I suspect this will likely be the case at most schools for third-year. The multi-month hiatus really delayed many people's schedules (e.g., rotations, ERAS, the match, etc.). Having rotations be as close to "normal" as much possible (i.e. in-person) is compulsory to keep the pipeline of medical students being adequately trained and graduating and matching. I suspect many schools, students, and residency programs cannot afford to have students be pulled from rotations frequently/often or for a prolonged period of time.
I was about to post something similar. I have a feeling students won’t be allowed in hospitals in my area and my school will do what it did in June and just tell us to start rotations and do nothing to help us secure them.
Exactly. And we all know our schools won't let us move around rotations so that we can have the ones we aren't interested in online and not miss the ones we plan on going into for residency 🙄
A friend invited me to a party. Me and another friend flat out declined. Its 2020 ppl...our loved ones and patients are our priority. I could care less what happens to me but as medical students we need to be the most considerate here of all student populations
Wow i'm surprised your hospital was allowing visitors at all! Half of my day is spent trying to get visits approved for my patients lol. But yes I feel similarly. I start family med after thanksgiving at a small site in NJ and am nervous they're gonna tell us no sorrryyyy then I'll have to use a vacation block next year to make the time up.
I agree with you. I don't think we should be seeing COVID patients, but I think it's pretty essential to our education to have in-person rotations.
It’s amazing that any systems are letting students see COVID patients. Not because of the students... just because of the PPE. Why in the world would anyone voluntarily waste N-95s on med students when a lot of places are still rationing them?
