Rotation Placements?
Has anyone else at their PA program experienced being assigned rotations in areas where they didn’t have housing, even after submitting location preferences? Just frustrating cuz some students were placed in areas they specifically said they didn’t want or couldn’t live in, while other students who actually had housing in those areas weren’t assigned there. It’s created a lot of confusion about how placements are decided. We were also asked to fill out preference surveys beforehand, which is part of why many students are feeling disappointed with the final assignments. Many people received electives they didn’t request while some received lower-ranked choices instead of specialties they were genuinely interested in.
I’m also curious how common it is for programs to assign core rotations like Family Medicine or General Surgery as electives even when students didn’t request them as elective choices.
Also factoring in housing/transportation cost, it gets super expensive.
I’m trying to see the bright side and understand whether this is just a normal part of clinical year logistics. Has anyone else experienced something similar? How much input did you realistically have in your rotation locations and elective selections?