Surgery experience.
Hello everyone,
My experience with Chicago Clerkships is the following.
Surgery as everybody knows, is very difficult to get real "hands-on" experience. The "hands-on" experience offered is merely doing H&P's, that in my opinion is good for those who are going to take Step 2 CS soon, but for others is not. Otherwise, you can practice anywhere in your country with anyone that can speak English and can follow a script. No real hands-on experience due to the difficult getting it in the United States in general.
My experience was not the best, because the first rotation they did not give me what promised, the second was ok due to the doctors, great persons but just outpatient clinic and the third, outpatient with students and honestly, I would not recommend it and specially for the price. Probably for others specialties is ok, but fur Surgery is not. I recommend writing to faculty members in university programs and get some observers. More valuable because the rotation is in an university affiliated hospital and the LORs are from recognized US Surgeons and not just a letter to fullfill the requirements. And also, you can get the rotations for free in some of the universities. I did that, and I matched so probably you can benefit from my opinion.