I n the third and fourth years, students have a wide variety of learning and practice opportunities at hospitals and ambulatory-care sites in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Their faculty is in private practice, community hospitals, and tertiary-care hospitals. The third year is devoted to required clinical clerkship rotations in medicine, family medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, and surgery. Students receive expanded ambulatory-care experience in the six basic disciplines.
Many students choose a discipline-specific pathway.
Others, who want a broad-based experience, choose the generalist pathway. All students have a pathway adviser who works closely with them. Pathways help students focus their preparation for graduate medical education and a career discipline. They also give students experience in fields of interest other than the one that is likely to be their career path as they continue their medical education. The pathway system is structured so that students take both required courses and electives.