Graduated patient care responsibility, based upon monitored performance, is a central theme of our clinical instruction. An additional requirement of the Clinical Core Program is a month-long rotation in the surgical subspecialties. The elective rotations may include approved learning experiences elsewhere in the United States or abroad. Many students see this as an opportunity to work and study in an urban setting or at another medical school or foreign medical center. Students should anticipate spending variable periods of time away from Burlington in the course of pursuing their required training.
Some students use elective time to pursue research activities.
Faculty advisors counsel each student on an individual basis throughout the planning and course of the selective program and in anticipation of later graduate education. Although the majority of students elect to pursue a clinical selective program, students so desiring may commit the program to study in one of the basic sciences. While these programs are individualized, it is expected that related graduate study and research will form the basis for each. Following acceptance into the medical college, qualified students may simultaneously enroll in the Graguate College for a Master of Science or Ph.D. program. All students participate in a program which fosters appropriate knowledge, skills, and attitudes of computer literacy and information acquisition and management.