Questions about Rotations

[Doctor4Life1769]

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I was looking through requirements for certain programs that visiting students must do before being able to rotate at their program for 4th year.

I am interested in Anesthesiology. I have my cores 2nd semester of 3rd year. This means I have 4 months of electives and selectives, 1 month of FP, and 1 month vacation.

My core allows us to do 8 weeks of IM, 4 weeks gen surg., 4 weeks of OB/Gyn, 4 weeks of psych, 4 weeks of peds.

I was looking at Mayo's site and apparently they require 8 weeks of IM, surg, OB/Gyn, Peds. How common is this for other programs? I haven't seen specifics like these at other programs but am I missing something here?

Since I want to Anesthesia, this kind of screws me - as it's tough to find something related to that field during 3rd year, especially with my cores being the 2nd semester of year 3.

My rotation schedule is Vacation, FP, IM-selective (Ambulatory MSK Medicine), Surg-selective (CT Surg), Elective, Elective.

My current Elective interests are Radiology and Pulm/CC. I picked Rads b/c it's something that has also caught my eye and Pulm/CC would allow me some way of interacting with Anesthesiologists. However, with this requirement that Mayo has, I'm thinking I may have to switch to Peds and OB/Gyn, what's your take on this?

Thanks for any and all help!

 

[JenHeart]

I've been looking into my electives for next year as well... having minimum requirements has been quite rare in my search.