Deadlines will be specified as to when the videotapes must be returned. Health professionals in other disciplines and biomedical engineers are eligible to take the course. The School of Medicine currently conducts Preceptorship Programs in Primary Care, General Internal Medicine, Family Medicine and Pediatrics as part of the Medical School curriculum. The curriculum is designed to provide the scientific and clinical background to prepare graduates for the practice of medicine. Most of the basic science courses are taught in the first two years.
Students attend clerkships during the third and fourth years.
The Senior Year consists entirely of electives. As part of the School's commitment to produce more generalists, a 3-year course is integrated into the required medical school curriculum. Students may elect a rural health experience which places them in rural communities throughout the state. This is not a reality to date, but is an area of great need and would benefit the student, faculty and medical communities in educational programming and administration of the program for scheduling, counseling and evaluation purposes. It would also be possible to deliver continuing medical education to the preceptors if network connections were made available and access to resources were granted in reciprocation for their time and energy in training our students.