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[Veronicacronica]

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Hi,

I have to choose between 2 months each of IM and FP, plus EM and peds at Bronx-Lebanon and the rest elsewhere OR
all cores at Staten Island University Hospital with 2 months of IM at Bronx-Lebanon...

Any experiences, opinions, or votes for either scenario would be MUCH appreciated.

Thanks 🙂

 

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Hi,

I have to choose between 2 months each of IM and FP, plus EM and peds at Bronx-Lebanon and the rest elsewhere OR
all cores at Staten Island University Hospital with 2 months of IM at Bronx-Lebanon...

Any experiences, opinions, or votes for either scenario would be MUCH appreciated.

Thanks 🙂

What do you want to get out of the experience? They obviously have different patient bases, Staten Island being relatively suburban for a NYC borough. My big question would actually be housing, where do you live now? Is housing provided? Getting to and from Staten Island is about a big a pain in the neck as you can imagine. There's no real way you can live on the island and make it to Bronx-Lebanon every day or live in the Bronx and make it down to Staten Island without going completely insane.

 

[Veronicacronica]

What do you want to get out of the experience? They obviously have different patient bases, Staten Island being relatively suburban for a NYC borough. My big question would actually be housing, where do you live now? Is housing provided? Getting to and from Staten Island is about a big a pain in the neck as you can imagine. There's no real way you can live on the island and make it to Bronx-Lebanon every day or live in the Bronx and make it down to Staten Island without going completely insane.

I'd probably live in Brooklyn...AND have to buy a car if I go the Staten Island route...I honestly don't have a particular field in mind that I'd be networking for during my cores but I want, hands-down, the one option that will give me the better educational experience. Staten Island University Hospital has a Level 1 trauma center and I've heard it's a good teaching hospital...But BL is more "renown" overall, or so I hear.

It's a tough call, but if I do go for SIUH for 8 months and then do 2 months of IM at BL, I'd sure as hell have to figure out how to arrange my living situation (Brooklyn to the Bronx).

If I go with BL for 6 months or so of peds, IM, FP, and EM...I'd have to do Surgery and OB in Jamaica most likely. It'd mean a few months of going to that other hospital.

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PS: To answer you Q, housing is NOT provided and I'm paying up the wazoo to live in a more "modest" Manhattan neighborhood.