are lectures/presentations at 8am and then at 12 noon (light breakfast and lunch, most of the time) for residents/students. Lots of oportunities to learn.
Overall great experience, but you won't get to do procedures (although you will see a bunch) since you are competing with eager interns/residents.

For the outpatient clinic.. it depends who you choose. I did mine with one of the associate directors of residency there, Dr. Sarma. It was a great experience, lots of independence in H&P and management, you basically do everything from greeting the patient to writing orders/prescriptions, then you present and she agress/corrects some of the steps = great prep for Step2 CS. Other choices are other assoc director (if you speak spanish, his clinic is in "little mexico"), HIV specialist clinic, other attendings' clinics. Hope it helps.

Elective rotations are probably filled all the way till May 2008 now. They were filled through dec 2007 as of nov 2006. ICU is one of the choices. $100 refundable holding fee/per elective for students who did not go through IM core with them

[cdnzed]

Has anyone completed their OB/GYN here recently? How was it? With the hospital's impending closure, how is the support staff at the hospital?