sites (that I know. since some are new to me)
St John's Episcopal: Old hospital and it shows. In a poor area and it shows. This is basically your "oh you want to see a harlem community. here" hospital. Its in Queens by the queens/nassau border and its population may as well be harlems. Great to go to if you want to see 1) unusual pathology and 2) geriatrics. It has the highest geriatric patient population of any hospital in the US because of the number of nursing homes in that area of the city. I dont ever want to do IM, but I left there being a master of renal failure, stroke aftercare, and COPD management because those are diseases of the old and I can rattle off standard treatment for them without thinking anymore. Except for OBGYN, every department is *extremely* education oriented and also hands on. It seems counter-intuitive, but they have only a moderate census so you can both work as an intern would work and can still have enough time for significant time dedicated to reading or conferences. Overall a great choice if you can put up with the patient population. It is all DO residencies and except for derm and ophtho they are lower teir DO residencies, but there is nothing *wrong* with them. Derm and ophtho there are highly sougth after.
Trinitas: hear great things, but need to ask someone else. I didnt go there. Similar feel to St. John's in that it has a mid sizes patient census so you can get hands on while still receiving education. I cant comment on the balance of those things because I havent been there. I can say that their residencies are mid-level competitive and I imagine most people would be very happy to be there if they enjoyed their rotation there.
The "NJRMEC": A combination of about 6 hospitals that just opened up residencies this year in the AOA. I will be there in a few months, but since they didnt have residencies until now they were known for the short easy days where you work intensively with an physician and then were on your own to do whatever you wanted from there. Self driven learning was good for those who actually wanted to read a ton, or wanted to be lazy. I imagine its changing since they just dropped a residency core onto the hospital this year. (when you open a residency you can recruit for all PGY years, not just interns. Something I learned when this place opened them)
Staten Island University Hospital: Basically a major hospital but located in staten island. The experience is very similar to major hospitals where the hands on may be a little less than you'd like. As a student youre less a member of the team and more a student of the interns. You do a lot, but *occasionally* youre relegated down to a less vital position. On the other side, I hear the education here is the tops and you learn a ton. Its just your own personal sense of worth within the team is less. I havent been here, but there is a lot of overlap with SIUH rotators and SJEH rotators. So I saw plenty of people at St John's who gave me a decent grasp of the experience. Has residencies. They are low-end ACGME residencies but I hear their IM and Surgery department are extremely strong and are really wanting to integrate us into their department.
St. Lukes: we have a few rotations here. Psych and IM I think? Psych and OBGYN? OBGYN IM and Psych? Whatever it is... St. Luke's (and Roosevelt, its a two campus hospital) are great hospitals. I'm there right now for an elective. I can speak to what fields we go there for, since i clearly don't even know. But these two are fantastic hospitals and their residencies have a few touro students smattered in them (3 I think) and will probably take another 1 or 2 this year.
so he fits in that category too.
... This just makes my decision harder as to whether I would attend MSU (60k/year TUITION) or a school like TouroNY (60k/year EVERYTHING). Sigh...
