Foundations of Clinical Care Launch Week

School of Medicine

FCC Launch Week is a week of highly relevant, clinically driven content designed to better prepare students for success in their clerkships by enhancing their practical clinical skills around the interface of laboratory-based medicine with patient care. This week serves as the transition from pre-clinical learning to the clinical environment for VUSM students. Designed to prepare students to be successful on the clerkships from the first day, the course will review the practical basics of the medical students' role in patient care. This will be achieved by balancing foundational clinical medical knowledge with practical, skill-based insights. Topics will vary from high yield radiology sessions to applicable laboratory sessions to student-to-student guidance to hands-on skills boot-camps to exciting case competitions. FCC Launch Week is an interactive, fast-paced curricular foundation that will set medical students on the pathway to clinical success.