Transition to Clinical Care

(1 Credit)

The Transition to Clinical Clerkships course is a weeklong introduction for rising pre-clerkship students who will start clinical rotations. Using multiple venues and formats, transitioning students participate in a brief synthetic retrospective review of core clinical skills and become familiarized with - their clerkship teaching faculty and clerkship content overviews - their curricular and para-curricular schedule, activities, responsibilities, and opportunities - the policies and procedures that guide daily operations in the clinical setting - EMR training - BLS/ACLS life support training The week culminates in a brief recommitment white coat ceremony.