Clerkships

This policy is intended to protect medical student confidentiality and provides restrictions on requests for and use of College of Medicine – Tucson (COM-T) undergraduate Medical Education Data for research and program improvement purposes. Data requests must be submitted to and approved by the Accreditation & Analytics Office. Medical Education Data must be used in a manner that protects student confidentiality.

Although rarely granted, students who wish to change their clerkship rotation site after assignments have been made may only apply for a change of site if they have an extreme hardship. Requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Students must complete a Change of Clinical Site form and submit it to clerkship program coordinator

This policy establishes guidelines and procedures for attendance and absences during all phases of the Medical Student Curriculum:

Preclerkship Phase:   This curriculum phase of study is defined as the first 18-months of medical school with focus on the 8 basic sciences core courses, Doctor & Patient/Societies course, and the Clinical Reasoning course, including all Pathways to Health and Medicine curriculum sessions intertwined throughout the core courses.



Clerkship Phase:  This curriculum phase of study is defined as the 12-months of 8 core clerkship courses, including Intersessions, Transition to Clerkships, and ambulatory medicine course.  



Transition to Residency Phase:  This curriculum phase of study is defined as the final 14-months of clinical curriculum, including core subinternship, electives, surgical subspecialty, emergency medicine/critical care clerkship, Application of the Basic Sciences to Clinical Medicine course. 

Manual provided to instructors for the clerkship program

The MD curriculum is designed through educational principles that are distinctive to the program. This faculty adopt these principles to ensure medical students will be well prepared for advanced study in any clinical discipline.

Technical Standards Evaluation Policy

To provide students with guidelines for examining patients in a sensitive physical exam.

Policy governing the procedure for student assignment to instructional clinical sites.

This policy outlines the expectations for medical student use of Electronic Medical Record systems they interact with in the clinical setting.

Establishes policy requiring that health professionals who provide psychiatric/psychological counseling or other sensitive health services to a medical student must have no involvement in the academic assessment or promotion of the medical student receiving those services, excluding exceptional circumstances.