Early Exposure

[RobbingReality]

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I am curious to know which schools expose medical students to a hospital setting the earliest (i.e. doing rounds, patient contact, clinical scenarios, etc.), versus just classroom lectures. This is important for deciding which schools to apply, I feel that the ealier I get my feet wet the better.

 

[Iwy Em Hotep]

I am curious to know which schools expose medical students to a hospital setting the earliest (i.e. doing rounds, patient contact, clinical scenarios, etc.), versus just classroom lectures. This is important for deciding which schools to apply, I feel that the ealier I get my feet wet the better.

If you want to go, just go. Unless your school is Patch-Adams-strict, you shouldn't have any trouble finding physicians to follow around as preceptors.

 

[velo]

I am curious to know which schools expose medical students to a hospital setting the earliest (i.e. doing rounds, patient contact, clinical scenarios, etc.), versus just classroom lectures. This is important for deciding which schools to apply, I feel that the ealier I get my feet wet the better.

yeah wherever you go you can get as much or as little clinical exposure as you want. Find some docs in fields you're interested in and shadow them...you're covered by hospital insurance once you're in school so you'd be amazed at how much some of them let you do...I've got a thread about that floating around here somewhere... If you're talking about structured exposure I think most schools will teach you how to do an H&P first year...usually get to try it on some standardized patients and hospitalized patients. Anymore clinical responsibility than that is a waste of time until you build a strong enough knowledge base to know a little bit about what you're seeing in the patient...