Comments on: One Week Down, 3.5 More to Go http://www.islandmedstudent.com/home/2009/06/05/one-week-down-35-more-to-go/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:35:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: The Island Med Student http://www.islandmedstudent.com/home/2009/06/05/one-week-down-35-more-to-go/comment-page-1/#comment-636670 The Island Med Student Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:24:31 +0000 http://www.islandmedstudent.com/home/?p=1183#comment-636670 Actually, it's not as good as it seems! We actually end up having the same amount of required clinical weeks of rotations. Here is the requirement: "Ninety (90) weeks of clinical rotations are required for graduation. This includes Advanced Introduction to Clinical Medicine, which is twelve (12) weeks in length. Forty-eight (48) weeks of core rotations and thirty (30) weeks of electives are required. Within the thirty (30) weeks of electives, eight (8) weeks must be Medicine sub-specialties and four (4) weeks must be Surgery sub-specialties." However, we have a trimester curriculum for the basic sciences. This means that we don't get a "summer vacation." I began med school in August of 2006. I began my clinical rotations in January of 2008, and I will finish around February of 2010. It's the same number of weeks. I just started earlier! I know, it can be confusing. :) Actually, it’s not as good as it seems! We actually end up having the same amount of required clinical weeks of rotations. Here is the requirement:

“Ninety (90) weeks of clinical rotations are required for graduation. This includes Advanced Introduction to Clinical Medicine, which is twelve (12) weeks in length. Forty-eight (48) weeks of core rotations and thirty (30) weeks of electives are required. Within the thirty (30) weeks of electives, eight (8) weeks must be Medicine sub-specialties and four (4) weeks must be Surgery sub-specialties.”

However, we have a trimester curriculum for the basic sciences. This means that we don’t get a “summer vacation.”

I began med school in August of 2006. I began my clinical rotations in January of 2008, and I will finish around February of 2010. It’s the same number of weeks. I just started earlier!

I know, it can be confusing. :)

]]> By: janelle http://www.islandmedstudent.com/home/2009/06/05/one-week-down-35-more-to-go/comment-page-1/#comment-636636 janelle Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:02:34 +0000 http://www.islandmedstudent.com/home/?p=1183#comment-636636 That seems weird, you only have 9 months of rotations in 12 months? I don't get the curriculum of island schools at all! We have 12 months of rotations in 1 year, and we don't get vacations. Lucky you! That seems weird, you only have 9 months of rotations in 12 months?
I don’t get the curriculum of island schools at all! We have 12 months of rotations in 1 year, and we don’t get vacations. Lucky you!

]]> By: The Island Med Student http://www.islandmedstudent.com/home/2009/06/05/one-week-down-35-more-to-go/comment-page-1/#comment-636468 The Island Med Student Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:55:12 +0000 http://www.islandmedstudent.com/home/?p=1183#comment-636468 Janelle, You have it correct. Those are the rotations I have completed. Technically, I still need to do peds and ob/gyn (cores). Normally you would do those in your 3rd year, but because I wanted to stay at one hospital, it sort of messed up my schedule a bit. I say I am in my 4th year because I only have 8 months of rotations to complete, and I will be graduating and matching in the spring of 2010. So, for all practical purposes, I am a 4th year. :) Janelle,

You have it correct. Those are the rotations I have completed. Technically, I still need to do peds and ob/gyn (cores). Normally you would do those in your 3rd year, but because I wanted to stay at one hospital, it sort of messed up my schedule a bit. I say I am in my 4th year because I only have 8 months of rotations to complete, and I will be graduating and matching in the spring of 2010. So, for all practical purposes, I am a 4th year. :)

]]> By: janelle http://www.islandmedstudent.com/home/2009/06/05/one-week-down-35-more-to-go/comment-page-1/#comment-634703 janelle Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:27:33 +0000 http://www.islandmedstudent.com/home/?p=1183#comment-634703 Hey, will you post a list of what specialties you have completed? I didn't realize you were already going into 4th year, but I feel like you have only done: surgery, psych, family med, IM, GI and radiology? Is this right? Hey, will you post a list of what specialties you have completed?
I didn’t realize you were already going into 4th year, but I feel like you have only done: surgery, psych, family med, IM, GI and radiology?
Is this right?

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