Any advice for incoming M1 at a med school with no hospital?

[Super_Med]

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With no academic hospital (no in house residency programs) for my med school, I know that one struggle will be getting close to the physicians who will write my letters of rec for residency, especially since I’m looking towards some of the more competitive specialties. Do you have any advice for someone in my shoes, especially what I can do earlier on that will set me up for success later when it comes time for applying to residencies?

 

[M&L]

For residency you’ll use recommendation letters from physicians who will supervise your clinical rotations during M3 and M4 years, and from physicians on your elective rotations . Not from your faculty , so don’t worry about it . You will be ok !
For now - research , and shadow.

 

[Super_Med]

For residency you’ll use recommendation letters from physicians who will supervise your clinical rotations during M3 and M4 years, and from physicians on your elective rotations . Not from your faculty , so don’t worry about it . You will be ok !
For now - research , and shadow.

Whoops, this is what I meant! Thanks!

 

[The wise one]

MD school with no hospital?? That shouldn't be a thing.

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[Westcoaststudent95]

MD school with no hospital?? That shouldn't be a thing.

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It is an exceedingly rare thing but it does exist. I'm a student at Rosalind Franklin and we technically don't have an associated academic hospital, just various community partner hospitals in the state. I know there are a few other MD schools like us.

 

[MongutheDoggy]

It is an exceedingly rare thing but it does exist. I'm a student at Rosalind Franklin and we technically don't have an associated academic hospital, just various community partner hospitals in the state. I know there are a few other MD schools like us.

Isn't Harvard like this? No Harvard Hospital, just MGH, BIDMC, and BWH?

 

[Westcoaststudent95]

Isn't Harvard like this? No Harvard Hospital, just MGH, BIDMC, and BWH?

From my understanding those institutions are only affiliated with HMS, whereas at RFU the various hospitals we rotate with have other med schools who rotate there as well, i.e. the Advocate system also takes med students from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. I'm an M2 though, so take what I say with a grain of salt as I haven't done rotations yet.

 

[Trooper32]

Isn't Harvard like this? No Harvard Hospital, just MGH, BIDMC, and BWH?

HMS seems to be very closely linked to these hospitals. They kinda act like Harvard's hospital and also have Harvard residencies

 

[ciestar]

Isn't Harvard like this? No Harvard Hospital, just MGH, BIDMC, and BWH?

Drexel didnt have “drexel hospital” either but did have a dedicated teaching hospital before Hahnenann closed

 

[Redpancreas]

The sarcasm seems to have flown over some heads here in this thread.

From a macro-perspective this is the epitome of what I hate about medical education. The proprietary part of a medical school is the damn hospitals and patients.

Anyways, I could rant all day about this but the fact is you’re at this school now. I don’t really have much advice but to just look at the match lists for places/fields you’d ultimately like to end up and asking some upper years about what they did to achieve what they did and do that.