setting up individual clinicals

[FishMD]

How can someone set up clinical rotations with hospitals that the school does not have a contract with such as pediatrics at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Virginia or internal medicine at St. Barnabas Medical Center (these are just a couple of examples). Is it possible? What do you do to get started?

[shayloure]

I'm not for sure, but rumor has it that program directors will not consider your core rotations valid if you do them at hospitals that your school doesn't have a contract with.

[FishMD]

I wonder if it is possible even do elective rotations at hospitals that the school does not have a contract with. This would include only blue book or greenbook hospitals.

[danli77]

YEs, you can apply for away electives at hospitals not affiliated with AUA

[DOC.p]

this is common, US students do away or audition electives too

[docwhat]

i think the handbook has information on how to go about rotating in hospitals not connected to the schools.

[FishMD]

Here is the information from the handbook

"Students are permitted to contact non-affiliated teaching hospitals to see if the hospital will allow the student to participate in a clerkship. The AUA will then decide if the hospital meets its standards and is willing to follow our clinical guidelines. If it does, the AUA will then provide the hospital with a letter of good standing"