DO Programs with Rotations at Academic Hospitals?

[MightyMoose]

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Ok, so after doing some searching I'm having a difficult time finding out about schools that have clinical rotations at Academic vs. Community hospitals. Are there any DO schools out there that have a strong presence at or are affiliated with good academic hospitals?

Also, when I look at the hospital lists and clinical rotation sites for most schools it is difficult to tell if it is an academic teaching hospital or a community hospital. Is there an easy way to determine this difference?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

 

[st2205]

You may have to clarify what you mean by academic hospitals and community hospitals. If by academic you mean being a university medical center (i.e. Ohio State University Medical Center), then you won't really find any in that regard. Then again, MD schools with those kind of medical centers aren't necessarily pumping all their students through that, but instead also rely heavily upon "community hospitals". If by academic hospital you mean that it's a teaching hospital with residency programs, then then are a plethora.

The following schools I know give you the option to be at teaching hospitals:

AZCOM
Western
TCOM
OSU
KCUMB
KCOM
Pikeville
OU
UMDNJ
NYCOM
DMU
NSU
MSU
CCOM
PCOM

There are more, but these are the ones off the top of my head. There are places like Pikeville that I really have no idea how many spots they have at teaching hospitals, but I know that they do have them. When I'm talking about teaching hospitals, I'm refering to places like Genesys (www.genesys.org) in Michigan, Doctors Hopsital in Columbus, Grandview in Dayton, and all the other hospitals that you'll see affiliated with residency programs on http://opportunities.osteopathic.org . Also, several places also rotate through "allopathic" teaching hospitals, such as KCOM students rotating through Southern Illinois University's programs in Springfield, IL (St. John's, a 738 bed hospital; Memorial Medical Center, a 524 bed hospital), or Via Christi Regional Medical Center (an 840 bed hospital in Wichita, KS) which is where KU has a lot of their programs and sends their students.

So if that's what you mean by academic hospital, then there are plenty of options. However, I don't know how each school works their system/lottery and how many people have to rotate at other places that aren't "academic" hospitals. At KCOM, you'll rotate through an academic hospital if you want to, as there are plenty. You may not get your first choice, but the odds of getting your first choice are generally better than not getting your first choice. Other places that run their own programs, such as MSU, will have plenty of options of hospitals to rotate through.

 

[MightyMoose]

Thank you, st2205. I was hoping for both types of academic hospitals (university and teaching), but was more concerned about the availability of teaching hospital rotations. I'm glad to know there are so many and thank you for posting the way to decipher them from the milieu of hospitals listed for clinical rotations at most schools. Now I can just search by state (Here: http://opportunities.osteopathic.org) and do a quick reference match with the school I'm interested in in that state. 🙂

 

[st2205]

Thank you, st2205. I was hoping for both types of academic hospitals (university and teaching), but was more concerned about the availability of teaching hospital rotations. I'm glad to know there are so many and thank you for posting the way to decipher them from the milieu of hospitals listed for clinical rotations at most schools. Now I can just search by state (Here: http://opportunities.osteopathic.org) and do a quick reference match with the school I'm interested in in that state. 🙂

That's one way to do it. Also keep in mind that numerous schools also rotate through a particular school's hospital. For example, Doctors Hospital in Columbus (which has 12+ residency programs and a handful of fellowships) has students rotating from OU, DMU, KCUMB, KCOM, Pikeville and possibly PCOM. It may be better to approach it from school -> rotation sites rather than rotation sites -> school, because you may not know who's in the rotation site outside of who runs it.

And a side note that the terms teaching hospital and community hospital aren't mutually exclusive.

 

[HopefulDoc1984]

LMU-DCOM has affiliations with the methodist system in memphis. Many of the UT students rotate through this system as well. There are tons of residency options.