General Q&A

[ducman]

You can post any topic of clinical interest in this General Q&A.

The format was changed to focus on our clinical sites and it has been very successful. Before the change, there was disorganized info in regards to clinical sites and not many views in this forum.

Since the reorganization, people are finding the info they seek pertaining to each site. If more sites need to be added, please send me a request.

Regards,

[GFLIP]

To those in clinicals,

What's a cheap health insurance that covers the basics for clinical rotations???

[ducman]

G...

Hope all has been well... check out HumanaOne - they are in most states and premiums are very reasonable.

-Mickey

[sonylarkhi]

Hey guys...

I was wondering if anyone had any information with regards to clinical sites in Georgia. I have been looking it up, but couldn't find anything. I could only find a partial list of affiliated hospitals. Does anyone have a more complete list of affiliated hospitals? Thanks

[GFLIP]

Originally Posted by ducman

check out HumanaOne

Darn... not in my state. thanks anyways M.

[GFLIP]

I was just wondering... has any SABA student done a core rotation here yet?

[oncojut]

I saw that someone above was asking about clinical sites in Georgia. I know of two such sites. The first is in Albany, Georgia. The hospital is Phoebe-Putney. Not too sure about the spelling on that one. The second site is the Family Medicine Residency Program in Rome, GA.

The Albany site is pretty good. They offer a few different rotations including FM, pediatrics, and OB/GYN I believe. I did six weeks of Sports Medicine in Albany. It was a fantastic rotation.

I'm not too familiar with the site in Rome. Although, I do know that one of my classmate rotated through and pre-match at that program. Hope that helps.

[sonylarkhi]

Hi guys,

I'm an applicant to SABA for the september '07 semester and I had a couple of questions about rotations. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

After completing basic sciences, do you pick your own clinical site for rotations or does the school set that up for you?

Do clinical sites have all the rotations within the one hospital or do you have to set up with the school a schedule of different hospitals to rotate through and are these hospitals more likely than not to be in different states?

How do you set up housing if you are to go from state to state for periods of weeks at a time?

Is each rotation within a hospital classified as greenbook, or is the hospital as a whole greenbook?

Is it necessary to do your rotations in a greenbook site? If not a greenbook site, what are the drawbacks of doing a rotation there?

I know these questions maybe common sense for many of you, and at the risk of sounding ignorant, my classification is "newbie" on valuemd so bear that in mind. Thanks!!!!

[ttwl]

hi
You are just applying to Saba on sept 07? It is still kind of early to worry that much about clinicals..
1) After basic science...for core rotations...you can choose the city and hospital to rotate through within those that are affiliated with Saba. So basically you cannot just choose random hospital that have no affiliations.. unless you try to set it up by yourself..which is hard. Electives you can do them pretty much anywhere you want.
2) Nope. You pretty much have to go to different hospitals and set up a schedule. But you can stay within a city. Like Kansas city or New york... or even Chicago. Some hospital i think you can do most of it there .. like Lincoln in NY but those are rare. most of us have to go to different
hospital
3) Housing is fairly easy to find.. on craiglist and school send you different options.
4) Each rotation is classified as greenbook not the whole hospital.
5) It is definitely better to do everything in greenbook rotations... especially your cores... else some states might reject you ... and you might have to repeat a core rotation...but well some states dont care.

aight later

[sonylarkhi]

Hey Thanks for the info....I'm trying to get ahead of the game because my husband is a dentist and we're trying to get an idea of where we'll be settling.....but nonetheless...thank you