Thursday, July 10, 2008

Finding Electives - Case Study SUNY Downstate Brooklyn

I've found that many people give up when they can't find what they are looking for online. A great example is when I was looking for the clinical rotation information for SUNY Downstate Hospital in Brooklyn, NY. Their information and application was buried so deep on their Registrar's site that I would have never found it.

I proceeded to submit a general email inquiring where I could find information on electives for visiting students and was directed to a non-functioning URL. It was obvious from the URL that the information should have been in the Registrar's site. I eventually found all of the information I was looking for by digging through the site.

As always, this information was immediately posted to my Clinical Rotation Finder application. The AAMC website does have SUNY Downstate on its list to help you find clinical electives as a visiting student, however, only has the contact person and not the related URLs.

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