Does size matter?

[w0rldw3y3d]

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[Cyberdyne 101]

Ok, here's a serious answer. Check out this thread:
How to tell strength of clinical years?

Edit: reposting the spongebob pic 'cause it's funny.

 

[w0rldw3y3d]

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It's a serious question though.

 

[starspells]

nice clickbait lol

you did that on purpose hahahaha

 

[Ad2b]

Yale smaller than Duluth. Answer your question?

 

[w0rldw3y3d]

Yale smaller than Duluth. Answer your question?

Ahh, see this is what I mean. I find it interesting how some schools build these monstrous hospitals and others are content with much smaller facilities. I guess location and population would be huge components.

 

[Mwooster]

Ask your SO, whom I assume has a lot to contribute on this matter

 

[rilte4]

I am curious to see what people's opinions are on the size of a teaching hospital. Some schools have huge 600 bed hospitals, and some have small 220 bed hospitals.

Does size really matter as far as clinical education is concerned? Does bigger mean more funding, etc.? If not, what DOES matter when it comes to clinical education?

Yes to your title. And no to your post (as far as it being a hard and fast rule).

 

[LizzyM]

Yale smaller than Duluth. Answer your question?

Yale smaller than Duluth?? Are you serious? Yale has 1,541 beds. Duluth?? Not even 800.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale–New_Haven_Hospital
https://www.ahd.com/states/hospital_MN.html

I think that the more important issue is the relationship that the school has with outlying hospitals and the number of beds per student, so to speak. As long as you aren't too crowded by fellow students to get adequate experience, it is big enough.

 

[Ad2b]

@LizzyM - I was only considering: school and town size overall. Didn't cross my mind about beds...

 

[Dr. Death]

Yes to your title. And no to your post (as far as it being a hard and fast rule).

I see what you did there.
But seriously it depends on the girl (or guy if you swing that way)

 

[w0rldw3y3d]

I love how I have created two conversations in one thread. It appears as though I have brought out the phallus obsession in some of you sicko pre-meds 😆😆

 

[rilte4]

I see what you did there.
But seriously it depends on the girl (or guy if you swing that way)

I was harboring a very real fear that no one would get it.