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Hello all,
I am sorry to ask a probably stupid question, but I thought I would do it anyway! I am a midwesterner who would like to do some surgery away electives next year. In looking on the ACS programs website, all of the programs look great to me, which is a dilemma.
However, USC's surgery program especially stands out to me with their emphasis on serving the underserved in the area. However, it seems that a majority of this population is Spanish speaking and I unfortunately do not speak any foreign languages. I know that this will probably not be too much of an issue on an elective surgery rotation, but I just wanted to make sure that I would not be slowing everyone down. That, however, is assuming that I will be talking to the patients at all because coming from a small school I might have a very skewed perception of what medical students actually do in other areas!
Thanks for any input.
I am sorry to ask a probably stupid question, but I thought I would do it anyway! I am a midwesterner who would like to do some surgery away electives next year. In looking on the ACS programs website, all of the programs look great to me, which is a dilemma.
However, USC's surgery program especially stands out to me with their emphasis on serving the underserved in the area. However, it seems that a majority of this population is Spanish speaking and I unfortunately do not speak any foreign languages. I know that this will probably not be too much of an issue on an elective surgery rotation, but I just wanted to make sure that I would not be slowing everyone down. That, however, is assuming that I will be talking to the patients at all because coming from a small school I might have a very skewed perception of what medical students actually do in other areas!
Thanks for any input.