Confused as to how year 4 works

[Podiatry1]

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So externship year...

Do you just choose from all of the residencies available and ask the director to externship there or is there a list of places that each respective school allows you to externship at?

I was looking at cspm's website and it looks like they let you extern at 7 different places?

Can someone clarify this process with me? Thanks!

 

[Feli]

Most residency hospitals take clerks for a month... you apply around the start of your 3rd year (Sept?). If you are targeting any residencies that don't have a clerkship, then they will usually let you visit for a day, week, etc if you arrange it. Some residency hospitals also accept ~4mo "core" clerks from pod schools that need external places to help supply their students pod + select general med/surg rotations - just DMU and AZ do that to my knowledge.

Each school's 3rd and 4th year is a bit different. Most have you local in the pod school city for most/all of 3rd year... doing school pod clinics, pod rotations, and general med/surg rotations (medicine, gen surg, ER, etc). The 4th year is usually mostly clerkships: away pod rotations at locations depending on where you wanted to go and got accepted to clerk at. The clerkships at many schools effectively end around interview/match time (Jan-Mar), and that's because travelling is expensive, the clerkships after interviews/match won't help you too much in terms of residency placement, and you need to get back to the pod school for graduation stuff and residency relocation prep time.

Hope that helps... GL

 

[TheBee]

Most residency hospitals take clerks for a month... you apply around the start of your 3rd year (Sept?). If you are targeting any residencies that don't have a clerkship, then they will usually let you visit for a day, week, etc if you arrange it. Some residency hospitals also accept ~4mo "core" clerks from pod schools that need external places to help supply their students pod + select general med/surg rotations - just DMU and AZ do that to my knowledge.

Each school's 3rd and 4th year is a bit different. Most have you local in the pod school city for most/all of 3rd year... doing school pod clinics, pod rotations, and general med/surg rotations (medicine, gen surg, ER, etc). The 4th year is usually mostly clerkships: away pod rotations at locations depending on where you wanted to go and got accepted to clerk at. The clerkships at many schools effectively end around interview/match time (Jan-Mar), and that's because travelling is expensive, the clerkships after interviews/match won't help you too much in terms of residency placement, and you need to get back to the pod school for graduation stuff and residency relocation prep time.

Hope that helps... GL

That sounds right to me, except Scholl lets you do 3 month cores as well. Students can choose from Phoenix VA, Albuquerque VA, Los Ang VA, and Detroit Med Ctr.
Also the clerkship applications for this past year opened up in the middle of October, however some school like Scholl will apply earlier.

 

[Podiatry1]

That sounds right to me, except Scholl lets you do 3 month cores as well. Students can choose from Phoenix VA, Albuquerque VA, Los Ang VA, and Detroit Med Ctr.
Also the clerkship applications for this past year opened up in the middle of October, however some school like Scholl will apply earlier.

Thanks for the help. Can someone comment on how year four at temple works?

 

[Feli]

That sounds right to me, except Scholl lets you do 3 month cores as well. Students can choose from Phoenix VA, Albuquerque VA, Los Ang VA, and Detroit Med Ctr...

Do all students do those 3mo cores, or are they just optional and limited availability? It seems like there should be a LOT more than four choices of location/hospital if everyone in a class of ~100 students has to do it (and find housing, travel, etc to get to them).

 

[drmeggo]

Scholl does not require cores like some of the other schools. So student's can choose to do cores or not. If they do not do a core at an approved location the core rotations like internal med, general surgery, vascular surgery, ER, etc. are taken care of at local Chicago hospital sites.