Medical School Rotations

[Mike34]

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Hello,
When you are doing your clinical rotations in medical school, I was wondering what are the core clincial rotations that you are required to do. I know at some point you get to have some choice based on your interests, but from my understanding it seems like there are mandatory ones in the beginning. I've gotten slightly different answers from different websites when I googled it which is why I'm asking here. Thanks for the help!

 

[ciestar]

Hello,
When you are doing your clinical rotations in medical school, I was wondering what are the core clincial rotations that you are required to do. I know at some point you get to have some choice based on your interests, but from my understanding it seems like there are mandatory ones in the beginning. I've gotten slightly different answers from different websites when I googled it which is why I'm asking here. Thanks for the help!

FM, Peds, OBGYN, IM, Surg, and Psych.

 

[Mike34]

FM, Peds, OBGYN, IM, Surg, and Psych.

Ok, thanks for letting me know! For some reason I saw emergency medicine as a core clinical rotation one time, but not in other places which was confusing me. Not sure why that was.

 

[deleted938090]

I think it depends on the medical school you attend.

UCSF: IM, Surg, OBGYN, Peds, Neuro, Psych, Anesthesia, FM (Core Clerkships | UCSF Medical Education)

Stanford: IM, Surg, Anesthesia, FM, EM, Neuro, OBGYN, Peds, Psych (Required Clerkship Curriculum)

JHU: EM, IM, Neuro, Peds, Psych, Surg, Women's health (Year Three Overview | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)

etc. Check the site for the school you're looking at.

 

[Treebeard]

FM, Peds, OBGYN, IM, Surg, and Psych are going to be required 3rd year at just about any med school you attend.

Neuro and EM are more variable. Usually, but not always, required. Maybe be 3rd or 4th year depending on school.

 

[ciestar]

FM, Peds, OBGYN, IM, Surg, and Psych are going to be required 3rd year at just about any med school you attend.

Neuro and EM are more variable. Usually, but not always, required. Maybe be 3rd or 4th year depending on school.

Yeah, the first six I listed are fairly standard.

My school doesnt have an EM requirement and there is talk that they’re removing the neuro requirement, too.

 

[pms_testosterone]

It depends on the school. Mine has a lot more than listed above.

 

[efle]

Depends on school. There can be some surprising stuff, for example Hopkins doesn't have any family med.

It's also not necessarily in order of core first and elective later. Sometimes people save unpopular cores for late in M4 so they're done with the residency app process and don't have to care much about it.

 

[ciestar]

Depends on school. There can be some surprising stuff, for example Hopkins doesn't have any family med.

It's also not necessarily in order of core first and elective later. Sometimes people save unpopular cores for late in M4 so they're done with the residency app process and don't have to care much about it.

Id love that.

My school it is the six core rotations for 40 weeks. And then mostly electives and a medicine sub-i M4

 

[The Knife & Gun Club]

For my school (Miami):
At my school you can take any time electives during M3 or M4, as long as you’ve completed that rotations pre-requisites (usually medicine and surgery).

M3
1 week patient safety and team based healthcare

8 weeks IM (4 weeks general inpatient, 4 wk specialist inpatient)

8 weeks surgery (two 4 wk blocks of either Trauma, ACS, oncology, breast, or endocrine + three 24 hour trauma call overnights)

8 weeks family medicine (4 wk in the community, 4 wk in the hospital free clinic)

6 weeks pediatrics (3 wk inpatient, 1 wk outpatient, 1 wk Peds ER, 1 wk NICU)

6 weeks OBgyn (3 weeks gyn, 1 week OB with overnight call, 1 week maternal-Fetal medicine, 1 week Gyn-Oncology)

6 weeks psych (3 inpatient, 3 outpatient)

M4
4 weeks EM

4weeks Neurology

4 weeks Geriatrics

4 weeks Radiology

2 weeks anesthesia

4 weeks Internal Medicine sub-Internship

4 weeks Surgery Sub-Internship

14 weeks of electives and away rotations

12 weeks of vacation time (used for vacations, step studying, residency Interviews)

 

[gyngyn]

It varies by state as well as school.

 

[Catalystik]

When you are doing your clinical rotations in medical school, I was wondering what are the core clincial rotations that you are required to do.

My school included two weeks each of Neuro, Ortho, and Derm as part of the required third year rotations, but no Family Med.

 

[aldol16]

Schools will have different rotations and even differing lengths spent on each one but the core rotations that everyone does (off the top of my head) typically are medicine, surgery, ob/gyn, peds, psych. These specialties encompass a lot of medicine (i.e. medicine and surgery are gateways to a lot of different subspecialties).