Just curious...

[MrBurns10]

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Do you all have classes during your rotations? I'm on surgery right now and we have class (just lectures) several times a week...including 4 fun-filled hours this morning. Just wondering.

 

[Ashers]

Yes... I think they're absolutely pointless unless it's a departmental exam. So far I've been on psych (shelf), neuro (dept), and ob/gyn (shelf). All lectures are a waste of time, but especially if you're not getting directly tested on the stuff they're lecturing on, if they don't cancel lecture which OB/gyn's done a few times already.

I think family med even has PBL... so NOT excited about that.

 

[UCLAstudent]

Yep. I'm on surgery right now and we have lectures from 7AM to 10AM every Wednesday. I'm doing Ob/Gyn next and have heard that there's PBL EVERYDAY from 4PM to 5PM. There's also PBL for psych.

 

[akpete]

Well, I've only done medicine and surgery so far. Medicine had ~3-4 hours of lectures once a week plus 1 hour of EKG class (which was good). On surgery we have lecture from 9am-5pm once per week (with an hour break for lunch). We take the medicine shelf, but an in-house exam for surgery.

So yeah, I'm guessing that lectures are a pretty common thing.

 

[Law2Doc]

Do you all have classes during your rotations? I'm on surgery right now and we have class (just lectures) several times a week...including 4 fun-filled hours this morning. Just wondering.

I think that's pretty standard.

 

[Shinken]

I think that's pretty standard.

As it should be.

I also have classes/didactics regularly regardless of rotation, including 4-5 hours of mandatory lecture every Wednesday morning, which is protected time and no rotation can cut into that time. After all, we're all still medical "students" even in a clinical setting. We have to study the material on our current pertinent rotation in addition to attending classes and studying medical material in general. I think that's perfectly acceptable and necessary.

 

[efex101]

Yes

 

[MrBurns10]

Gotcha. I only asked because I had no idea coming into the clinical year that we'd have classes, so I was just curious if it was standard.

 

[Anka]

Apparently standard, but my guess is some schools do it better than others. While it is important to maintain some degree of didactic education, there is a balance against making you so peripheral on your clinical team that you aren't really involved in your patient's care. On some of my rotations, the didactics were very well done and complemented the rotation nicely. On others, we felt like we were constantly being pulled away from the service for lectures that were mediocre at best.

Best,
Anka