First bolded: I think that's what pretty much anyone who's done rotations here will agree on. The hospitals in Orlando and Wichita are supposedly great and Michigan has more DO residencies than any other state, so they are both very DO friendly as a whole and have a lot of strong programs that DOs can work at/rotate through. WPB is a little hit or miss from what I've heard though. Some people love it, some people wish they went somewhere else. Part of it is that it's similar to KC in the fact that you travel a lot. One of our classmates' first rotation is an hour away from their core sites and she is staying in a hotel for the month of that first rotation.
I knew that a couple scrambled into Denver, but I didn't realize there was another person. I know Denver had the PE issues, but I was shocked it wasn't more popular with our class...
I've also heard KC is hit or miss. I'm here, and after talking to 3rd and 4th years apparently I got an amazing schedule, so I'm pretty pumped about that. I know some people apparently get screwed over, but I think most people will get 2-3 really solid rotations and the rest are just alright. I haven't heard to many people say anything really negative about the KC sites, but there's also a lot of them, so it's hard to gauge what your schedule will be like until you get it. One thing about the tracks to keep in mind: it will limit your experiences outside that field (sometimes significantly). If you're up in the air about what you want to do, don't do a track, as I've heard you just get stuck with whoever for your non-track rotations or end up not seeing other fields much. I'll also add that the tracks are still new and not concrete yet. Apparently we are no longer rotating at KU for surgery, and the surgery track people are pretty pissed about that now.
From what I understand we're pretty much on our own for electives. As long as we set them up 90 days before the rotation starts, we can do whatever we want. If we don't submit it in time, we just get assigned somewhere and have to do it. Along those lines though, some sites will have requirements that other sites don't. For example, one of the Florida sites (I think it's WPB, but I can't remember) requires their students to do a critical care rotation. I don't think that's common, but something else to consider before ranking the sites.
