For me, I knew that I wanted to do emergency medicine and I therefore knew that I had to get my core rotations over with quickly so that I could set up electives (to do Emergency Med elective, you really should have completed all of your cores...especially surgery, peds, and medcine). For this reason, I moved about for my clinicals.
My orders was: Internal Med (9 weeks). Cardiology (part of IM 4 weeks), Psych (6 weeks), Surgery (12 weeks), Peds (6 weeks), EM (4 weeks), EM (4 weeks) Surgery elective (nothing else available (4 weeks), Anesthesia (5 weeks), GI (4 weeks), Pulmonary (4 weeks), Medicine Sub-I (4 weeks). And, I think that thta was it.
I had good clinical experiences, and some rotations I set up on my own. Now, to the best of my knowledge, Saba never attempted to capitalize on the rotations I set up (In other words, you would think that they would have sent a letter out to my preceptor stating, "Thank you for allowing X to rotate with you. I hope that you found him to be well educated. Please inform us if you would be willing to have other Saba students rotate with you." Then, they could have sent out a self-addressed postcard that had them check off (1. Sorry, this was a one time situation only. 2. Yes, I am interested in future Saba students, but not at this time. Please contact me in X months. 3. Yes, I am interested in more students, please contact me at once).
Just my thoughts.
Any other questions, please ask. As I stated, I am already in the residency of my choice. I was very fortunate to have had contacted people at Saba prior to me enrolling there that gave me an honest, unbiased, open opinion, and I am just trying to do the same.
Posted on Oct 28, 2002, 3:53 PM from IP address 155.139.50.14
