During rotations, are you paired with other med students?

[alisepeep]

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Im starting my 2nd year and am kinda nervous for rotations third year. Do they usually put 2-3 students per team or are most med students usually split up and on their own?
Thanks!
Do you get close with your classmates 3rd year?

 

[HelpPleaseMD]

it depends on your school and on the rotation. Right now I am the only ms3 on my team. My team consist of a subI (4th yr)a intern (PGY1) a resident and an attending. Its perfectly normal to be nervous. You will get the hang of it in 3-4 days after following the residents around. more exhausing but more exciting than 2nd yr

 

[qmcat]

Most of the time it's paired at my school. A team would be 2 MS3's, 1 MS4 (sub-I or just rotating), 1 PGY-1 resident, 1 fellow, and 1 attending. Sometimes the attending isn't there and will just let the fellow run the show.

The only time I've been on my own with an attending so far is on family medicine.

 

[Alvarez13]

Been on my own for the past 5 changes between inpatient and outpatient. Love it 😀

 

[HelpPleaseMD]

i luv how they list all the non generic name of the drugs....
i also luv how patients think we are pharmacist.. they start naming their drugs rapid fire thinking we can write it all down really quickly.

 

[ArcGurren]

During my third year I was paired with another student (teams of anywhere from 2 to 5) most of the time. The exceptions to that were my outpatient medicine rotation and family medicine rotation - which was nice in a way and gave me waaaay more facetime with the attending.

 

[Abby_Normal]

From what I understand, it really depends upon the student-to-faculty ratio.

For those of you who have been the only MS3 on your team, how did you find it?

 

[username456789]

During my third year I was paired with another student (teams of anywhere from 2 to 5) most of the time. The exceptions to that were my outpatient medicine rotation and family medicine rotation - which was nice in a way and gave me waaaay more facetime with the attending.

This is how it was for me. Outpatient medicine and family medicine were the two rotations where I was on my own.

For those of you who have been the only MS3 on your team, how did you find it?

It's generally great. There are pros and cons to each. The pros to having other med students on your team is there is some shared misery. That, and if you get a good partner, you can both look out for each other. Also any potentially unwanted attention from residents/attendings is divided between you guys. The cons to having other students is that you can sometimes get paired with students who just don't play nice with others, or are just huge superstars that they make your average or above average abilities look like crap.

Being on your own means, at least for that couple weeks, you're not being directly compared to anyone (although of course the people who evaluate you could theoretically be comparing you to past medical students they've had). You can get more face time with the attending. Sometimes it depends which rotation it is and when you have it . . . I had my FM and outpatient IM rotations towards the end of M3, so I was perfectly comfortable presenting and such, so things all went smoothly.

 

[VenusinFurs]

Being paired with someone who's at your level is best.

Being paired with the overly great sucks.

Being alone on a rotation you don't like/ is hard sucks.