you guys haven't heard the other side of the story, wait for mitchdc and jim comment on how ross clinicals are the better than amerian medical school clinical sites lol.

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Please un-ban Preppystud, Woodbridge, Bob2k, and Rajpatel, they were the most elite members of valueMD...sbturner is my hero

The problem is due to many thing in my opinion:

1-Ross keeps adding more students and doesn't add staff to service the students or to go at get proper Clinical sites.

2-The good US hospitals are affiated with good US medical schools and have no room for Ross students in clinicals.

3-The most important factor , especially in the New York area is that many hospitals are going Bankrupt or being closed by the state which further decreases the number of hospitals available as clinical sites.

4-Of course all of this only matters if you want to get licensed in certain states. If not then doing all rotations at ACGME hospitals doesn't matter. Of course there is the other confusing aspect, which has never been explained adequately and that is if a hospital has FP acgme rotation then are all the rotations accepted by most state licensing boards.

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When you become my age you will realize all of the hard work and studying was worth the effort.
"60 years young" another 60 to go if my doctor sons keep me alive with free prescriptions!!

Ross is great, the clincal dept is great!
Ross is great, the clincal dept is great!
Ross is great, the clincal dept is great!
Ross is great, the clincal dept is great!
Ross is great, the clincal dept is great!
Ross is great, the clincal dept is great!
Ross is great, the clincal dept is great!
Ross is great, the clincal dept is great!
Ross is great, the clincal dept is great!
Ross is great, the clincal dept is great!
Ross is great, the clincal dept is great!
Ross is great, the clincal dept is great!
Ross is great, the clincal dept is great!
Ross is great, the clincal dept is great!
Ross is great, the clincal dept is great!
Ross is great, the clincal dept is great!
Ross is great, the clincal dept is great!
Ross is great, the clincal dept is great!
Ross is great, the clincal dept is great!
Ross is great, the clincal dept is great!
Ross is great, the clincal dept is great!

LOL, believe it because it is on this forum, Ross gave me everything, I did nothing!

Don't worry hun - just " get to know your local coordinators as Shelly does " - make friends as she puts it - and in today's world many things come with friendships " ..benefits .u may still be left with literally a bitter taste in your mouth ) but u'll get your rotation

sad......but in some cases......true....

Way to go NewB.....welcome to the world of optimism

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Smile a while, and while you Smile, others will smile and there will be miles and miles of smiles, just because YOU smiled.

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

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Ross University School of Medicine, MS4

Step 1: 260/99
Step 2CK: 236/98
GPA: 3.91

Stuck between Surgery, Neurosurg, Ortho, and Sports Medicine (Through Family Med)...

Has anyone ever used outside services to obtain clerkship rotations? I came across the Medical Consultant Group at Home - Clinical Rotations for International Medical Students and Graduates from GMCGroup has anyone heard of this one and how is it? thanks

I don't know who you are or where you are from but here at ROSS , the students pay the school directly for clinical rotations .

We don't go through a third party and hopefully that will never have to be the case .

Its actually quite disappointing. So many of the problems with the clinical department can be managed externally. For example, the majority of 4th year students are calling about their last rotations and advice about timelines and the such for the match. If they would just post everything a students needs to know about the match, timelines, information about deans letters, USMLE step II on the ross website it would make such a difference. In addition, I would like all clinical grades posted online. Every school in the Caribbean has managed to meet with their clinical department at a common rotation site. I have not heard of a single meeting where a ross advisor comes to a hospital (wyckoff) and speaks to all the students about problems concerns and answers questions. This is how you keep students informed. This is how you keep approval rates high. We are not on the island anymore and jersey is but a 40 minute drive from NYC. Its sad that i actually look at the graduate medical education office at the hospital as my advisor.
Why does ross not have SHELF exams??? I am baffled. Oh, thats right, our tuition would have to go up 1000.00 bucks AGAIN. There was such a push in basic sciences for all these shelf exams, and now that we are in clinicals, nothing, not a thing.

I am truly dissapointed with ROSS and how a big business such as theirs manages their customers. I can not wait to be done with ross.

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