Students view residents as highly approachable role models. The residents meet with third year students at weekly Therapeutics Modules discussion groups. Residents also act as co-preceptors with faculty supervising fourth year students on clerkships. All residents are requred to complete a research project that is presented at the annual Western States Conference. Each resident is expected to submit a paper for publication.
Sessions are in small groups to enhance the learning experience.
Residents may volunteer to deliver formal lectures to classes of 160 students or more if they are interested. An important milestone for residents is to see their residency project get published. USC has been successful over the years in publishing data from these projects. Comparison of serum sampling methods for estimating gentamicin pharmacokinetic variables. Gentamicin penetration into diseased appendix tissue.