Surg Rotation Question

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I have the opportunity to do my surgery rotation in Brunei. (Our school has some sort of bilateral agreement with the Brunei govt) From the info from my school, it's a lot of hands on experience, all British-trained surgeons, but no exposure to cardiovascular surgery.
Question to you guys is, would it be detrimental not to see any CV surgery during a third year rotation, or is it not important at this stage of training?
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All I saw in my 3rd year surg rotation was pedi burns and pedi general surgery. it might affect your boards score (it did mine), but nobody can see EVERYTHING.

Star
 
I agree w/ Star. You can't and won't see everything there is to see in the medical field in 2 yrs of med school. Our surgery clerkship consists of 3 wks of general surg + 3 wks of a surg subspecialty or more general surg (Plus a couple extra wks of lectures and exams thrown in for fun. 🙄 ) CV is one of many possible specialties we can see. The point: don't decide against this opportunity because you won't see CV surg (unless it's a specialty you're serioulsy considering). Most of us won't.
 
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