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Composition of the Electives Program
2008-2009 Academic Year

20 week (credit) Requirement

  1. No more than 8 weeks of clinical electives in any one subspecialty discipline will count towards the 20 week graduation requirement.

    The following fields are counted as subspecialties:

    Anesthesiology, Dermatology, Emergency Medicine, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Otolaryngology, Pathology, Psychiatry, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Radiation Oncology, Radiology, Plastic Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Urology, Medical and Pediatric Subspecialties (e.g. GI, ID, Cardiology, Rheumatology, Heme-Onc, etc.).

  2. No more than 8 weeks of away (extramural) clinical electives will count towards the 20 week graduation requirement.

  3. No more than 8 weeks of research electives will count towards the 20 week graduation requirement. Research elective credit only gets counted as research — it does NOT get counted toward the subspecialty or extramural maximums.

  4. No more than 4 weeks of senior credit will be granted for non-clinical based electives. Specifically, students may not exceed taking 4 weeks of History of Medicine, Biomedical Ethics, CBL case writing, Literature and Medicine, etc…

    Please note: Students are permitted to register and take additional electives over and above the 20-week elective requirement. Students who wish to take more than 8 weeks in any one subspecialty, research or wish to participate in more than 8 weeks of extramural electives may do so by registering for extra elective weeks.

    Students are strongly encouraged to use their senior year of medical school to broaden their knowledge base as general physicians by taking electives in fields different than those that they will ultimately practice.