Where are the programs clinical rotation sites and how are students matched with sites?
The program requires each student to do 40 weeks of clinical experiences. These include eight weeks each in internal medicine and family medicine, four weeks each in obstetrics and gynecology, behavioral medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine and general surgery, and a four-week rotation period in which the student elects the topic. These rotations take place mostly in Virginia with some in immediately adjacent states. Students must be able to travel and relocate frequently during the clinical year. Students do not choose the sites or the order in which the rotations occur. The faculty assigns students to rotation sites and also determines the students’ schedules. Several months before students begin the clinical rotation portion of the curriculum, they provide information to the clinical coordinator about personal factors that they would like considered when the clinical coordinator makes the assignments for rotations. There is no guarantee that the coordinator will be able to accom
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