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1) For the most part, yes, you definitely are treated like part of the team for most rotations. That being said, especially as a new 3rd year, you'll almost always have an intern or resident double-checking your work (i.e., both you and the intern pre-round on the patient). As you get into 4th year, you usually gain a little more independence, especially as a sub-i. I've been on some consult services as a 4th year where the fellow/resident won't pre-round on the patients that I'm following, which is nice. On some of the super-subspecialties (e.g., neurosurg, ophth, anesthesia, IR, etc.), you will like only be shadowing or doing very minor things, as most of the care for these patients is above and beyond your level of training; the rotations are mostly for exposure. As crappy as it sounds, your job as a medical student is to make your intern/resident's life easier. On medicine and surgery floors especially, med students will often be updating sign-out, making appointments, or calling social work. Bottom line, you should be following your own patients under the supervision of an intern/resident on the majority of rotations.A few questions for current Jeff students (@Doctor Strange):
1) During your 3rd and 4th years, did you feel like you were a part of the patient care team (vs. just an observer)? Another school at which I interviewed really emphasized how the 3rd/4th year students feel like an integral part of the team at their clinical sites, and I am wondering if it is similar at Jefferson.
2) Given that Wills Eye is a top notch ophtho hospital, would you say that there is an advantage to going to Jeff for someone who might be interested in ophtho? I hear this a lot for ortho at Jeff but am wondering if it is the same for ophtho.
3) Do you know if the distribution of scholarships and loans in the financial aid package remains relatively consistent throughout the four years (e.g., if I got some scholarships in my package for year 1, can I expect that it might be the same in the future years, or do they tend to give out more/less in the upper years?)
Thanks so much!
2) Yes. We generally match ophtho extremely well.
3) Yes, the school-based grants are constant. Any government grants (e.g., Scholarship for Disadvantaged Students) are subject to change.