Saba Clinical Experiences

[ducman]

Please post all general discussion regarding medical clerkship experience in this thread. If you have a question and/or experience regarding a specific site, please post in the appropriate threads below.

Also, please PM me if you would like me to add a site where you have done a clerkship and would like to share.

Regards,

[arfster]

I read in the Brookdale thread that you work w/one other saba student in that hospital. Is this the norm. Do most of our rotations only place like a couple of saba students together. And which rotations have larger(or smaller) groups of saba students clumped together. I know its a dumb q. Just wondering if i'll be keeping in touch personally or still thru e-mail

[swinginislanddoc]

Originally Posted by arfster

I read in the Brookdale thread that you work w/one other saba student in that hospital. Is this the norm. Do most of our rotations only place like a couple of saba students together. And which rotations have larger(or smaller) groups of saba students clumped together. I know its a dumb q. Just wondering if i'll be keeping in touch personally or still thru e-mail

Every place is different. In Kansas City you'll see Saba students all over the place but most of the time I was on any particular rotation by myself (as the only Saba student working with US med students). At Brookdale there are other Saba students who are on other rotations at different times. Lincoln has six Saba students at one time and one of my classmates did a lot of his other cores there. In Hollywood FL (surgery) there were varying numbers of Saba students depending on who started when and who was doing cores/electives. Cherry had several Sabanites at one time.

My class actually set up a Google group when we first left the island that's open only to our class. Sometimes we still talk on there too, but you mostly stay in touch with classmates via e-mail/IM/cell phones.

Best of luck!
~S

[js_paramedic_1979]

St. Mary's Health Center, St. Louis, MO = 1 Saba student at a time. There are several grads in the program though..

[codered]

Just finished IM in Rochester 3 months ago.
I want to let people know that this hospital is awesome. Lots of teaching. Each student carries about 3 to 5 patients. You are allowed to write progress notes and you present to the attendings. You should be able to present case in 10 minutes and they teach you how, I wish Saba would focus more on clinical, I was so lost on the 1st week, and all these U of R med. student just kinda laughed at you. You are in control of management of the patients with R3, you write orders, discharge notes...etc.

Free lunch everyday and if you are nice to the pharm. rep., they bring text books to the students. Don't buy anything, they will give them to you FREE if you ask.

You won't have time to study becuase you work from 7 to 6 Monday to Saturday. Your attending will take you and the residents out for dinner at the end of each month if you do a good job on patients (ie no one died)

I had so fun here and learned so much

CB

[doctor2007]

Originally Posted by codered

Just finished IM in Rochester 3 months ago.
I want to let people know that this hospital is awesome. Lots of teaching. Each student carries about 3 to 5 patients. You are allowed to write progress notes and you present to the attendings. You should be able to present case in 10 minutes and they teach you how, I wish Saba would focus more on clinical, I was so lost on the 1st week, and all these U of R med. student just kinda laughed at you. You are in control of management of the patients with R3, you write orders, discharge notes...etc.

Free lunch everyday and if you are nice to the pharm. rep., they bring text books to the students. Don't buy anything, they will give them to you FREE if you ask.

You won't have time to study becuase you work from 7 to 6 Monday to Saturday. Your attending will take you and the residents out for dinner at the end of each month if you do a good job on patients (ie no one died)

I had so fun here and learned so much

CB

I hope you mean "no one died" as a joke. This is medicine. Last I checked complicated patients unfortunately do die. Either you meant it as a joke or your patiens were to easy and uncomplicated, making that rotation really a waste of your time. Just my output.

[ducman]

Relevant clinical experiences only in this thread... discussions on other topics can take place in the relaxing lounge.

Thank you for the post on the IM rotation in Rochester.

[codered]

You are right!! I should not make that comment "no one died". I apologized.

I would not say my rotation was waste of time compare to my classmates doing IM in other places.

[brava]

I love RGH. I agreed with codered.

Take it easy, doctor2007!!

[Dalal]

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