Medical Student Handbook

Completion of Required Experiences in Year of Planned Graduation

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School policy mandates that all specifically required clerkships and other experiences (eg, emergency medicine, neurology, etc.) must be completed by April of the year of planned graduation to allow for adequate time to receive evaluations and to complete any possible remediation before graduation. Note: the policy does not prevent students from taking electives in May to fulfill the total credit requirements for graduation.

In the Double Helix Curriculum, this requirement includes the successful completion of any individualized learning plan connected to enhancing relative weaknesses identified by the Comprehensive Assessment (CA). In almost all cases, the plan will include the completion of some specified clerkship before graduation. The date by which that specified requirement must be completed will also be April of the final year.

While the CA is a formative exam to identify strengths and weaknesses, the development and completion in a timely manner of the individual learning plan that comes out of the CA is, in fact, a requirement for graduation, and a factor taken into consideration for promotion and graduation.

(Approved by The Curriculum Steering Committee May, 2000)