General Clerkship Requirements

National Board Subject Examination: Last Friday of the clerkship at 9:00 AM in the Small Auditorium.

The minimum standard for passing Medicine 5000 is:

1. 70% or better on each clinical evaluation with satisfactory narrative comments.

2. A raw NBME Subject Test of 60 equaling an MCG converted test score of 70% or better.

3. Recommendations for remediation will be made on an individual basis depending on the nature of the deficiency.

Students are required to turn in 3 H&P new patient work-ups representing his or her work for each four weeks to the clerkship director's office.

Students are required to turn in his or her patient log for each four-week rotation.

Students are required to turn in one ethical dilemma for the medicine clerkship. For example, if a resident wants you to tell the attending that the CBC is pending when it was done. How are you going to handle the situation. The ethical dilemmas should be turned into the clerkship coordinator, where it will be recorded, omitting the student's identity, and turned in to Alan Roberts, MD to discuss at the Ethical Dilemmas Noon Conference.