How many elective months do you have at your school in your fourth year?

[kumar28]

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So...how many?

Thanks

 

[Seaglass]

9 months for electives.

 

[(nicedream)]

4 months of electives, 3 months of selectives (med, pc, surg).
2 months in 3rd year.

 

[Yosh]

We have 5 total electives, and some flexability within our surgery, and IM rotations.

 

[DireWolf]

9 elective months scattered throughout third and fourth years.

 

[Claymore]

1 month 3rd year, 5 months 4th year, and lots of selectives in medicine and surgery both years.

 

[kumar28]

Dire wolf...

what school do you go to?

 

[DrMom]

Dire wolf...

what school do you go to?

He's at OSU-COM with me 🙂 Of those 9 electives, 5 have to be in primary care and you can use one of the remaining 4 for vacation.

 

[bla_3x]

A woppin 4 weeks in 3rd and just 12 weeks in fourth 😱

Personally it could be more....there are some of us who dod not know what we want to do.

 

[DrMom]

How are you guys supposed to check out residency programs? People at my school are whining about how many requireds we have in 4th year.

 

[Idiopathic]

I am one of those...I actually promote the opinion that the school does not want us checking out other programs, because they want us to stay in OK and practice rural/family medicine. It has been said that "we dont train specialists". Great for me. 🙄

 

[DireWolf]

I am one of those. A lot of schools have the entire 4th year as electives. However, I was aware of OSU-COM's policy before I accepted, so I can't complain too much. It sounds like we have it pretty good compared to some of you.

 

[DireWolf]

I am one of those...I actually promote the opinion that the school does not want us checking out other programs, because they want us to stay in OK and practice rural/family medicine. It has been said that "we dont train specialists". Great for me. 🙄

Actually there are a couple of us that have noted some interesting decisions made by faculty and staff that support a "conspiracy theory" of sorts. PM me if you'd like details.

 

[kumar28]

anyone know about NYCOM? I hear they get alot.

 

[DrMom]

I am one of those...I actually promote the opinion that the school does not want us checking out other programs, because they want us to stay in OK and practice rural/family medicine. It has been said that "we dont train specialists". Great for me. 🙄

Oh, I'm right there with you, even though I'll go into something that the school considers primary care. I think that we should be able to use our electives for anything...especially since most of our required rotations are in primary care. I also don't think we should have any required rotations during the fall of 4th year. They didn't ask me, though.

I was just really surprised to see how limiting some other schools are.

 

[Robz]

I was just really surprised to see how limiting some other schools are.

This was one of my huge reasons on how I selected which schools I wanted to attend. Like AZCOM only had 4 weeks in the 3rd year and 12 in the 4th.

 

[DrSmiles]

1 month in year 3
6 in year 4 (one which can be used for interviewing or vacation)

UHS-COM

 

[kumar28]

again,
does anyone know about NYCOM or NSUCOM.

Thanks

 

[Anasazi23]

again,
does anyone know about NYCOM or NSUCOM.

Thanks

NYCOM = 0 third year
= 3 months 4 year, with a whopping 2 week vacation. And at a couple of our main hospitals, you are not allowed to interview for residency while rotating there.

Beat that... 😡

 

[Robz]

again,
does anyone know about NYCOM or NSUCOM.

Thanks

Here is the book on roations at NSUCOM, its fairly big.
http://medicine.nova.edu/academics/clinical/forms/clinmanual.pdf

I kinda boils down to 6 months of electives and I believe one of those has to be in a rural setting. They have a list but I saw that rural EM could be one of those electives so I was pretty happy about that. They also give you a month for vacation or you can elect to do a board prep during that time as well. Its in that PDF...just do a search for elective.

 

[johnthestreak]

here at UNECOM we have about 5 months electives....but they are tricky on when you get them. you really only about 3 months during showcase season if you look closely at the schedule (they make you have an OMM and rural medicine rotation in opposite semesters). very frustrating....

4th year
Selective rotations
A minimum of 20 weeks
Internal medicine 4 weeks
Emergency med 4 weeks
Surgery 4 weeks
OMM 4 weeks (late 3rd yr or 4th yr)
AHEC 4 weeks

Elective rotations
20 weeks (which is about 5 rotations or 5 months)