good elective rotations?

[mrsesame]

does anybody know of good elective rotations for prelim medicine year? i'm going to try to request a couple easy ones to break up the difficult year.

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[jdh71]

does anybody know of good elective rotations for prelim medicine year? i'm going to try to request a couple easy ones to break up the difficult year.

rheum: can have a pretty busy clinic, but usually the consults in the hospital are usually pretty light

immuno/allergy (if they have it): same as above

 

[Doctor4Life1769]

Also..

Derm count as an elective? - very important, esp. if doing outpt IM.

How about radiology? - super important.

EM? - allows you to further your diagnostic skills

Anesthesia? - good if you're going into pulm/crit care

 

[thesauce]

Always max out rads and path options before you do anything else

 

[mrsesame]

Appreciate the feedback -
what do you guys think are the best/worst electives out of the following:
cards, pulm, GI, neurology, heme-onc, ID, renal

 

[gutonc]

Appreciate the feedback -
what do you guys think are the best/worst electives out of the following:
cards, pulm, GI, neurology, heme-onc, ID, renal

Best/Worst with regards to what? Workload? Learning?

And what will you be doing after your prelim year? Because that will make a difference in what people would suggest you do.

 

[mrsesame]

Best/Worst with regards to what? Workload? Learning?

And what will you be doing after your prelim year? Because that will make a difference in what people would suggest you do.

a combination of both - for example even though ICU is tough, I actually really liked it bc i learned a lot. in general was wondering what medicine rotations people enjoyed/disliked

going into rads

 

[Droopy Snoopy]

Appreciate the feedback -
what do you guys think are the best/worst electives out of the following:
cards, pulm, GI, neurology, heme-onc, ID, renal

So you're looking to lighten up your year, maybe pick up some useful pearls for life after prelim medicine? Neurology will probably have a heavy rads emphasis and is likely a relatively light workload, so I'd put that first in your case. After that I'd go ID>GI>renal>pulm>cards (super learning experience but the workload will be crushing). Heme-onc I put last because, not only will it likely be quite long hours, but it's also emotionally taxing and you won't learn much that will transfer to radiology in any meaningful way.

 

[jdh71]

Best/Worst with regards to what? Workload? Learning?

And what will you be doing after your prelim year? Because that will make a difference in what people would suggest you do.

Also, these rotations are structured differently everywhere. Some places something like pulm might be hell and others it might be the easiest consult month. Some of this is also fellow dependent. Really gaming the system is finding out who the cool fellows are and trying to arrange a month when they are on service.

 

[gutonc]

a combination of both - for example even though ICU is tough, I actually really liked it bc i learned a lot. in general was wondering what medicine rotations people enjoyed/disliked

going into rads

In that case (and taking into account what jdh71 said that your "Pulm consult" month may actually wind up being a balls to the wall ICU month) I'd say Pulm and Cards are probably the highest yield. At least then, when you put "clinical correlation suggested" in your read of a film you'll have some vague idea of that that would be.

 

[DocDanny]

does anybody know of good elective rotations for prelim medicine year? i'm going to try to request a couple easy ones to break up the difficult year.

Why request all easy months? Try to get ones that'll help you the most when you get into whatever it is you want to get into.