The Clerkship phase spans the second 18 months of medical school and includes eight core clinical clerkships. Our commitment to advancing public health is demonstrated through our rigorous approach to shaping and strengthening students’ educational experiences.

Transition to Clerkship course

You will prepare yourself further for clinical clerkships with a course dedicated to essential knowledge for success in the clinic. Topics covered include:

• Hospital survival skills
• Presentations in ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, general surgery, dermatology, family medicine, internal medicine, neurology, ECG, and more
• Musculoskeletal physical exam skills
• Evidence-based medicine (EBM)
• Innovation in medicine
• Procedural skills
• Communication skills
• Working in interdisciplinary healthcare teams

Required clerkships

• Emergency medicine. This four-week emergency medicine clerkship in emergency medicine provides you with a broad mix of patient encounters spanning age and acuity. You will have opportunities to improve and refine your history and examination skills, as well as learn to recognize the ill patient and triage those patients with a heightened potential for severe illness.
• Family medicine. This four-week family medicine clerkship aims to provide a challenging and empowering clinical experience embedded in the family medicine doctor/patient relationship. You will learn to identify patients' expectations for their visit, conduct a relevant and focused history, and explore patients' psychosocial context and illness experiences.
• Internal medicine. This eight-week internal medicine clerkship will take you from an information-gatherer (reporter) to an interpreter of data, a skill needed in order to diagnose illness and develop an individualized treatment strategy. After this rotation, you should be familiar with complex shared decison-making and ready to manage patients with multiple co-morbidities in whichever field of medicine you later practice..
• Neurology. This three-week neurology clerkship provides medical students with a comprehensive and immersive experience in the evaluation, diagnosis, and management of primary neurological disorders and neurological presentations of systemic disease.
• Obstetrics and gynecology. This six-week OB/Gyn clerkship consolidates your foundation of knowledge of Women’s Health and maternal-fetal medicine to allow you to take an active part in the care of gynecologic and obstetric patients..
• Pediatrics. This six-week pediatrics clerkship is a mixture of inpatient and outpatient experiences, covering child health from birth through early adulthood. Our goal is for you to have a truly immersive, educational, and formative experience where you appreciate the unique nature of the medical care of children.
• Psychiatry. This four-week psychiatry clerkship centers around  an inpatient psychiatric experience complemented by acute mental health assessment, outpatient treatment experiences and an extensive didactic program. 
• Surgery. This eight-week surgery clerkship will acquaint you with the general principles of care for the surgical patient. You will interview, examine, and do the initial write-up on selected patients, participate in daily patient care, and scrub for operations that are being performed on the patients under your care.