Clinicals in one location?

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Is there any school where you can do all your clinicals in one location? How does this work? I've got an interview at SOMA and I understand you do your first year there, 3 years somewhere else. For those last three years is it all in the same hospital?

I guess I really just want to be able to pack my bags and move the least amount of times as possible. I'm not married, but say I get there before medical school... I want it to be easy on my wife. ie. make friends and stay in same house for a long time. Which schools on the west coast are good for that? I've already got interviews at SOMA, Rocky Vista, DMU and LCOM-FL and got wait-listed at Midwestern AZ.

 

[willen101383]

UMDNJ has its own hospital system. You should come to the east coast. 🙂

But you need to live in NJ.....dealbreakerrrrrrr 😛😛

 

[nlax30]

I would think it would be fairly feasible at most schools. Here at Lecom-Br you could certainly stay in the Tampa Bay area for all your rotations. I lived in Bradenton for first 2 years but then moved only ~45min up to St Pete/Clearwater area as that's where my wife works.

We have affliations with several community hospitals and clinics in the area so I just schedule mine for here. At most I've had to drive 50min - 1hr if I had was going to Sarasota or north Tampa for a certain rotation.

 

[st2205]

KCOM's 3rd and 4th years are all at the same place, giving you options to end up "out west" in Denver, Utah or Arizona (a ton of spots in Mesa that go unfilled every year). If I'm reading your name correctly, perhaps you may want to know this with regard to the whole "getting married" part. The other spots are in Provo, Salt Lake and Logan (all separate base-locations).

 

[christina30]

NYCOM makes it an option for students to do all their rotations in one place - you just don't get a lot of choices. I think there are only 3 affiliated hospitals that this is possible for.

 

[Slane]

Keep in mind though that doing so would hurt you a bit when it came time to apply for residencies, unless you want to complete a residency at the same institutions. Your clinical electives are very useful for rotating at places where you have an interest in doing a residency and allow you to establish contacts, prove yourself, and kind of get a foot in the door, and electives make up a good bit of your MS-IV year.

That being said, I know that LECOM Erie has a very strong relationship with the Erie area hospitals, which means you could potentially spend most, if not all, of your rotations here locally.

 

[st2205]

Keep in mind though that doing so would hurt you a bit when it came time to apply for residencies, unless you want to complete a residency at the same institutions. Your clinical electives are very useful for rotating at places where you have an interest in doing a residency and allow you to establish contacts, prove yourself, and kind of get a foot in the door, and electives make up a good bit of your MS-IV year.

That being said, I know that LECOM Erie has a very strong relationship with the Erie area hospitals, which means you could potentially spend most, if not all, of your rotations here locally.

There's nothing preventing someone from doing away rotations when they have a base-site. In any case, there's no guarantee that you will even end up in hospitals with residencies, with specialties you're interested in, in locations you like. Staying in the same place only means that you're not forced to move around, not that you're stuck there.

 

[HopefulDoc1984]

You have the option of doing clinicals in Memphis through the Methodist hospital system if you go to LMU-DCOM. You can do everything here and there are tons of residencies to do auditions at too.

 

[Dr Skeptismo]

CCOM FTW. You can stay in Chicagoland for all your clinicals, and since Chicago has a lot of hospitals (17 w/core clerkship relationships with CCOM) you can get exposure at a lot of different ones.