Elective Rotations

[MedStudentWanna]

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How does one go about setting up fourth-year rotations at the hospital they want to do their residency in? Do you have to interview or do the accept most people who have good grades and step one scores? Or does it all depend on the hospital?

 

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[colbgw02]

How does one go about setting up fourth-year rotations at the hospital they want to do their residency in? Do you have to interview or do the accept most people who have good grades and step one scores? Or does it all depend on the hospital?

most rotations have a cap on the number of students they'll take. assuming that there is room and you're in good standing with an accredited medical school, it's simply a matter of finding the right person (usually some clerkship coordinator administrative type) to get signed up. apart from that there's a bunch of relatively meaningless crap, like making sure you've done your annual HIPPA training - things that your school should help take care of.

you certainly don't have to interview, but it is understood that you are seriously considering that program if you bother to do an away elective with them. some programs, like my school's ortho department, flatly stated that they would not take residents who did not do a rotation with them. or, like me, you could decide that a program is not for you based on the elective.

 

[MedStudentWanna]

Thanks for the reply and the info!