The intern can expect to complete the year with solid general clinical training and a realistic sense of competence commensurate with this stage of training. The major rotation sequence focuses on the development of basic clinical skills. The intern may explore specialty areas through the choice of elective minor rotations and in outpatient work. The intern completes two major rotations, each lasting six months, and typically consisting of assignment to one inpatient unit. The intern spends approximately 32 hours per week in the major rotation.
Minor rotations are optional and are tailored to meet the individual intern's needs.
They are generally limited to four hours per week. Permission to do a minor rotation involves the joint approval of the intern's major rotation supervisor and the internship director. Minor rotations can be developed in virtually any area within the medical school. Minors offered in the past have included behavioral medicine, child and adolescent neuropsychology, off-site child and adolescent residential psychotherapy, sleep disorders, clinical research, and outpatient psychotherapy concentrations. All interns carry a limited outpatient caseload which provides an opportunity for longer term therapy than that permitted by six-month rotations.