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any personal knowledge about the MSU-Sparrow program & thoughts about Lansing in general?
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That's where Panda Bear is, if I'm not mistaken. Maybe he can help.
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Haven't heard from P. Bear around here in a while. Maybe he has been banished to the dreaded OB/GYN rotation 😉 .
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WOW, may I be the first to really commend you on your very lengthy and very informative speech. I wish such a paragraph existed for every program. It sounds very truthful and not overly polished and has all the points an applicant is hopefully interested in.
I will be visiting Michigan for the first time in January.
I will be visiting Michigan for the first time in January.
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Oh no. I'm here. Loving life and eating of the cheeses and hams. I like the program just fine for all the reasons elucidated above.
I also want to add that, compared to Duke anyways, Sparrow and Ingham are as laid-back as one could possibly imagine. It's like the difference between having your tummy tickled or a red-hot poker shoved up your ass. I despised Duke and thought almost everybody, from attending to residents, where either extremely arrogant or extremely submissive.
Definitely rank this program high if you interview here. Our attendings are fantastic and take the time to teach even if things are usually pretty busy. Plus it is more of a community program so it doesn't have that "big academic" feel which, I'll admit, some people like.
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Oh, I want to add that while it's true that we get over-worked on the medicine rotations (two) at Ingham, it is such an "assembly line" that there is no real point rounding post-call so you get out of there wicked early, sometimes at 0730 or 0800. They don't really expect you to round, post-call I mean, as you are nothing but an admitting scut-oxen for the notorious D service.
So being on medicine at Ingham can blow, you will never sleep on call, but at least you are out of there quickly. It makes the time go by pretty fast. It's almost like having a day off every four days on top of your usual days off.
They have something called "Swing Shift" which is a night float that goes from 1700 to 0300 that you do for a week...but that's all you do and get to go at 0300.
I hate internal medicine, you understand, so these kind of things are important to me.
So being on medicine at Ingham can blow, you will never sleep on call, but at least you are out of there quickly. It makes the time go by pretty fast. It's almost like having a day off every four days on top of your usual days off.
They have something called "Swing Shift" which is a night float that goes from 1700 to 0300 that you do for a week...but that's all you do and get to go at 0300.
I hate internal medicine, you understand, so these kind of things are important to me.
