Post by msilvermd on Sept 20, 2005 9:20:13 GMT -5
The Savannah surgical rotation is in Memorial Hospital a few miles away from downtown Savannah. Students generally stay with a team for two weeks, then spend the next two weeks with a new team. There are four teams: trauma, colorectal, surgery oncology, and vascular. You will see surgeries associated with the subspecialty that you are on, but there is a good amount of general surgery cases on each service (like cholecystectomies on surg-onc.)
Lectures are given by the surgeons, which are required to go to by the students. The student must leave whatever they are doing and go to the lecture, even if you are scrubbed into a case. The lectures are great, because the group of students should only be about six, and they are very interactive. It is also the best time to speak with the surgeons. It seems to be the only time that they acknowledge your existence. During surgeries, it sometimes feels as though you showed up uninvited to their party. Feel honored if you get pimped during a case because that means that they realize that you are in the room. A lot of these surgeons have a thingyy attitude and blunt way of talking to students and residents and others below them in the heirarchy; just remember that they talk this way to everybody and it probably has nothing to do with you. In other words, don't take it personally.
The dorms are worth staying in. They are right on the campus of the hospital. If you are standing in the ER entrance, they are off to the right. What they lack in luxury, they make up in convenience. You are not guaranteed, but will get your own room. Each room has a sink, wardrobe, dresser, phone, lamp, two twin beds, and sheets and towels. On the hall: bathroom for each gender with washer and dryer, lounge with TV and internet, refrigerator, and microwave. No ovens or stoves, no wireless internet, no separate study room. There is a maid that makes your bed and gives you new sheets and towels. The dorm felt more like a monastery than a college dorm, unfortunately. Don't expect anybody to be milling around the dorm, getting a big group to go out.
Lectures are given by the surgeons, which are required to go to by the students. The student must leave whatever they are doing and go to the lecture, even if you are scrubbed into a case. The lectures are great, because the group of students should only be about six, and they are very interactive. It is also the best time to speak with the surgeons. It seems to be the only time that they acknowledge your existence. During surgeries, it sometimes feels as though you showed up uninvited to their party. Feel honored if you get pimped during a case because that means that they realize that you are in the room. A lot of these surgeons have a thingyy attitude and blunt way of talking to students and residents and others below them in the heirarchy; just remember that they talk this way to everybody and it probably has nothing to do with you. In other words, don't take it personally.
The dorms are worth staying in. They are right on the campus of the hospital. If you are standing in the ER entrance, they are off to the right. What they lack in luxury, they make up in convenience. You are not guaranteed, but will get your own room. Each room has a sink, wardrobe, dresser, phone, lamp, two twin beds, and sheets and towels. On the hall: bathroom for each gender with washer and dryer, lounge with TV and internet, refrigerator, and microwave. No ovens or stoves, no wireless internet, no separate study room. There is a maid that makes your bed and gives you new sheets and towels. The dorm felt more like a monastery than a college dorm, unfortunately. Don't expect anybody to be milling around the dorm, getting a big group to go out.