Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota

[ducman]

Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota

[js_paramedic_1979]

From what I know, this is a pretty new rotation for Saba.. I'm headed here for PEDS on July 16th.. I was hoping to hear some firsthand info about the rotation and/or housing.. Thanks in advance..
Take care,
JS

[joelpi]

I'm currently finishing off a Peds core rotation at Children's. It is a good learning experience, but they work the students very hard. Students are placed in teams with a senior resident and an intern. Teams are on call every 4 days, including weekends and holidays. When their team is on call students are required to start work at 7:30am (8am on weekends) and must stay at the hospital until 1:30pm the following day. On call days I have typically gotten no more than 3 hours sleep and in some cases I have gotten only an hour. There is no cap on the number of patients that can be admitted during call days and so my team has had up to 19 admissions on occasions.

Weekdays work starts at 7:30am and students not on call are usually done by 3:30pm. Weekdays include case presentations/lectures from 11am-2pm. The quality of the didactics is mostly very good. Students also have the opportunity to visit the neonatal nursery in the morning a couple of times during the rotation.

Free lunch is served daily, but the quality of the food is not great. A meal card is also provided for call days and there is free parking in the hospital garage.

I can't comment on accomodation in Minneapolis as I have been staying with family.

I would certainly recommend this rotation. Students are treated with respect and are given a lot of responsibility for patient care. However, as I mentioned, students are required to work very hard during this rotation.

[MinnesotaMed]

I'm was very excited to see this posted!!! I am only in 2nd semester, so I have a long way to go, but I am glad to see that Saba has a clinical rotation in Minnesota. I am from Minnesota, so it would be nice to do a clinical rotation there. I have been to a couple of the Children's hospitals doing volunteer work and shadowing. The people there were always amazing!

[GFLIP]

joelpi, which location, st **** or minneapolis?

[Ferrarijp]

Minneapolis

[wolfvgang22]

Call Q4....guess it could be worse....could be Q3.
Glad there is another option for peds now. Thanks joelpi for the description!

[js_paramedic_1979]

So far the rotation has been great.. Call is q4, but it hasn't been bad.. I hear that the winter months are busier which only makes sense.. In the last 3 weeks my team has had the most admissions in comparison to the other groups while on call.. 16 was the most admissions and that was divided between 1 intern and 3 students... The learning environment seems to be exceptional... Locating housing for the short 6 wks may be the toughest challenge. I think it may be possible to do electives here as well.

[wolfvgang22]

Hey, is this one greenbook by specialty or just plain greenbook under FP?

[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..