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.
The Office of the Registrar will register the students for a generic clerkship block called CORE 3A . This clerkship block will be assessed 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 semester. All clerkships are worth 5 semester credits. Students are required to participate in their six remaining CORE Clerkships , including FMED 303 Core Ambulatory Medicine. The Office of the Registrar will register the students for a generic clerkship block called CORE 3B .