Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota

[wolfvgang22]

Ok, I'm sold. I'll be there for Christmas.

[wolfvgang22]

Originally Posted by js_paramedic_1979

It should be strict Greenbook... I'm rotating with U of MN peds residents.. I didn't search it out before I started, but I'm almost 100% sure it is strict..

University of Minnesota Program [3202621120]
University of Minnesota
Mayo Mail Code 391
420 Delaware Street, SE
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

Sponsoring Institution: University of Minnesota Medical School
Specialty: Pediatrics

Combined Program(s):
[7002614034] University of Minnesota Program (Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

[wolfvgang22]

I've been here at Children's Hospital Minneapolis for 3 weeks now of a 6 week rotation and so far its a great rotation. So far perhaps the best rotation I've had the opportunity to experience in med school. Students here are valued and given a lot of responsibility but also a good amount of supervision that is not overly critical but instructive and supportive.
A day goes like this: Show up at 7:30 and find out from the call team what happened overnight with your patients. Then you see your own patients all morning and present the patient to your assigned senior resident and formulate a plan, and then you present directly to the attending physician with your SOAP note. Finally you call your senior resident back and inform them of any changes the attending would like and implement the plan. In the afternoon you attend didactic lectures for about 3 hours. And the lectures are tailored for us, mostly about basic stuff we need to learn about pediatrics, not some video conference lecture intended for 3rd year residents. After lectures you follow up on any patient care issues, check out to your senior resident and call team, and go home.
No following overwhelmed or overworked interns around at all!
No teaching rounds where you walk around the hospital all day and watch other people take care of patients and occasionaly pimp you the millisecond you get tired or bored! People do ask you what your plan of care is, but its because they really expect you to help implement the plan. You round on your own set of 4 to 5 patients that you admitted when on call every 4th day, so you know the whole story from start to finish with few missing pieces. Students write progress notes, write orders in the chart that the resident co-signs, and is the first line of care for the patient (after the nurses, of course). You even get to dictate discharge summaries, something many hospitals never allow students to learn. Students here get exposed to and learn from nurses, residents, attendings, and other staff.
I'm very pleased so far that I came here for pediatrics.

[MrChem]

I'm a long way from that stage, but still thanks a lot for the info, wolf