Clerkship Phase & Advanced Training Period Policies, Procedures & Guidelines
These policies, procedures, and guidelines apply to the Clerkship & ATP phases of the MD Program, and this list is provided for attestation purposes. You can also view all policies, procedures, and guidelines by topic.
Applies to Clerkship | Applies to ATP | Topic | Policy Title & Link | Short Summary |
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Yes | No | Attendance | Attendance on clerkship, elective and sub-internships is required. This includes both clinical activities
and didactic seminars. Outlines criteria for acceptable absence. | |
No | Yes | Attendance | Attendance on clerkship, elective and sub-internships is required. This includes both clinical activities
and didactic seminars. Outlines criteria for acceptable absence. | |
Yes | No | Assessment, Remediation and Appeals | Clerkship directors provide comprehensive and challenging knowledge assessments as part of the clerkships | |
Yes | No | Assessment, Remediation and Appeals | Faculty are responsible for meeting with students at the beginning, middle, and end of the rotation to set performance expectations and provide feedback before submitting the final evaluation. | |
Yes | Yes | Assessment, Remediation and Appeals | Students have a right to appeal a failed course assessment, unsatisfactory remediation, or narrative commentary. | |
Yes | Yes | Professionalism and Academic Learning Environment Policies | Procedure once a student expresses concern about or appeals an evaluation or narrative. | |
Yes | Yes | Professionalism and Academic Learning Environment Policies | YSM is dedicated to maintaining an environment which places the highest priority on collegial relationships, mutual respect, and sensitivity among students, faculty, staff, and patients. | |
Yes | No | Assessment, Remediation and Appeals | Process if a student has not completed the requirements of the clerkship. | |
Yes | Yes | Professionalism and Academic Learning Environment Policies | Faculty must disclose to students any personal or financial conflicts of interest involving the topics they are presenting when teaching. | |
No | Yes | Assessment, Remediation and Appeals | Details of elective & sub-internship evaluations. Note the grading rubric is not the same as clerkships. | |
no | Yes | Learning Environment, Supervision & Student Safety | Visiting student eligibility criteria and registration process. | |
Yes | No | Learning Environment, Supervision & Student Safety | Outlines who is responsible for providing supervision of medical students in all clinical areas to ensure
quality education as well as patient and student safety. | |
Yes | Yes | Learning Environment, Supervision & Student Safety | Guidelines for student use of EHR. Students may access the charts of their team's patients for purposes of patient care and educational assignments, only. Outlines restrictions. RESEARCH access must be in accordance with IRB-approved protocol. | |
Yes | Yes | Assessment, Remediation and Appeals Forms | Example of the Faculty Evaluation of a medical student evaluation form. | |
Yes | Yes | Learning Environment, Supervision & Student Safety | Students must adhere to the same Work Hours limits put forth by the ACGME for interns. Link in policy. | |
Yes | Yes | Assessment, Remediation and Appeals Forms | Example of the Faculty Evaluation of a medical student evaluation form. | |
Yes | No | Assessment, Remediation and Appeals | Faculty are required to provide feedback to students at the half-way point of each clinical rotation. | |
Yes | No | Assessment, Remediation and Appeals | Specifies the course & clinical narrative requirement. | |
Yes | Yes | Assessment, Remediation and Appeals | No faculty member who is ever involved in a student's personal health care should be in a position to evaluate them. | |
Yes | Yes | Assessment, Remediation and Appeals | Process for addressing case of suboptimal student behavior/performance and the flow of information to medical education leadership. | |
Yes | No | Graduation Requirements | Procedure for students to challenge their educational record. | |
Yes | Yes | Learning Environment, Supervision & Student Safety | Reports of harassment, mistreatment, bias and/or work hours violation will be addressed by course directors & department chairs with involved faculty; dept responses are reviewed by EPCC. Faculty and staff are mandated reporters for sexual harassment. | |
Yes | Yes | Professionalism and Academic Learning Environment Policies | This policy outlines in detail the expectations for student professionalism at YSM. | |
Yes | No | Assessment, Remediation and Appeals | After any period of longer than one year in which a student has not engaged in meaningful
clinical activity, students must engage in a clinical “warm-up” elective prior to entering clerkships. | |
Yes | No | Assessment, Remediation and Appeals | Students who have not engaged in clinical experience for longer than one year, and students who are absent for any significant period of time prior to starting third year,must engage in a clinical “warm-up” period prior to entering clerkships. | |
Yes | No | Assessment, Remediation and Appeals | Procedure when a student is struggling with clinical reasoning, communication or professionalism. | |
Yes | Yes | Attendance | Attendance on clerkship, elective, and sub-internships is required. This includes both clinical activities
and didactic seminars. Outlines criteria for acceptable absence. | |
Yes | Yes | Learning Environment, Supervision & Student Safety | Faculty must train all graduate students and post-doctoral fellows to teach in the pre-clerkship curriculum. | |
Yes | Yes | Assessment, Remediation and Appeals | Clinical evaluations of students are expected to be completed within 30 days of the completion of the clerkship. | |
Yes | Yes | Professionalism and Academic Learning Environment Policies | Faculty responsibility to report any activity that could be a potential harm to other people that occurs in the context of a person's professional, medical or
academic duties. | |
Learning Environment, Supervision & Student Safety | Yale School of Medicine provides supervision of medical students in all clinical areas to ensure quality education as well as patient and student safety. | |||
Yes | Yes | Graduation Requirements | The Progress Committee annually reviews student performance and receives reports of unprofessional behavior or instances of poor academic achievement. Based on its review of a student’s record, the committee can change the status of the student to help them meet the expectations of the school. | |
Yes | Yes | Graduation Requirements | The Progress Committee will systematically review all medical students at four intervals on their progress towards completing the MD degree. | |
Learning Environment, Supervision & Student Safety | Exposure to Infectious and Environmental Hazards Policy | Yale School of Medicine seeks to prevent medical student exposure to infectious and environmental hazards though education and use of appropriate procedures and engineering controls and provides prophylaxis therapy if students are exposed to infectious agents. |