I am a medical student at SABA...Does anyone have any information on setting up Clinical Rotations (on your own, w/o school help) in the States?
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Setting up your own Clinical Rotations?
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I'm sorry I can't respond to your question, but I do have one of my own for you- I am thinking about attending Saba next year, I was wondering how you liked it? Also, have you found setting up your own clinicals for 4th year to be problematic?
SABA is great. The island is very laid back and conducive to studying. I have been here for almost a year, not once have I locked my door. The education, well it is at par or above when compared to the rest of the schools in the Caribbean. But as I am sure you are aware, medical school is going to be what you make of it! If you are happy with passing the boards, you will just pass here, if you want to do well, you have to do well here. I had the opportunity to go to all the schools in the Caribbean, but I chose SABA for 1 very important reason. During the 3rd and 4th years your clinicals are gaurnteed in the US. There is no problem at all with getting good clinicals in the States, the only problem is getting them in NY. As it stands only 1 rotation can be done in NY, unless you can set them up yourself, hence my question. But other than that, the school is excellent. We have transfers from AUC and Ross every semester. Any other questions let me know...
K
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Hi...
Although my school has formal affiliations with some US schools, I preferred setting them up myself at other sites. My first step was to decide what areas of the country I wanted to be in, or what programs were of most interest. Then I looked up the web sites of each school/program I was interested in for information regarding visiting student electives. The information fell into several groups...
1) none; had to resort to writing to these
2) stay away if you are an IMG (although we are "happy"to receive a residency application from yo?)
3) apps from IMGs taken for those with faculty sponsor
4) no restrictions
Once I had my list of probable candidates, I simply contacted the school for an application and information. For some schools I essentially "cold called"and asked faculty to sponsor me. Sometimes I never heard back (Ortho seemed to be the worst offenders), other times I got a cautious reply but mostly was roundly accepted.
Almost all schools will require the following:
application (+ or - fee)
evidence of malpractice insurance
evidence of personal health insurance and up to date immunizations
letter of recommendation/approval from your school
Most will state that you will be notified after their own students have registered. Despite this, I got all the electives I requested and didn't have to wait long to hear.
For schools in NY, you are required to have a letter of approval from the state which requires you to apply to them with a fee (around $30 as I recall) and to have taken and passed Step 1 (or have significant reason why not). Too much trouble unless you are really desparate to get there.
Hope this helps.
Although my school has formal affiliations with some US schools, I preferred setting them up myself at other sites. My first step was to decide what areas of the country I wanted to be in, or what programs were of most interest. Then I looked up the web sites of each school/program I was interested in for information regarding visiting student electives. The information fell into several groups...
1) none; had to resort to writing to these
2) stay away if you are an IMG (although we are "happy"to receive a residency application from yo?)
3) apps from IMGs taken for those with faculty sponsor
4) no restrictions
Once I had my list of probable candidates, I simply contacted the school for an application and information. For some schools I essentially "cold called"and asked faculty to sponsor me. Sometimes I never heard back (Ortho seemed to be the worst offenders), other times I got a cautious reply but mostly was roundly accepted.
Almost all schools will require the following:
application (+ or - fee)
evidence of malpractice insurance
evidence of personal health insurance and up to date immunizations
letter of recommendation/approval from your school
Most will state that you will be notified after their own students have registered. Despite this, I got all the electives I requested and didn't have to wait long to hear.
For schools in NY, you are required to have a letter of approval from the state which requires you to apply to them with a fee (around $30 as I recall) and to have taken and passed Step 1 (or have significant reason why not). Too much trouble unless you are really desparate to get there.
Hope this helps.
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Sparhawk (or anyone else who cares to answer),
I did think of a couple questions for you:
1) Why is there a difference between the length of clinical traning between the different schools ie. Saba has 72 wks where SGU has 80. 2) Why are you setting up your own clinicals, I thought the school would do that. Are all their clinicals in teaching hospitals? Thank you!
I did think of a couple questions for you:
1) Why is there a difference between the length of clinical traning between the different schools ie. Saba has 72 wks where SGU has 80. 2) Why are you setting up your own clinicals, I thought the school would do that. Are all their clinicals in teaching hospitals? Thank you!
I will try to answer...
As for the 3 of weeks difference, that is up to the school. U.S. schools's have 72 weeks, like SABA. The school does set up rotations in the US for the students. And all of your core rotations are in teaching hospitals. I wanted to set up rotations on my own because I want to be in NY. SABA does not have that many affiliates (spelling?) in NY. Anything esle, just let me know...
As for the 3 of weeks difference, that is up to the school. U.S. schools's have 72 weeks, like SABA. The school does set up rotations in the US for the students. And all of your core rotations are in teaching hospitals. I wanted to set up rotations on my own because I want to be in NY. SABA does not have that many affiliates (spelling?) in NY. Anything esle, just let me know...
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