One might think that having the world’s #1 trauma center on the list of clerkships would be a serious student’s dream come true, but it turns out that all that history and experience means that everyone has their job and it’s more cut and dried than many people realize, among other things.
So, if you really want some trauma experience, you might go for a clerkship at an underfunded big city knife-and-gun club.
Of course, there are always the groups of students who share lists of clerkships that have minimum duty expectations. And, the number one justification there is that “they’re not trying to match in it, so what’s the point?”