St. Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, MO

[swinginislanddoc]

Originally Posted by wolfvgang22

So I'm getting ready to start IM at St. Lukes. They divide up their IM rotations into two groups - purple, which has a third month that emphasizes nephrology, and orange, which emphasizes infectious disease during the last few weeks.
My question is to anybody who has already done IM at St. Luke's:
What's the difference? Do you recommend one over the other?

Thanks.
~W

I did both orange and purple at St. Luke's. They didn't do anything like that while I was there. Actually I started on Orange, which is slower and you take the patients of the doctors in a certain clinic - don't recall a week of nephro but that might have changed. Then I did a month of nephro, which was my second rotation of all and man, that was hard! THEN I did purple, which has a LOT more patients and two teams - purple takes patients who are either assigned to one of the docs in the multispecialty clinic OR patients who do not have a doctor, meaning if it's not an orange patient, it goes to purple so purple admits most of the people from the ER. It's a lot busier. I don't recall an emphasis on infectious disease unless someone gave a lecture on antibiotics or something....

Best of luck!
~S

[wolfvgang22]

Good info, thanks!

[swinginislanddoc]

Originally Posted by wolfvgang22

Good info, thanks!

No problemo. That's what we're here for!

[wolfvgang22]

Currently rotating in Infectious Disease here now. Good rotation, good teaching on rounds, no formal lectures. We do lots of renal and heart transplant consults to help stratify risk for the procedure in addition to the regular patients. Basically get to function as an intern, lots of autonomy. Call only two days for the whole month. Typically arrive 6am, leave by 6pm on average. 30 patients at any one time. 4 to 8 consults per day, split between me and one intern. Some months they have 2 fellows, a resident, and an intern, and two students, some months (like this month) we have just one intern and one student. It's busier in the winter (duh). It's greenbook by specialty.

[md2be123]

Hi All,

I'll be starting IM at St Lukes Nov 1.

Anyone have any leads on a 2 bedroom apartment around the St Lukes area?

Thanks!

[bond]

Is that you asking LA guju?

[jay.shah.222]

Any info regard IM at VA in KC will be awesome. I'll be starting there in Nov. and don't know what to expect. Is it better or worse off than St. Lukes. I hope I get enough exposure there. How far are the 2 hospitals from eachother? I hope I don't only see PT over 60. Please help relieve some axiety.



JS

[Gigi25]

Does anyone know if St. Luke's has a surgery core available? If so, does anyone have any feedback about the hours, teaching, call schedule etc.

Thanx

G

[wolfvgang22]

Hey Gigi - it' been a month since you've posted, but PM me and I can give you the low down, spent most of the last year at St. Luke's.
~W

[WaterDoctor]

What campus for St. Lukes are the majority of rotations? I am looking at locations for housing and would be nice to stay central if there are multiple campuses or nearby if just a single campus.