Need advice on picking a rotation site

[ohmanwaddup]

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Hey all. I attend KCU-Joplin as a 2nd year and am trying to put some thought into where I will do rotations next year. I am between 3 sites. I posted links below for my schools description of them and was hoping some people might be willing to comment on which might be better than the other education wise. I have asked some third years at my school, but would not mind some outside from SDN as well.

Freeman Hospital and Health System Joplin, Missouri KCU Clerkship

Mid-Missouri AHEC KCU Core Clerkship Site

KCU fact sheet on clerkships at the Mid-Missouri AHEC - Marshall or Rolla, Missouri.

www.kcumb.edu

Southeast Missouri AHEC KCU Core Clerkship Site

KCU fact sheet on clerkships at the Southeast AHEC - Sikeston or West Plains, Missouri.

www.kcumb.edu

 

[NVO]

Why are you interested in the AHECs?

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

Freeman.

 

[ohmanwaddup]

Why are you interested in the AHECs?

Fiance lives in St louis for law school, so if the I could get a comparable 3rd year at the other AHEC spots I would be pretty tempted to take them so that I would be closer to them

 

[NVO]

Okay, cause I was about to say why would you be interested in a site in the middle of nowhere, 1+ hours to the nearest airport which is a small regional airport with expensive flights out, and the only thing in town being a Walmart.

If the St. Louis site still exists, go gung-ho for it. Otherwise it might be better to pick a site in a bigger city (i.e detroit, florida sites) so that you guys can fly out to see each other often, and your daily lifestyle may be more enjoyable.

 

[hungrydoc710]

Off topic - but as a OMS2, what should I be looking into when picking rotation sites when that time comes?

Thanks.

 

[PorkChopsOG]

Off topic - but as a OMS2, what should I be looking into when picking rotation sites when that time comes?

Thanks.

Depends on what you want. If you want the classic medical school experience, go to a hospital that has tons of residencies and residents. You'll be at your one hospital for everything except things like outpatient FM, so less driving. I have classmates who drive an hour a day to and from a different hospital or clinic every day. There are also people in my class who don't have an inpatient IM!

If you want to tons of hands on experience, go somewhere there isn't residents. Think rural. However I've heard from residents they don't care how many procedures you've done: they want you to be able to present patients properly, write notes and be prepared to function as an intern, which some people who go to these super rural sites working with a preceptor who graduated in 1975 really struggle with. (cue people coming in saying the exact opposite).

One of the BEST reasons to go for a single hospital with lots of residencies is networking. My core site is in a massive hospital system in my home state, and I get to meet a lot of PDs, attendings and residents who can help me match there. At the end of the day, we all did this to have a job afterwards.