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Sarah,

I actually just went through this. Yes, you have to do the paperwork and request from ACGME and their approval to add this site to your list. It was easy, just have to give the educational rationale for adding the site.

Chris Tutsch, C-TAGME
University of Kentucky

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More materials from the PDC presentation.

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Are you asking about surveying the student about the rotation after they complete the sub-i rotation? Or evaluating the student performance on the rotation?

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Hi,

I attached the eval we use for our visiting students, I hope this helps. Have a good day!

Barb

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Hello!

We use MedHub for all clerkship evaluations. I send these to each faculty after the rotation is complete. The students have the option to add others to evaluate them as well. I have attached the template.

Please let me know if the attachment doesn’t go through and I can send via email.

Thanks,
Courtney

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I am glad this was posted as I was just keeping my experience to myself but will contact the AAOS. I have very bad Asthma and walking through the casino to get to The Towers was just awful. I asked for a non-smoking room, yet the people next door were smoking marijuana (which I know is legal there) however, it was coming into my room. I had the spot lights on the side of the hotel coming right into my room all night. I as well smelled the moldy smell in the hallway. Thank you ladies for this information.

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I had to change room the next day because the smell was terrible, like humid not mold. The second room the smell was different, not as bad as the first. The condition of the bathroom on the second room was not good, the tub had a couple of cracks and chipped and there was black mold between the tub and on the tile.

I agree with Tica, not worth the money.

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The conditions at the Tropicana were not worth the money spent. There was no refrigerator in the room. Normally, there would be amenities in the room which we did not have. The bathroom looked dirty when we first walked in and outdated and you can hear the toilet flush from the adjacent room which I have never experienced before. I understand it is a casino and people smoke, but the ventilation was horrible especially for someone like me that has asthma. I would not recommend this hotel to anyone.

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Yes, we have an oncology rotation, 3 months in the PGY3 year. The physician is our primary tumor surgeon and does adult reconstruction as well.

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Carol!!!
We heard you! This will be a topic of our round tables a the ARCOS Conference in Las Vegas. We will also touch on it during the New Coordinator Session that anyone is invited to attend. Please email me at llewis8@wellspan.org if you want more details about either!
~Laurel

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Yes, we have a rotation during our PGY4 year that is recon/oncology. The physician is a part of our department faculty but practices outside of our institution.

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I am the Residency and Fellowship (2) Coordinator. We just went through our 10 year site visit and we received a citation for not having an additional person.

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From my PD…This is a broad question with more than one answer. A person who has not matched needs to identify the short-coming and remedy it, be it research, interview skills, performance and LoR, etc.
Most overcome this with a year of research. Some improve their package with a surgical internship and strong letters of recommendation. Some do other degrees (phD, masters, MPH, etc).

Artina

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My PD read this over and contributed the following info:

-I would recommend for the unmatched applicant complete a year of research over general surgery. Reason for this, this shows me their determination in sticking with ortho rather than the possibility of switching programs. I will look at an application of a previously unmatched applicant and see what they have done to advance themselves in the world of orthopaedics even if they did not match into it initially. I also believe if they are taking a high risk chance of trying again to get into ortho, they are very committed to becoming an orthopaedic surgeon. I appreciate their perseverance.

Hope this helps. I tend to agree with Laurel in that I personally think a GS year is particularly helpful in developing surgical skills required. Either way, in my personal opinion, the ones we have accepted into our program that had to wait a year to try again, are some of the more outstanding performers in that they were able to gain a bit of life experience before getting into Ortho.

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