Hospital/School Affiliations

[sisjay]

Not to sound ignorant, but I am learning by the day through this site...
Am I correct in assuming based on recent post that...

In order to get credit by the state you'd like to be licensed in, your core rotations must be done at a hospital that has a SPECIFIC AGREEMENT with the school that I attend?

Can anyone explain this process in detail?

Thanks

[Picard]

Yes, it must be a formal agreement of affiliation. The hospital must recognize your school as one of it's affiliates. It's NOT enough to just have a "contract" to train students for purely liability reasons.

Formal affiliation often means school having appointed clincal faculty members at the hospital, employing school DME's (Director of Med Ed)... etc.

P

[stephew]

your cores yes; and for some states all rotations, meaning your outside elective at harvard can't count towards your credits. Check individual states.

[neilc]

these are the exact reasons that all of my electives are not being counted for credits! what a pain...

i do everything at my home hospital, and take time in my summers and vacations to organzize rotations. i highly recommend that everyone going to a med school abroad does this, if it is possible.

[stephew]

sometimes you cant' case in point, a student from an offshore IMG place wanting to do radonc; he's going to have to do an elective at a place with a radonc residency. This will limit to some (fortunately minor) extent where he can go for residency statewise; for some, you have extra time and you can use that for said electives; finally, its been known to fineagal a "research" elective...during which you also happen to be rotating elsewhere. But you still have to produce from your "home" institution hospitals.
Steph