How to contact Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center to set up you medical student electives:
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
710 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032
Well known for its transplant program and its neurology department.  There is a busy ER.  It is a level 2 trauma center which can be upgraded to level 1 if necessary, but [...]

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How to contact Mayo Medical School to set up your medical student electives:
Mayo Medical School
200 First Street, SW Rochester, Minnesota 55905
Telephone Number: +1 507 284 3671
Fax Number: +1 507 284 2634
The Mayo Foundation and Mayo Clinic is the world’s largest group practice and the the medical school is an important part of it.  The clinics [...]

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How to apply for medical electives or externships at Mount Sinai School of Medicine:
Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York
Annenberg Building, One Gustave L. Levy Place
Box 1002, New York, NY
10029-6574
Telephone Number: +1 212 241 6696
Fax Number: +1 212 828 4135
Privately endowed and non-denominational, the school was founded in 1968. The [...]

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The University of Medicine and Dentistry medical school moved to Newark in 1977 to be part of a huge centre containing preclinical buildings, the University Hospital, an ambulatory care centre and a community health centre. East Orange VA, Hackensack University Medical Center, Morristown Memorial Hospital, the Children’s Hospital of New Jersey, the Kessler Institute and [...]

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Remember that these numbers are for gross salaries! This is not a net amount, which means that the take home salaries are much much lower!
Newfoundland and Labrador: $42,781
Maritime Provinces: $46,358.55
Quebec: $40,455
Ontario: $46,017
Manitoba: $43,273.17
Saskatchewan: $47,117
Alberta: $50,957
British Columbia: $48,565.20

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This is a huge hospital serving a large segment of Cape Town and the townships. All specialties are here. It has a level one trauma unity, which is busy seeing 35,000 cases a year, half deliberate acts and half penetrating trauma. This is mainly gunshots, stabbings, and car accidents. There is an acute arm – [...]

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For electives, apply to all the University of Cape Town hospitals via the university, but note that most elective places are filled up to a year in advance. The processing of applications can take several months. You may well be best writing to your destination first. If organised through the university, there is a fee [...]

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I can’t believe another year has gone by.  Not certain that I have made it to third year medicine but at this point I’m just happy that I wrote those exams without going through a nervous breakdown.  Prior to one of my exams I was reading an online article about Brandon Crisp, the boy who [...]

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These are the things that matter to me as a medical student:
1. Family
2. Food
3. Shelter
4. Friends
5. Money
6. Love interest
7. Working Out
1 provides 2 and 3.  Without 1 I’d be homeless and starving and would therefore be unable to continue my studies.  There’s a fine line between being a medical student and a drunken bum.  4 [...]

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Hey everybody, I’m in the process of relocating some of the files on this site. Don’t worry you’ll still be able to download USMLE prep materials, but it will be hosted on a different site. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I had no choice as my sites have been down for the past [...]

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