If you could choose one rotation.....

[GoBuckeyes913]

---

Members do not see this ad.

This is for any attending, resident or student: If you could choose 1 rotation to do that you've always wanted to do/never got to do what would it be? EM aside, of course 😉 I have an elective the last month of med school, but not really sure what to do it in. I will glady accept any suggestions 😀

 

[quideam]

Hmmm... my favorites:

- Wilderness medicine (especially if you get to spend a few weeks in a part of the country you haven't been to before, or just a rotation that's filled with hiking, etc)

- Hyperbarics - can you say scuba diving? 🙂

- An EMS rotation (if you weren't a medic in your past life - if you were, then one where you get to fly would still be pretty cool)

- Maybe something international? IE, work in a crazy rural hospital half the day, spend the rest of your time hiking/biking/traveling...

 

[Doctor Bob]

I had one of those "I've always wanted to do this" rotations at the end of 4th year.

I did forensic pathology. It was phenomenal... probably my favorite rotation of 3rd/4th year (ER included). I'd hate to do it for the rest of my life because I can't stand to look in microscopes, but the place I did my elective let me get away with only doing the autopsies and going to do scene pickups and exams so it was great.

 

[roja]

Plastics (I mean, sure interrupteds and the occasional mattress fix all things, but it would have been cool to do tons of suturing with a variety of techniques.)

I second doctor bob: forensics

 

[Hard24Get]

anesthesia, wish I'd done it because I would feel more comfortable intubating. But if there had been a forensics class... NOTHING would've stopped me from taking it :grin: 😍

 

[GoBuckeyes913]

I had one of those "I've always wanted to do this" rotations at the end of 4th year.

I did forensic pathology. It was phenomenal... probably my favorite rotation of 3rd/4th year (ER included). I'd hate to do it for the rest of my life because I can't stand to look in microscopes, but the place I did my elective let me get away with only doing the autopsies and going to do scene pickups and exams so it was great.

I actually did a forensic path rotation.... and I must say it was definitely one of my favorites! Very awesome. I thought about plastics, or going somewhere geographically cool for 3 weeks. Keep the ideas coming! 😀

 

[december07]

I probably would do this "rotation" if they have it next year.

http://www.lasvegasemr.com/wilderness/index.html

Something to keep your mind off the match...

 

[GoBuckeyes913]

I probably would do this "rotation" if they have it next year.

http://www.lasvegasemr.com/wilderness/index.html

Something to keep your mind off the match...

I saw that!!!! I wish it was for different dates though, or I would have definitely considered doing something fun like that.

 

[Drawing Dead]

My school allowed for one rotation in a foreign country. Many of my friends went to India, Costa Rica, Bolivia, and Australia. I really wish I had done that.

 

[CCLCMer]

This is for any attending, resident or student: If you could choose 1 rotation to do that you've always wanted to do/never got to do what would it be? EM aside, of course 😉 I have an elective the last month of med school, but not really sure what to do it in. I will glady accept any suggestions 😀

If your school has a tox rotation, seriously think about it. I did one here a few months ago, and it was so good that I started thinking I might want to do EM. (Our elective at Case is offered through peds, so don't only look for one in your EM dept.)