El Centro Orientation Spring 2009

[thenurse86]

Students who are already in el centro/north lake program or newly admitted students for spring 2009:

Does any one know what they do at the orientation?

Also, when do they do lottery for clinicals for the first semester? Do they let you know available hospital options in advance?

Also please write any other tips for the orientation and the program in general.

Thank you so much for reading and responses.

[iippuu]

Hi!

I will be going to the El centro program for Spring 09. We just had our orientation the 18th. First was trying on the uniforms and ordering them, this was at 10am.

At 1:30, Kanora started to talk about books, what to do and what not to do in a hospital, etc etc. She had people from the bookstore explaning prices and dates to buy books, students talking about different organisations, etc. The lottery for the clinicals is almost at the end, I was lucky and got called 7th and got the hospital I wanted. There is normally 4 hospitals, we had Parkland, Baylor, RHD, and 2 VA to pick from. I picked Parkland . If you want to know which hospitals are in the list, go to econnect or look at the class schedule and under the name and section# is the name of the hospital.

We will have a 3 day orientation the 20, 21, 22 of January. this is when they will take fingerprints, drugtest, background check.