| Quote (LisaS @ May 03 2002,16:23) |
| and on another aspect - what are your thoughts about the environment for medical students doing clinical rotations at a school where the residency program in an area is on probation - e.g. if OB/GYN is on probation at Med-U, what would the OB/GYN rotation be like? would it be impacted by the eflux of residents? should the status of residency programs associated with a medical school be remotely considered in application to that school as a medical student ? I know there is no connection to the quality of yrs 1&2, but what about 3&4 ? Lisa |
Hi there,
If your school wants to remain accredited, they arrange for you to do your OB-Gyn rotation elsewhere. In our case, it was at one of the Johns Hopkins affiliated hospitals. We actually turned out to have a better OB-Gyn experience now than when we had the department. That was a result of having a former department chairman who was more interested in making sure the medical students were taken care of even if he couldn't keep the residency program going with all of the in-fighting.
The Yale General Surgery Program is on probation and scheduled to be sacked for next year unless something drastic is done. While the General Surgery Program is having trouble, the medical school is not. I suspect that the leadership of the medical school and surgery will get things fixed so that Yale Surgery will continue.
Howard is taking some drastic measures even now with so many residency programs on probation. I know that they will fix their deficiences since their backs are to the wall. It is just a shame that it had to come to this. Many residency directors just refused to believe that their programs could fold. Time for reality check. With the AMA solidly behind limiting resident hours and cutting back on FMGs in programs, many programs are going to have to put out major money to attract American grads in order to continue.