Thread: St. George Clinical Question

Hello everyone, I just got into St. George for Jan 08. I'd like to know if getting clinical rotations on time is because of a good SGU clinical dept. or is it because students take matter into their own hands and find their own rotations. Also, to what extent does SGU's basic sciences help during clinical?

The reason I ask is because I've read a survey of SGU's students about the school's pros and cons. The one con that sticks out is that, often time, students have to find their own rotations. Now, is this a problem with SGU's admin (i.e lack of organization, lack of effort) or is it a problem with simply not having enough clinical spots (thus causing students to be more proactive and compete to get the rotations)?

Thanks everyone.

they give you the clinical cores in a pretty timely way,.

Originally Posted by roundtuitless

Hello everyone, I just got into St. George for Jan 08. I'd like to know if getting clinical rotations on time is because of a good SGU clinical dept. or is it because students take matter into their own hands and find their own rotations. Also, to what extent does SGU's basic sciences help during clinical?

The reason I ask is because I've read a survey of SGU's students about the school's pros and cons. The one con that sticks out is that, often time, students have to find their own rotations. Now, is this a problem with SGU's admin (i.e lack of organization, lack of effort) or is it a problem with simply not having enough clinical spots (thus causing students to be more proactive and compete to get the rotations)?

Thanks everyone.

SGU sets you up with your core rotations, and you have to find and schedule your electives i.e. 4th year on your own, but it's really easy to set up and most people do them at the same place they do their cores. The clinical department is kind of a mess but they get the job done eventually. There are plenty of spots for all SGU students so don't worry about that. To what extent do the basic science help during clinicals? well you learn everything you use in clinicals during your basic science years, also you can't do your clinical rotations in the states until you pass the step 1 and it's really hard to pass the step if you haven't taken the basic science classes.

Originally Posted by roundtuitless

Hello everyone, I just got into St. George for Jan 08. I'd like to know if getting clinical rotations on time is because of a good SGU clinical dept. or is it because students take matter into their own hands and find their own rotations. Also, to what extent does SGU's basic sciences help during clinical?

The reason I ask is because I've read a survey of SGU's students about the school's pros and cons. The one con that sticks out is that, often time, students have to find their own rotations. Now, is this a problem with SGU's admin (i.e lack of organization, lack of effort) or is it a problem with simply not having enough clinical spots (thus causing students to be more proactive and compete to get the rotations)?

Thanks everyone.

interesting that that was listed as a con. Getting cores isn't a problem, you are assigned a place- ususually the problem people have is that they don't necessarily like the place they were assigned (want to be in NJ got assigned NY).

as for 4th year electives- these you do set up yourself because everyone's 4th year will be different- the problem, aside some really slow and nasty med coordinatoors who take forever to answer an emai!- is with scheduling unaffliated electives - the paperwork is such that it bogs you down like crazy!!! I do not understand why an ACGME accredited residency at an LCME school has to prove so much to sgu!! And why its so difficult to get paperwork on malpractice insurance from the school!