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.