I privately responded to you with a list of people in both classes who were given the rights to do the core rotations elsewhere.
As i told you in the PM (and am just echoing here cause its an important note): being able to do the cores wherever you want is a very unique blessing that you can do here. BUT its for those who have a very strong connection already with a certain area. You have to prove you're worth the extra work of the admin having to also monitor the education at your new hospital as well. Many schools (all of the four DO schools people in my family went to) would have no way no how allowed this. The fact is that we are trying to expand so it is worth it for the admin to put the effort in for a small number of students who can prove to be worth it because they have the connections already existing with a valuable market. It isnt any option for anywhere near the majority. but the majority will be happy to just be doing it anywhere. this is for those who bust their ass to seal the deal and already have the networking in place. I just dont want it being said that its not possible, because its a pretty interesting unique feature we have for the core rotations, even if its inaccessible to most.
haha and quoting me from 2 weeks ago is a little lame because that was back when i was reliant on paperwork they give on tours and the old town hall meeting, before the official sheets came out. Though you are right my stuff was somewhat off base saying that there was a brooklyn option, im calling technicality and saying i ran with the info i had at the time
but i still thing youre missing the point that unless youre trying to do the hybrid NY/NJ/Rockland county set up you really wont have bad commutes at all. You just need to realize that you cant live on the island of manhattan to do it. My cousin came from Touro CA and had no choice but be sent to the exact Queens/SI rotation that we do right now. He chose not to use the housing that St. John's provides to many of its student doctors and lived in Brooklyn. He didnt have any complaints about his commute between those two locations. I think, and this is wholly me making assumptions, that people are too recalcitrant against moving out of manhattan to any other borough or suburb and they forget that all other schools have rotation sites all over the place.
Example: kirksville has rotation sites in St Louis, at least one near kirksville itself, columbus ohio, michigan, utah and phoenix. We have it in wholly contained in a tight circle of the NYC metropolitan area (and one less talked about binghamton/utica option). Sure you cant live in manhattan for it, but you also dont have to fly across the country. Again, my cousin at Vallejo had no choices in california, he had to move across the continent to brooklyn. I understand your arguments, but I'm gonna stick by my guns that the commutes (with one rotations exception) are really really easy if you give up the overpriced studio apt in manhattan for a cheaper closer and bigger apartment elsewhere. The exception is the hybrid one, and even in that case, those hospitals are all very close to each other as long as you have a car. Thats the price you pay for picking that one, moving to bronx, westcherster, north jersey or rockland and getting a car. I lived two of those four areas. Absolutely wonderful, but you need a car.
Now are you wronged because they told you manhattan was a lock. Sure. I agree. You were mislead. If being in manhattan and manhattan alone was your only reason for coming here then I am extremely sorry for this happening to you, but maybe you should have weighed more things into your selection. But there comes a time to let that one point of anger go and realize that, without that filter of being mislead there, the rotation sites actually look REALLY nice compared to what others have to deal with. Am I almost always on the cheery side of things? Yes. But this is a very fair summary of things this time I think.
