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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
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01-16-2007, 08:50 PM
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