Brookdale Hospital, Brooklyn, NY

[ducman]

Brookdale Hospital, Brooklyn, NY

[swinginislanddoc]

I did the pediatrics rotation here and a few of my classmates did most of the other rotations there. Any questions?

[littleguy]

i'm scheduled to do my peds there next year....can you tell me what the hours were like, what sort of learning i can expect and your overall impression of the rotation? thanks!

[darkmansaad]

Is it possible to do your entire set of rotations at this hospital or any one NY hospital? This question has probably been answered in a hundred other threads but staying in NY is a big thing for me...

[swinginislanddoc]

First of all, sorry it has taken me so long to reply. I haven't been on the forum.

Second, I had a big long reply typed out and it got lost in cyberspace.

You do 6 weeks for Peds, as we all know. You work with one other Saba student on Peds and 18 Ross students. Start time varies depending on the week - Clinical, NICU, Peds ED, Adolescent ward, General Peds ward and PICU. Monday - Thursday there's a lecture at 3pm you have to be at. Dr. Bekkar will notice if you're missing. Every student does a presentation, topic to be assigned on the first couple of days.

WE didn't get to do a whole lot - even write notes. Some attendings let us do more than others. You take call but there is no place to stay so you can only stay until 11pm (it's not a safe neighborhood either). Most of the residents will sign your call card after an hour or two and let you go home. Once or twice a week there's a morning lecture/grand rounds. I also spent a lot of time in the library studying.

The hospital itself is old and poorly funded. You'll see a lot of social issues, you'll have to hunt down radiology films, have them read, etc. You come to appreciate other hospitals! Some people do most of their rotations there - so it is possible to stay in NYC if you want.

Best of luck,
Shauna

[GFLIP]

Hey Shauna,
What is the patient volume like, or more specifically, how many patients do you see per day?

[wolfvgang22]

Good question, G!
To S:
How is it working alongside Ross students?

[Gigi25]

Originally Posted by swinginislanddoc

First of all, sorry it has taken me so long to reply. I haven't been on the forum.

Second, I had a big long reply typed out and it got lost in cyberspace.

You do 6 weeks for Peds, as we all know. You work with one other Saba student on Peds and 18 Ross students. Start time varies depending on the week - Clinical, NICU, Peds ED, Adolescent ward, General Peds ward and PICU. Monday - Thursday there's a lecture at 3pm you have to be at. Dr. Bekkar will notice if you're missing. Every student does a presentation, topic to be assigned on the first couple of days.

WE didn't get to do a whole lot - even write notes. Some attendings let us do more than others. You take call but there is no place to stay so you can only stay until 11pm (it's not a safe neighborhood either). Most of the residents will sign your call card after an hour or two and let you go home. Once or twice a week there's a morning lecture/grand rounds. I also spent a lot of time in the library studying.

The hospital itself is old and poorly funded. You'll see a lot of social issues, you'll have to hunt down radiology films, have them read, etc. You come to appreciate other hospitals! Some people do most of their rotations there - so it is possible to stay in NYC if you want.

Best of luck,
Shauna

I'll be doing peds at Brookdale in April, so thanks for the post!

[swinginislanddoc]

Oh dear, I'm behind.

Okay, so working with Ross students wasn't bad at all. There's one other Sabanite so you're not there by yourself. Once we got to know them our group was a pretty cool crew. Most did not know much at all about Saba and had a lot of questions. In the end I think they gained a lot of respect for us.

Patient load - you don't get to do much on the rotation, but you may very well see a wide range of pathology (due to the low socioeconomic status of most of the population). Patient load is miniscule. Most of the time you can't even write progress notes (same at Lincoln). I think the most I had was in my last couple of weeks, on the adolescent and general wards - I followed maybe two patients.

I think one of the most frustrating things was watching all of these people on medicaid coming in all blinged and Nike-ed out. Even their kids....

~S

[Gigi25]

Originally Posted by swinginislanddoc

Oh dear, I'm behind.

Okay, so working with Ross students wasn't bad at all. There's one other Sabanite so you're not there by yourself. Once we got to know them our group was a pretty cool crew. Most did not know much at all about Saba and had a lot of questions. In the end I think they gained a lot of respect for us.

Patient load - you don't get to do much on the rotation, but you may very well see a wide range of pathology (due to the low socioeconomic status of most of the population). Patient load is miniscule. Most of the time you can't even write progress notes (same at Lincoln). I think the most I had was in my last couple of weeks, on the adolescent and general wards - I followed maybe two patients.

I think one of the most frustrating things was watching all of these people on medicaid coming in all blinged and Nike-ed out. Even their kids....

~S

Thanx ! I'm looking forward to the NYC, although Baltimore has been interesting so far. Thanks again for taking the time to post


Gina