please help....

[alenushka]

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Dear friends,

Please forgive my ignorance but I need some urgent help. I am a student at a foreign medical school and this summer I will be entering an internal medicine residency in US. My concern is that because I was never exposed to the environment of a US hospital it will be difficult for me to integrate into the system. For a while now I’ve been searching for “observerships” in US hospitals and was able to find one but it is not in internal medicine, it is in PM&R! In my country, the department of PM&R is quiet isolated from the General Medicine department – general medicine receives and manages all the acute admissions, while the PM&R people get involved at a much later stage of the process, when most “medical” issues are already taken care of. If American medical system model follows similar approach, it may make little sense for me to spend a month on a PM&R floor in hopes of preparing myself for internal medicine residency. The thing is, I have no clue on what the interplay between internal medicine / PM&R in American hospital looks like. I would really appreciate some advise on how to proceed in my situation – should I try the PM&R observership or should I continue looking for a general medicine one??? Thank you for your help!

 

[whorubigman]

continue looking for a general medicine one

 

[picolo]

hi ,
just out of curiosity , where could you get observership in PM&R ? i tried some programs but i couldn't 🙄
and i think these two are really different , better to find a medicine observership.

Dear friends,

Please forgive my ignorance but I need some urgent help. I am a student at a foreign medical school and this summer I will be entering an internal medicine residency in US. My concern is that because I was never exposed to the environment of a US hospital it will be difficult for me to integrate into the system. For a while now I’ve been searching for “observerships” in US hospitals and was able to find one but it is not in internal medicine, it is in PM&R! In my country, the department of PM&R is quiet isolated from the General Medicine department – general medicine receives and manages all the acute admissions, while the PM&R people get involved at a much later stage of the process, when most “medical” issues are already taken care of. If American medical system model follows similar approach, it may make little sense for me to spend a month on a PM&R floor in hopes of preparing myself for internal medicine residency. The thing is, I have no clue on what the interplay between internal medicine / PM&R in American hospital looks like. I would really appreciate some advise on how to proceed in my situation – should I try the PM&R observership or should I continue looking for a general medicine one??? Thank you for your help!

 

[alenushka]

Thank you guys!

Picolo, check out this website http://spauldingrehab.org/body.cfm?id=265 -- it has all the information you need to apply for this observership. I wish I could find something similar for Medicine but so far -- nothing..

 

[whorubigman]

i don't know, but perhaps you can go to the internal medicine departments of various residency hospitals IN PERSON and try to talk to the chairs/chiefs. hopefully, this'll work for ya...

Thank you guys!

Picolo, check out this website http://spauldingrehab.org/body.cfm?id=265 -- it has all the information you need to apply for this observership. I wish I could find something similar for Medicine but so far -- nothing..

 

[picolo]

thanks alenushka ,,,
i did observership in medicine last year ,it wasn't easy to get it , but i think you have to go to different programs in person .
good luck

Thank you guys!

Picolo, check out this website http://spauldingrehab.org/body.cfm?id=265 -- it has all the information you need to apply for this observership. I wish I could find something similar for Medicine but so far -- nothing..