Year III Clinical Curriculum …and other essential information The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Year III Clinical Curriculum

…and other essential information

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Special Issues

• Hepatitis B immunization status– must complete series by 7/1/077/1/07– provide documentation to student

health– if you fail to do so, must sign a waiver

• OSHA Recertification- Mandatory– Must be completed on Blackboard by

April 15April 15

• HIPAA Certification-done in Year I

Special Issues

• IV-Phlebotomy training sessions– Dates to be announced

Third Year Curriculum and Scheduling

• SEVENSEVEN Core Clerkships, SIXSIX completed during the third year

Medicine(8wks)Surgery: (8wks)Pediatrics(8wks)Primary Care (8wks)Psychiatry(8wks)Obstetrics and Gynecology(8wks)Neuroscience(4wks)/Elective-

Vacation(4wks)

Must be completed YIII

Internal Medicine Must Be Completed in the Third Year

• All 8 weeks are done on the inpatient services

• 2 one month rotations– one month at GWUH– one month at Fairfax, or the

VA

Primary Care

• 8 week clerkship

• 2 clinical sites, 2 days per week for 8 weeks– Internal medicine faculty

practice in ACC– Community practices in

IM/Peds/FP– Community clinic practices-

various sites– Primary care apprenticeship

revisit if desired/feasible

Psychiatry

• 2 one month rotations

• Mostly inpatient sites– CNMC- child/adolescent units– 6-South GWUH– St. Elizabeth’s Hospital– Northern Virginia Mental Health

Institute– Psychiatric Institute of Washington– Arlington Hospital

OB/GYN

• 2 One month rotations

• Sites– GWUH

– Fairfax Hospital

– Holy Cross Hospital

Surgery Must Be Completed in the Third

Year• One month of General Surgery

– GWUH– Holy Cross Hospital

• 2 Two week surgical subspecialties– Orthopedics, ENT, CT, Peds

Surg, Urology,– Anesthesiology (space

available basis)

Pediatrics

• One month of inpatient service– Children’s National Medical Center– Anne Arundel Hospital– Holy Cross Hospital

• One month of outpatient– various CNMC clinics– various community/private

practice offices

NeuroscienceElective/vacation

• Neuroscience (4 wks with Multiple options)

– Adult or pediatric neurology

– Adult or pediatric neurosurgery

– A mixture of two of the above

Vacation/Elective4weeks

• 2-4 weeks of an approved elective (most)– (Not EMED)

or • 2-4 weeks of vacation

– If you take all as elective, you have 1313 weeks of vacation in year 4.

– If you take 2 weeks as elective, you have 1111 weeks vacation in year 4.

– If you take no elective, you have 99 weeks of vacation in year 4.

Important Dates/Issues

• Mandatory Orientation– July 2nd ALL DAY– July 3rd ALL DAY

• Vacation – two week winter break

12/14/07 through 1/1/08

– one week spring break 4/18/08 through 4/27/08

– Up to four additional weeks if you select neuroscience/elective/vacation block

Guaranteed Holidays

• Labor Day

• Thanksgiving – Thursday and Friday– NOTNOT Saturday and Sunday

• MLK Day

• President’s Day

• Memorial Day

Scheduling Clerkships

• Step 1: Clerkship Order LotteryMarch 19th - March 29th Enter preferences for ORDER

of 6 clerkships

• Step 2: Site Match LotteryApril 9th -April 19thEnter preferences for SITES

within clerkships (not Primary Care or Neuroscience)

Special Strategies(it really doesn’t matter!)

However, if you want………

• Don’t schedule ‘hard’ rotations back to back (eg. surgery, internal medicine, OB)

• Don’t schedule things you think you are interested in first or last

Why do Neuroscience Clerkship in Year 3 instead of Year 4?

• If you think you might be interested in neurology or neurosurgery as a career choice

• If you want elective time to try out other specialties that you don’t see in Year 3 (eg. Radiology, Surgical specialties, Pathology, etc. but NOT emed)

• If you need more vacation time in year 3 for something (eg. Weddings, babies, etc.)

Disadvantages of Doing Neuroscience in Year 3

• You commit yourself to an 8wk clerkship during the 4th year that must be completed by Jan/Feb of your senior year

• It could “clutter” up important parts of Year 4 (eg. Specialty surveying, application period, extramural electives, interviewing, board study, etc.)

POM III/IV

• POM III is composed of 6 full day sessions during the year, one during each clerkship block.

• POM III/IV requires a ‘research project’– start in Year III– finish at time of POM IV in

Year IV (March)

The EEEEE’s• E-value

– An electronic program designed for multiple purposes including tracking the diagnosis of patients you are seeing and procedures you are performing

– An LCME requirement!

• Evaluations of Clerkships– Provides invaluable information– Has resulted in many curricular

changes over the years

• Evaluations of Students– Shelf exams/Practical

exams/quizzes– Faculty evaluations

Clerkship Evaluation Form

• Cognitive Skills• Clinical Skills• Information Presentation• Professionalism

– Honesty/Integrity– Responsibility/Reliability/

Dependability– Teamwork– Empathy– Commitment to Competence and

Excellence– Respect for Patients

• Global Rating

What else do you want to know?