Four months of electives are included in the fourth year. For those students interested in rural practice, a rural tract program will be offered. Third and fourth year clinical clerkships are done at designated training sites around the country. Locations include the Kansas City metropolitan area, Missouri rural sites, and locations in Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Florida. Assignments to sites are determined by a lottery process conducted in the second semester of the second year curriculum.
Students complete the core clerkships during the third year at their designated site.
All of the clerkships except the electives need to be done at UHS core sites or sites with training programs. The Office of the Registrar will register the students for a generic clerkship block called ROTA 4A during the fall term. This clerkship block will be assessed a minimum of 30 semester hours of credit and will later be detailed to the specific course level when the Office of Community Clinical Education submits the final grade rosters at the conclusion of the fall semester. The Office of the Registrar will also register the students for a generic clerkship block called ROTA 4B during the spring term. This clerkship block will be assessed a minimum of 20 semester hours of credit and will later be detailed to the specific course level when the Office of Community Clinical Education submits the final grade rosters at the conclusion of the spring semester.