Medicine Clerkship

The Medicine Clerkship is an 8-week clinical experience in the core clerkship year. In this clerkship, students will develop their ability to function as a caring, increasingly independent clinician while supervised on a multi-professional team. Students will learn clinical medicine while working side-by-side with teams of residents and/or faculty providing care to a cohort of inpatients. This direct patient care experience is complemented by a unique enrichment in which students also work in small groups with a clerkship director and hone essential clinical skills (including intermediate-level communications skills, physical diagnosis, and clinical reasoning). Students also attend conferences that focus on core topics. The clerkship is divided into two mini-blocks of 4 weeks each, and most students spend time at 1 or 2 of our clinical sites.