Banner Desert Medical Clinic, Mesa, Arizona

[tno77]

Originally Posted by DrunkenDancer

What office have you called 23 times!? If you stay on the line at Ross someone will eventually pick up so you can talk to a person. If you call the Arizona site they will politely tell you that nothing is setup yet. But, it may be in the future. . . I think there is something going on in Georgia, only they are taking only a couple students is the thing.

You'd be surprised how many rotations listed on the student hospital affiliation list (the one available only on myRoss) DON'T ACTUALLY EXIST.

A number of hospitals list that they have all cores and a number of electives. Further investigation reveals that Ross students are not allowed to schedule any of them.

The list is a farce and just exists to give the impression that Ross has a large and complete affiliation list.

[cavalletti]

Originally Posted by tno77

You'd be surprised how many rotations listed on the student hospital affiliation list (the one available only on myRoss) DON'T ACTUALLY EXIST.

A number of hospitals list that they have all cores and a number of electives. Further investigation reveals that Ross students are not allowed to schedule any of them.

Can you be more specific about which sites? Could it be that these locations must be booked through Ross' clinical department only?

[DrunkenDancer]

Originally Posted by cavalletti

Can you be more specific about which sites? Could it be that these locations must be booked through Ross' clinical department only?

Alot of the affiliated sites offer only fourth year electives, and offer them to basicallly any IMG, not just Ross, and require lengthy paperwork to be filled out. Banner specifically doesn't have any Ross students rotating there, yet, i.e. you can't schedule this with New Jersey or with Banner. I proposed calling these sites, "ghost sites", as they are on the list, but Ross students really can't do electives there.

[DrVinsk]

You are wrong. I am referring to the NJ office. If you stay on the line you will eventually be given a chance to leave a message. Then if you stay on line more, you simple repeat that horrible Billy Ocean music then end up leaving another message...it's a recorded loop. While the advisers sit there and chat, make meat patties, etc...they just leave the loop going. When they get back to their offices, they just hit "delete all messages" then return to what they were doing and the process starts over again. My personal record was a little over 2 hours....I put my phone on speaker and watched a movie while waiting.....no answer.......ever.

[jakebrake54]

Originally Posted by DrunkenDancer

What office have you called 23 times!? If you stay on the line at Ross someone will eventually pick up so you can talk to a person. If you call the Arizona site they will politely tell you that nothing is setup yet. But, it may be in the future. . . I think there is something going on in Georgia, only they are taking only a couple students is the thing.

There are rotations going on in GA. I am here doing them. They are alright. I have done Psych, Ob/Gyn, 2 surgery electives, and am now in ER elective. The psych was very laid back and chill, which is good for studying and if you have no desire to do psych that it is ok. Ob was spent working in an outpatient setting on M-W and then on call at Atlanta Medical Center where you would get to do deliveries. I personally got to do about 15 deliveries, and by doing them, I got to do everything including some suturing of episiotomies after the baby was out. You also get to scrub in on C-sections and hysterectomies, and cold knifes, etc. If the attending has deliveries at Crawford then you also get to go. I know there are some other students who are doing OB/Gyn here who are rotating with a Gyn/Onc physician who does a pretty cool procedure with the da vinci robot, where he does surgeries without touching the patient but a robot does. With that one there are no deliveries. The ER rotation is at Dekalb Medical Center in both HIllandale and Decatur. It has been pretty good so far. You work one on one with the attendings who are all very eager to teach and to let you do procedures from LP's to sutures to wound stapling. It is pretty fun. There are very few limited spaces in GA, I think maybe 10 Ross students are here, but it is building up and it sounds like Ross is working to get more sites, cores, and electives. Rent is pretty reasonable here and it is a great city.

[DrunkenDancer]

Originally Posted by jakebrake54

There are rotations going on in GA. I am here doing them. They are alright. I have done Psych, Ob/Gyn, 2 surgery electives, and am now in ER elective. The psych was very laid back and chill, which is good for studying and if you have no desire to do psych that it is ok. Ob was spent working in an outpatient setting on M-W and then on call at Atlanta Medical Center where you would get to do deliveries. I personally got to do about 15 deliveries, and by doing them, I got to do everything including some suturing of episiotomies after the baby was out. You also get to scrub in on C-sections and hysterectomies, and cold knifes, etc. If the attending has deliveries at Crawford then you also get to go. I know there are some other students who are doing OB/Gyn here who are rotating with a Gyn/Onc physician who does a pretty cool procedure with the da vinci robot, where he does surgeries without touching the patient but a robot does. With that one there are no deliveries. The ER rotation is at Dekalb Medical Center in both HIllandale and Decatur. It has been pretty good so far. You work one on one with the attendings who are all very eager to teach and to let you do procedures from LP's to sutures to wound stapling. It is pretty fun. There are very few limited spaces in GA, I think maybe 10 Ross students are here, but it is building up and it sounds like Ross is working to get more sites, cores, and electives. Rent is pretty reasonable here and it is a great city.

You might want to post this to the Georgia site thread, this thread is about the future possiblity of doing electives in Arizona, which pretty hard to do, if not impossible, to do. . .

[Aggiemd2b]

Are these issues still the case with this place ? I just got the school catalog and it says everything can be done at this location? I am trying to pick one place to stay with my family and thought this would be a great option.

[Aggiemd2b]

Okay guys, anyone know about this site? Anything new, give a morsal, a crumb.....please

[Aggiemd2b]

Bump, still waiting?

[hopefulmd2]

Everyone. I looked into this site for clinical rotations. This site does not even exist anymore. The hospital closed its doors in September 2007 permanently. So i do not understand why Ross is still listing this as one of their clinical sites. And there are no other sites in Arizona that Ross is afiliated with for clinicals. So at this point Arizona is completely out of the equation. Someone needs to contact Ross about this and have them remove this off their list so it does not get people confused.