A Harvard medical student frets about choosing where her 3rd year clerkship is going to be. The one wrinkle is a new “longitudinal approach” that Harvard is taking, where all the rotations are at one hospital.
Get some perspective.
Harvard medical students are choosing between Massachusetts General Hospital, BI/Deaconness, and Brigham and Women’s. That’s like being forced to choose between a Porsche, Mercedes or a BMW.
Relax, you’ll do fine wherever you end up.
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All three hospitals are within easy walking distance of the med school.
That could have played a role in the decision to have the students work at the above 3 mentioned hospitals.
Actually, Massachusetts General isn’t within walking distance from HMS.
But really, that shouldn’t be a consideration in this decision.
K
The obvious answer is to choose the hospital closest/most accessible to where you live.
Oh, and so much for Harvard choosing the best and the brightest. LOL.
Harvard Med = affirmative action whore.
“That’s like being forced to choose between a Porsche, Mercedes or a BMW.”
More like being forced to choose between a Suzuki, Kia, or Hyundai. A Harvard medical degree and $5 will buy you a latte at Starbucks.
“Harvard Med = affirmative action whore.
# posted by Anonymous : 5:03 PM”
Oh my goodness!! Sounds like poor baby didn’t get accepted to the biggie med school!
KEVIN QUOTE:
“Actually, Massachusetts General isn’t within walking distance from HMS”
You may not have been alive during the big blizzard we had in the Boston area during the 1970s, when the buses and subways stopped running.
I made many a trip by foot between the MGH and Harvard Med School during this storm. Lots of people did and we lived to talk about it.
Isnt Harvard Med the same affirmative action whore school that admitted that female MD/PHD student who failed her boards and sued for extra time to do her breastfeeding?
Does Harvard medical school still have fewer female students than male?
Do you remember when Harvard University was so anti-feminist they refused to remove the male pee-pots from the women’s bathroom.
lookie now! Harvard has a female president.
What next?
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