4th year Rotations Advice

[MPDO20]

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I wanted some advice or suggestions on which rotations would help out the most entering intern year in a family medicine residency and that might help out in the future career as well..

I am doing ICU, Emergency Medicine, GI, Cards, Nephro..so far..trying to get radiology

now for surgery(required) i have these options..which would you suggest..
colon/rectal, cardiovascular, ortho, ped surgery or spine...which one?

Thanks in advance..

 

[BayesianDoc]

Depends on the type of FM program you are looking for. I would recommend OB/GYN and Peds sub-i, then maybe derm.

From the surgical rotations you listed i would vote for ortho and peds surgery. Maybe colorectal but you will see plenty of that in your gen surgery 1st year rotation (dependnet on program and location and your interest in scopes). I think spine surgery and CTS would be marginally beneficial but all are nice to have some exposure to. Maybe see if you can arrange 2 week rotations as I think the value of each those rotations as a student will decrease exponentially after 2 weeks.

 

[brats800]

I think your rotations look good. My only change would be to add Derm, too. I see so much derm. I think you could go +/- on the nephro rotation. I have found that, at least in my hospitals, most harder renal stuff gets managed by the specialists. Also, I would go for the Ortho Surg over any other surgery. There is a lot of helpful MSK anatomy + procedures you can learn from the Ortho rotation (vs my life would be fine if I never see another appendectomy...)

 

[cabinbuilder]

FM is DERM all day every day

I would do ortho clinic and learn how to splint and cast, doing joint injections/aspirations, taking nails off, when it's simple and when to refer. Ortho OR really doesn't help you much.

Anesthesia is good to learn central lines and intubations.