Third Year Clinical Rotation Descriptions:

DO CLIN 801) Psychiatry/Community Mental Health:

Four weeks focusing on the evaluation, intervention and management of the psychiatric patient. Emphasis is placed on the medical student learning the triage and community integration of treatment models treating the patient in the setting close to home rather than the inpatient psychiatric hospital. This month will offer the integration of the inpatient psychiatric treatment model with the goal of community treatment and placement for the mentally ill patient.

DO CLIN 802) Internal Medicine I:

Four weeks of training in the hospital setting leading to a foundational understanding of general medical problems in the adult male and female patients. This precedes and represents a requirement for Internal Medicine II.

DO CLIN 803) Internal Medicine II:

Four weeks of training as IM I with the same objectives. Increases the consolidation of educational goals by providing continuity of environment and faculty found in IM I.

DO CLIN 804) Obstetrics/Gynecology:

Four weeks of training in the inpatient or outpatient setting to become familiar with the care of medical and surgical issues related to the female genitourinary system. This will include the evaluation and care of the pregnant patient for prenatal, delivery and post-natal period.

DO CLIN 805) General Surgery:

Four weeks of training in the hospital setting under the supervision of a hospital based general surgeon(s). This will include the evaluation, surgical intervention, consultation and follow-up of the adult male and female population.

DO CLIN 806) Pediatrics:

Four weeks of clinical training in the outpatient and/or inpatient setting. The student will learn to take an appropriate history for male and female patients from birth to age 16. Emphasis will be placed on preventive health management for evaluation of growth milestones as well as immunization strategies. Identification of the acutely ill patient will be integrated into the experience.

DO CLIN 807) Family Medicine:

Four weeks of training with a family physician where the full range of preventive and acute care of male and female patients of all ages is experienced. The role of preventive health care, triage and specialty referral process are included as an essential part of the experience.

Selectives

Third and fourth year Selective Physician Rotations are sites designated by the Office of Clinical Sciences. Each student will be assigned to one physician/physician group to follow and work with faculty throughout their schedule of clinical activity. All physicians will be approved clinical/adjunct faculty of the College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Office of Clinical Sciences. The third-year offering of selective rotations will be anywhere within a maximum of approximately 60 mile radius of their particular hospital core site. The Office of Clinical Sciences will offer a pre-approved set of rotation sites from which the students may choose the required Selective Rotations. Site evaluations are collected and reviewed. Selective rotations will include: Surgical, general medical and all others.

Electives

Elective facilities and physicians may be selected by the medical students. All selections must be approved by the Department of Clinical Medicine, although there is no restriction on the location of such experiences. These experiences are meant to offer the opportunity to gain insight and experience into the vast array of personal medical education experiences particular to each student’s interest. It may also be time used in exploring residency training opportunities. These preceptors may or may not hold a designated clinical/adjunct faculty appointment. Site and evaluations are collected and reviewed. An individual physician must be responsible for the student during this rotation.

Vacation:

Four weeks of vacation is allowed in each of the 3^rd and 4^th clinical years. These may not be used for clinical clerkship or preceptor experience unless specifically approved by the Office of Clinical Sciences. Vacation may be used as a requirement for remediation.

Fourth Year Clinical Rotation Descriptions:

DO CLIN 901) Community Hospital I

Four weeks of clinical training, and direct involvement in a small hospital setting. This experience consists of two rotations in an affiliated community hospital. Each clinical rotation is a one-month primary-care clinical experience designed to further develop the concepts of diagnosis and management and to develop decision-making and cognitive skills related to patient care.

DO CLIN 902) Community Hospital II

Four weeks of clinical training with direct involvement in a small hospital setting. This experience consists of two rotations in an affiliated community hospital. Each clinical rotation is a one-month primary-care clinical experience designed to further develop the concepts of diagnosis and management and to develop decision-making and cognitive skills related to patient care. This is intended to immediately follow Community Hospital I.

DO CLIN 903) Emergency Medicine

Four weeks of training offered with a pre-requisite of completion of the entire third year of training prior to entry. Students will be educated in the initial evaluation and stabilization of the acutely ill or traumatized patient. Education of the triage process at the entry into the Emergency Department is included in the experience.

DO CLIN 904) Rural Primary Care (FM or IM)

Four weeks of assignment to a physician representing the delivery of primary care FP or Primary Care Internal Medicine where the practice is located in a ambulatory clinic outside of the metropolitan statistical area. The student will be assigned to one physician to learn the problems that are unique to an area where higher level of consultative care and equipment or facilities are not available. This experience has the completion of the Third Year as a prerequisite.

Selectives

Third and fourth year Selective Physician Rotations are sites designated by the Office of Clinical Sciences. Each student will be assigned to one physician/physician group to follow and work with faculty throughout their schedule of clinical activity. All physicians will be approved clinical/adjunct faculty of the College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Office of Clinical Sciences. The third-year offering of selective rotations will be anywhere within a maximum of approximately 60 mile radius of their particular hospital core site. The Office of Clinical Sciences will offer a pre-approved set of rotation sites from which the students may choose the required Selective Rotations. Site evaluations are collected and reviewed. Selective rotations will include: Surgical, general medical and all others.

Electives

Elective facilities and physicians may be selected by the medical students. All selections must be approved by the Department of Clinical Medicine, although there is no restriction on the location of such experiences. These experiences are meant to offer the opportunity to gain insight and experience into the vast array of personal medical education experiences particular to each student’s interest. It may also be time used in exploring residency training opportunities. These preceptors may or may not hold a designated clinical/adjunct faculty appointment. Site and evaluations are collected and reviewed. An individual physician must be responsible for the student during this rotation.

Vacation:

Four weeks of vacation is allowed in each of the 3^rd and 4^th clinical years. These may not be used for clinical clerkship or preceptor experience unless specifically approved by the Office of Clinical Sciences. Vacation may be used as a requirement for remediation.