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Dual Degree students are enrolled as full-time graduate students. Students will take a rigorous course load at an accelerated pace in order to complete as much degree progress in two semesters as possible.
Distinction students are expected to spend 40 hours a week between their distinction project, professional development related to their distinction project, and their Dell Med coursework.
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MS3 Intersessions
Intersessions take place three four times in the third year (August, October, January, and AprilMarch) on Fridays. Attendance is required for all third year medical students.
Primary Care, Family & Community Medicine Clerkship
The Primary Care, Family & Community Medicine Clerkship is a two-year, longitudinal clerkship that runs through the second and third years of medical school. This clerkship is the only required clinical work during third year and requires one half-day per week. Students are responsible for scheduling and modifying their clinic schedules as they see fit with their preceptors. This may include varied schedules from week to week. Students are responsible for negotiating the timing of the shift so it does not conflict with other ILD responsibilities. Attendance is primarily tracked through regular completion of patient logs.
During the MS3 year, students will attend their primary care clinic site once a week excluding intersession weeks and holidays. The specific day every week that the student attends clinic can be arranged with the preceptor.
Because students’ schedules vary during the MS3 year, there is some flexibility around the weekly clinic requirement, but all alternative schedules MUST meet the following criteria:
- The student attends clinic for a total of 28 clinic sessions or 112 hours over the year, AND
- The student attends clinic at least once every 4 weeks from September through May. For example, students have the option of attending clinic for a full day every other week or 2 full days every 4 weeks.
- The student requests the alternative schedule by email to the preceptor and the Clerkship Directors at least 6 weeks in advance.
- The preceptor and Clerkship Directors approve the alternative schedule.
Since this is the only required clinical experience in the MS3 year, the minimum frequency of every 4 weeks is required in order to maintain students' clinical skills and promote patient continuity. If students are required to be off-site for an academic reason (i.e. a global health research project) and feel that the above criteria represent an undue burden, you may request an exception via email. Note that LCME requires that all core clerkships be completed domestically, so remote precepting arrangements will not be permitted.
There is one objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) for the clerkship during the third year. It will take place over the course of three Saturdays in the month of November (students have the ability to choose which Saturday they wish to take the exam).
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The foundation of the third year Leadership course is service learning. This course will allow students to practice serving in leadership positions within the Dell Medical School community, with opportunities for feedback and reflection. The design of this course allows students to both practice and demonstrate their personal leadership philosophy in medical education and health systems. The required number of service hours for the year is no less than twenty (20). Students are responsible for scheduling and logging their own service hours over the course of the year via CanvasOne45. While there are several different leadership service experiences; , students must choose one service learning opportunity to pursue over the year and this opportunity must not be in conflict with their ILD program schedule.
United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 2:
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CS (Clinical Skills)
From April to May, each student must sign up for an 8-hour multi-station clinical skills assessment. Students should sign up for a time that works around their existing schedule. Travel to specially-designated sites is required and the student may be out of town for 2 days. Houston is the closest testing location at this time.
Multi-station OSCE (CPX)
From April to May, each student must sign up for an 8-hour multi-station clinical skills assessment. The students should sign up for a time that works around their existing schedule.
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