Clerkship comprises the last two years of the four-year MD Program. Clerkship is an integrated learning experience that enables you to further develop the knowledge, skills and professional attitudes introduced in Foundations, as you learn to care for patients effectively, efficiently and humanely. This is achieved through practical application in clinical settings as part of a health care team. As clerks, you learn to master patient care, both in hospital and at community-based clinics and doctors’ offices.
The Faculty's goals are to facilitate learning, to stimulate curiosity, to promote independent thinking, to encourage compassionate, excellent care, and to equip students for a lifetime of education.
The clerkship curriculum will allow you to attain the competencies outlined in the MD Program Competencies. The specific learning objectives of each course in clerkship describe how they individually contribute to the fulfillment of these overall goals and objectives.
Clerkship is 75 weeks long, and is divided into third year (50 weeks) and fourth year (25 weeks). In the third year of clerkship, students participate in a rotation-based clerkship.
For a description of the design of the curriculum for third and fourth year, please refer to the MD Program Academic Calendar.